My novel has shifted to become its own creature—it’s no longer something that belongs only to me; now that it’s out there it’s finding a shape of its own. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Martha Anne Toll
The Tragic Beauty of Dance: Q & A with Gavin Larsen
I am such a private person that as I was writing, if I had allowed myself to think about other people reading my work, I would have had to stop. But now, I just have to put that anxiety aside. And trust that baring my soul on the page is no different from doing so on stage. Continue reading
Bridging the Gaps: Q and A with Cassandra Lane
Memory is fluid and complex and difficult to judge. I love the idea of a tapestry of memories about the same event. Somewhere, in the middle of this woven quilt of memories, is the truth. Or many, many truths. Continue reading
Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card
“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading
Making Funny Things Into Art: Q & A with Sari Rosenblatt
by Martha Anne Toll
“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading
Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
by Martha Anne Toll
“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading
On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading