The Wednesday interview

Reading time: About 4 minutes Martha Bátiz says she’s never afraid or ashamed of early drafts. “They are the rock that you’ll slowly shape into a statue,” she says….  Martha Bátiz  is an award-winning writer, translator, and professor of creative writing and Spanish language and literature. She is the author of five books, including the […]

Reading time: About 2 minutes Maryann Kerr likes to live by the Annie Dillard quote, “How you spend your days is how you spend your life”…. Maryann Kerr is a leadership consultant who has dedicated her career to the social impact, nonprofit, and charitable space. She is an author and advocate for social impact sector

Reading time: About 2 minutes Halina St. James endorses the quote, “There’s no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.” Halina St. James is a former international TV News journalist from Canada, whose assignments included Iraq during the first Gulf War, the Romanian Revolution, and three Olympic Games. When she retired from journalism, she

Reading time: About 1 minute Paige Gant says that writing even 10 bad words is far better than not writing at all…. Paige Gant is a writer living in Vancouver, Canada. She holds a BA in English and History from Simon Fraser University (SFU) and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio (SFU). Paige has

Reading time: About 2 minutes Writer Beni Xiao urges writers not to adopt the voice of previous generations, but to write so that current-day audiences can understand what they are saying.  Beni Xiao is an artist and author of Bad Egg (2017, Rahila’s Ghost Press). They are queer, trans, disabled, and Chinese. These identities provide

Reading time: About 2 minutes Andrew Binks says that having the chance to ruminate, without being connected to any device, helps to make him a better writer…. Andrew Binks is the author of two novels, Strip (Nightwood Editions, long listed for the Lambda awards) and The Summer Betweeen (Nightwood Editions). He holds an MFA in

Reading time: About 2 minutes Josée Bergeron says that spending time outdoors every day is essential to her creative process…. Josée Bergeron is a French-Canadian Indigenous Métis mother of five (ages two to 17) and the founder of Backwoods Mama, a nature-based parenting community. Originally from the northern interior of British Columbia and now based

Reading time: About 3 minutes Kristi Spence strongly believes that writing is not linear. All writers have good days and bad days — and that’s the gig, she says. The writing doesn’t do itself.  Kristi Spence is a mom, learner, scientist, writer, runner and philosopher. In her weekly Substack newsletter, Noticing, she spends time exploring

Reading time: About 2 minutes A.H. Kim says that having an accountability partner helps her to get her butt out of bed and into a chair every day…. A.H. (Ann) Kim is an immigrant, mother of two sons and a rescue pup, long-time cancer survivor, community volunteer, and happily retired attorney. Ann is the author

Reading time: About 2 minutes The motto Michelle Yang used when writing her memoir was: “It’s not about what happened to you; it’s about how you survived.”  Michelle Yang is an advocate whose writings on Asian American identity, body image, and mental health have been published in NBC News, CNN, and InStyle. She’s been featured