Category: Interview (page 14)

BackStory: Five Questions with Nick Lord Lancaster Author of On The Ethics of Book Burning What inspired you to write ‘On the Ethics of Book Burning’? The piece actually describes a true story. I bumped into it one day while…

BackStory: Five Questions with Charmaine Wilkerson Author of Balm What inspired you to write ‘Balm’? I’ve been working on a novel about a woman with a hidden past and I find that the characters from this longer work have been…

BackStory: Five Questions with TM Upchurch Author of There Will Be No Lace What inspired you to write this piece? I was researching 20th century adoption, reading about a “mother and baby home” that operated from the late 18th century…

BackStory: Five Questions with Madeline Anthes Author of Declaration What inspired you to write this piece? I often write about women being trapped in some way – by a relationship, by emotion, by nostalgia, etc. In this case, I wanted…

BackStory: Five Questions with Gary Duncan Author of Thrice Around the Walls of Troy What inspired you to write “Thrice Around the Walls of Troy”? I’ve been fascinated by The Iliad since I read it in high school and later at…

BackStory: Five Questions with Fiona J. Mackintosh Author of Postbellum What inspired you to write this piece? That’s a long story. I have spent many years researching the lives of an Anglo-Tahitian royal family in the 19th and early 20th…

  BackStory: Four Questions with Becca Borawski Jenkins Author of You May Hear of a Killing Who are your favourite historical fiction writers (flash or otherwise)? I tend to read mainly non-fiction history, but I love when it is shared in…

BackStory: Five Questions with Jude Higgins Author of Send Him Victorious What inspired you to write this piece? It was inspired by a black and white 1930s photograph of two children playing at the shore while a boat came in.…

BackStory: Five Questions with KM Elkes Author of Two by Two What inspired you to write “Two by Two”? I was on a staycation, sitting at home listening to rain hammering down outside and wondering why I wasn’t somewhere warmer,…

BackStory: Five Questions with Amy Slack Author of The Bathtub What inspired you to write this piece? “The Bathtub” was inspired by a visit to the Mining Art Gallery in Bishop Auckland late last year. I’d wanted to learn more…