Maureen Stanton knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer and made writing a book one of her life goals. “But it wasn’t until I was […]
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An Interview with Gila Pfeffer, Author of SCN’s 2024 Gilda Prize Winner—Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences
Breast cancer is not a laughing matter. Or is it? Perhaps you don’t know Gila Pfeffer, author of the memoir Nearly Departed: Adventures in Loss, Cancer, and Other Inconveniences. winner […]
Read MoreBrittney Corrigan on How Poetry Can Reach Readers in New Ways
SCN member Ellen Notbohm interviewed Brittney Corrigan about her fifth poetry collection, Solastalgia (2023, JackLeg Press).* Brittney is the author of the poetry collections Daughters, Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks, and […]
Read MoreAn Interview with Mariam Pirbhai
Author of Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, 2024 Sarton Winner in Nonfiction After winning the Sarton Award for nonfiction for Garden Inventories, Mariam Pirbhai wondered what May Sarton, […]
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Author of Almost Family, 2024 Sarton Winner in Contemporary Fiction It’s fiction and not autobiographical, but Almost Family, Ann Bancroft’s winning novel in which a fictional character is suffering from stage […]
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Author of TRACES, the 2024 Sarton Winner for Historical Fiction What prompted Patricia Hudson, the author of this year’s Sarton Award winner for Historical Fiction, to write Traces was the […]
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