Questions / answers / ways of thinking
“My style is conversational and usually irreverent, but I write my stories with an open heart.”— Carleigh Baker / Scout Magazine
VOICE / PROCESS / PLACE / READING / TROUBLE
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THREE CONVERSATIONS / ONE MOVING PRACTICE
INTERVIEW BY Thalia Stopa
“My style is conversational and usually irreverent, but I write my stories with an open heart.”
A generous, local conversation about absurdism, writing beyond autobiography, responsibilities to place, naming mental illness, and where to find a good martini.
INTERVIEW BY James Kendrick
“I admire stories that are confident and not trying to please everyone.”
On judging unfamiliar work, the origins of writing, surviving rejection, conservation as colonial logic, and the difficult breadth of a positive story.
INTERVIEW BY Nikki Hillman
“People are wonderful, complex chaos machines.”
A compact conversation about Last Woman, overheard lives, ageing, loud humour, creative risk, and why unsubtle times may require unsubtle measures.
PEOPLE ARE
WONDERFUL,
COMPLEX
CHAOS MACHINES.
THE MALAHAT REVIEW / JAMES KENDRICK
“Spend time with a piece of writing if it’s unfamiliar or makes me feel uncomfortable, and ask myself why.”
A conversation about taste-making and gates, brave style, resilience, land, and the responsibility to sit with work that does not immediately recognize you.
Read at The Malahat Review ↗DIRECT SOURCES / NO AGGREGATION