Ten Questions for Justin Torres

“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
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“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
“Celebrate the small victories!” —Isle McElroy, author of People Collide
The author of Wine People explores how conducting interviews can inform narratives and characters.
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
The author of Wine People offers an exercise in getting to know your characters.
“Just keep listening to the work, one poem at a time.” —Heather Lanier, author of Psalms of Unknowing
The author of Wine People considers how a more expansive understanding of setting can deepen a story.
“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions
“I think that’s so much of the pleasure of writing for me, the opportunity to be fearless on the page.” —Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
“Don’t trap yourself into false models of production and worth.” —Edgar Kunz, author of Fixer