Hedgebrook Authoring Change – Interview of Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Tell us about your work as a writer—do you write in multiple genres/forms? Sadly, yes. I’m a self-taught writer, so every time I write a book, I have to teach myself to write all over again, and it’s...
View ArticleThe Bookshelves of Hedgebrook by Ayobami Adebayo
When I was packing for my Hedgebrook residency, I chose four big novels and two anthologies to see me through the month I was to spend on Whidbey Island. I haven’t left the house without a book since I...
View ArticleA Safe Space in Tuscany By Katrina Woznicki
It’s not easy to sell off the last of your stock holdings, the very last thing you bought in your own name years ago, back when you were flush and earned a healthy bimonthly paycheck. Yet that’s...
View ArticleKathleen Alcalá
In 1989, I was asked to interview Nancy Skinner Nordhoff about her new endeavor, a writing retreat for women. We spent part of a day talking. I think we drove from Seattle to Whidbey together, so she...
View ArticleSacred Conversation
My friend Alison Townsend and I frequently evaluate how our days and weeks have gone based on whether we have “kept the appointment with the desk,” as she calls the time we spend writing. It’s not so...
View ArticleOde to a Hedgebrook Woodstove
Dark sturdy cradle of spark and crackle Embossed with fishers of words We prod, fan, blow For that breath of warmth Spark of idea Flare-up of phrase Sap bursting with flicker, crack, hiss Till...
View ArticleStoryknife
1989 I was busily engaged in sending novels to New York agents and watching them return like little homing pigeons. That spring a story appeared in the local paper about a retreat for women writers on...
View ArticleHOLLOW KINGDOM
Q and A with Kira 1.)What inspired you to start writing? I’ve always loved writing. The first story I ever wrote was about an overweight dragon (it’s possible I peaked too soon?). I ended up attempting...
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