Author of the Month: Farah Ahamed
“Fiction writers need, aside from an imagination and self-discipline, a strong sense of self-belief.” Farah Ahamed, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for April, talks to Cecilia Greco.
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Spotlight Poet: Ryan Van Winkle
“Often, I’m writing to myself or to a loved one, I’m writing to a small worry, a tiny sense of an idea…” Continuing his Virtual Book Tour, Ryan Van Winkle talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Poet of the Month: Jarkko Tontti
“In general, creative writing needs rules and constraints, ways to more or less artificially limit the unlimited options available to the writer.” Jarkko Tontti talks to Camille Ralphs in the latest instalment of our Poet of the Month series.
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Poet of the Month: Arup K Chatterjee
“My writing can only be in response to writing. Often I even suspect I am only rewriting what others have written before me.” Arup K Chatterjee, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Rosario Freire.
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Author of the Month: Zoltán Böszörményi
“I could not give a clear resolution. I did not intend to do so. I did not consider myself a judge.” Zoltán Böszörményi, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for March, talks to Constance A. Dunn.
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Author of the Month: Mary de Sousa
“It has taken me a long time to believe that writing for myself is a legitimate way to spend the day.” Mary de Sousa, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for February, talks to Casey Harding.
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Poet of the Month: Esther Phillips
“I love to work with language that forces me to choose the most powerful way to express what I feel in the fewest words…” Esther Phillips, our February Poet of the Month, in conversation with Jamie Osborn.
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Author of the Month: Adda Djørup
“In Denmark, as in all other places, it is almost impossible to make a living as a writer.” Adda Djørup, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for January, talks to Jacob Silkstone.
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Author of the Month: Adda Djørup (Danish version)
Original text of Adda Djørup’s Author of the Month interview with Jacob Silkstone.
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Poet of the Month: Yusra Amjad
“Female empowerment does not look the same in every society; it does not even look the same in two different women.” Yusra Amjad, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month for January, in conversation with Camille Ralphs.
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