Make More Pots! Marguerite Sheffer on Perseverance and Experimentation.

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Marguerite Sheffer discusses her award-winning collection and the themes of art and justice in her speculative fiction.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Marguerite Sheffer talks about Iowa Short Fiction Prize winning collection The Man in the Banana Trees and covers: the content of Marguerite's wide ranging speculative fiction stories that dive deeply into the practice of making art and some of our most critical justice issues in our culture how design thinking helped Marguerite get to a place of wildness and fierce play and pleasure with these stories what it was like to win the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Prize ...

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Host: Brianna Avenia-Tapper

Guest: Marguerite Sheffer

Topics covered

• speculative fiction
• art making
• justice issues
• design thinking
• perseverance
• experimentation

Keywords

• Iowa Short Fiction Prize
• speculative fiction
• art
• justice
• design thinking
• perseverance
• experimentation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Man in the Banana Trees

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