Make More Pots! Marguerite Sheffer on Perseverance and Experimentation.
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Marguerite Sheffer discusses her award-winning collection and the role of creativity and community in her writing process.
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 and how it has changed her professional life how writing groups and community played a role in completing this collection what experimentation and sense of creative destruction can lead to in a creative practice This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit writingstories123.substack.com
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