To Have No Shame On Your Face -- T Clark's Journey to a Two-Book Deal.

About this episode

T Clark discusses their journey to a two-book deal, exploring themes of girlhood, shame, and the writing process.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode T Clark talks about All This Want and I Can't Get None and covers: the content of T's feverish and honest short stories about girlhood, shame, want, and choices how T found an agent what the path to a book deal looked like how living in a certain place can foster a more balanced writing life how writing collaborative plays has informed their fiction

People in this episode

Host: Brianna Avenia-Tapper

Guest: T Clark

Topics covered

• girlhood
• shame
• writing process
• book deal
• collaborative plays

Keywords

• T Clark
• book deal
• short stories
• writing life
• collaborative plays

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: All This Want and I Can't Get None

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