• About
  • Contributors
  • Guidelines & Submissions

The Chapbook Interview

    chapbook

    Tracy Mishkin on audience, inspiration, and the art of fabulous titles

    Posted on December 11, 2018

    You are the author of the chapbooks I Almost Didn’t Make Itto McDonald’s (Finishing Line Press, 2014), The Night I Quit Flossing (Five Oaks Press, 2016), and This is Still Life (Brain Mill Press,2018). Talk about audience. When you create your chapbooks, what are your creative strategies to invite readers into your poems? Do you imagine your audience(s) in the writing and revision process? In what ways do you seek to build connections, cultivate dialogue, and invite responses from your…

    Continue Reading

    0 Comments
    By laura madeline wiseman
  • chapbook

    Tina Schumann on writing as therapy, sequencing a collection, and the writing life

    You are the author of As If (Parlor City Press, 2010), Requiem. A Patrimony of Fugues (Diode Editions, 2016), and Praising the Paradox (Red Hen Press, 2019) and the editor of…

    December 2, 2018
  • chapbook

    Risa Denenberg on supportive poetry community and the editorial work of a press

    You are the editor and co-founder with Mary Meriam of Headmistress Press, a press that publishes chapbooks. You are also the author of three full-length books and the three chapbooks blinded…

    November 20, 2018
  • chapbook

    Jennifer Hirt on video-poems, titles, genre, and sequencing chapbooks

    You are the author of the chapbook Too many questions about strawberries (Tolson Books, 2018) and the author of the memoir Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees (University…

    November 17, 2018
  • chapbook

    Cort Fernald on the editorial work of a writers guild

    The Nebraska Writers Guild published the multi-genre anthology Voices from the Plains in 2017. The second Voices from the Plains, also multi-genre, is forthcoming later this year. In 2019, the NWG…

    November 16, 2018
  • chapbook

    Michele Herman on the promotion of a chapbook, start to finish

    You are the author of the chapbook Victory Boulevard (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Talk about the promotion work and the steps you took—galley editing, copywriting, publicity, and more—in the lead up…

    November 15, 2018
  • chapbook

    Wayne M. Anson on the editorial work of a writers guild

    The Nebraska Writers Guild published the multi-genre anthology Voices from the Plains in 2017. The second Voices from the Plains, also multi-genre, is forthcoming later this year. In 2019, the NWG…

    November 11, 2018
  • chapbook

    Ellen Birkett Morris on the creative process, poetic form, and publishing

    You are the author of the chapbook of poetry Surrender (Finishing Line Press), and you have the recent poems “Surveillance,” “Blind Weaver,” and “Paper Children” published online. You also write fiction,…

    November 1, 2018
  • chapbook

    Nathan Elias on the process of building a chapbook of poems and a chapbook novelette

    You are the author of a chapbook of poems, Glass City Blues: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and chapbook novelette, A Myriad of Roads That Lead to Here (Scarlet Leaf Publishing House, 2017). Talk about form…

    October 30, 2018
  • chapbook

    Elizabeth Jacobson on community, inspiration, and compassion

    You are the author of the chapbooks Are the Children Make Believe? (dancing girl press) and A Brown Stone (dancing girl press), as well as two full-length books of poetry. Talk about your…

    October 27, 2018
Older Posts
Twitter Instagram RSS

© 2018 The Chapbook Interview. All Rights Reserved. Wordpress Theme by SoloPine.com