by sharon zink | Jan 26, 2017 | The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
This week’s Book Diner interviewee is Bronwen Griffiths. Author of the novel, A Bird in the House, and, more recently, a short story collection called Not Here, Not Us, which features Syrian characters, I first met Bronwen in 2014 when I was still living in...
by sharon zink | Jan 19, 2017 | The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
This week’s esteemed interviewee is short story writer and novelist, A.J. Ashworth. Her first collection, Somewhere Else, Or Even Here, won the Scott Prize and was also short-listed for the Edge Hill Prize. She also edited The Red Room, an anthology of stories...
by sharon zink | Jan 12, 2017 | The Book Diner Interviews, writing tips
Today I’m thrilled to interview the very talented, Rosie Garland. Years back, my first novel, Welcome to Sharonville, was shortlisted in the same Mslexia Novel Competition which Rosie’s book, The Palace of Curiosities, won – I wrote to congratulate...
by sharon zink | Jan 5, 2017 | The Book Diner Interviews
We kick off The Book Diner Interviews of 2017 by talking to Rebecca Ann Smith whose fascinating novel, Baby X, was published last year to great reviews. She hilariously likens it here to Gone Girl, but with more breastfeeding! I got to know Becky (as I call her) as we...
by sharon zink | Nov 23, 2016 | The Book Diner Interviews
We re-open The Book Diner this week with a bang as I invite the American poet and writing expert, Sage Cohen, to discuss her latest work, Fierce on the Page. I am a huge fan of Sage’s previous book, The Productive Writer, and I have been fortunate enough to get...
by sharon zink | Oct 10, 2014 | The Book Diner Interviews
The doors of The Book Diner swing open today to welcome a fabulously talented American poet and fiction writer, Bethany Pope, who I had the good fortune to room with at St. Clementin Literary Festival in France in August 2014. At just 31, Bethany not only has a...
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