On the first of every month, we’ll feature new interviews of local and international authors. Interviews will be conducted by SDWI Board Members. Is there an author you’d like to find out more about? Email Kelli.
Marivi Blanco Interviewed by Kristen Fogle
Marivi Blanco, author of “The Mango Bride” and a former SDWI board member, discusses her beginnings as a writer, favorite authors, and how SDWI’s Room to Write and Wednesday Writers helped her with her novel. KF: When did you first start writing? How did you evolve into a published novelist? MB: I’ve been writing since grade school. First summer job was as a proofreader at Mabuhay, an in-flight magazine. My first job out of undergrad was copywriting for...
moreOn the first of every month, we’ll feature new interviews of local and international authors. Interviews will be conducted by SDWI Board Members. Is there an author you’d like to find out more about? Email Kelli.
Blair Thornley Interviewed by Kristen Fogle
Blair Thornley, artist and instructor at San Diego Writers, Ink, whose drawings are currently hanging in the Ink Spot Gallery, discusses inspiration, her unique personal style, and what she is working on at the moment. KF: As a resident of North Park for almost two decades, you’ve probably seen a lot of change in the area. BT: When I first arrived at the end of 1991, we used to roll up our windows and lock the doors on our drive down University Avenue through...
moreOn the first of every month, we’ll feature new interviews of local and international authors. Interviews will be conducted by SDWI Board Members. Is there an author you’d like to find out more about? Email Kelli.
William Luvaas Interviewed by Kristen Fogle
William Luvaas, SDWI instructor and author of Ashes Rain Down, discusses some of his favorite distinctions, the evolution of a “story cycle,” and we can expect next from him. KF: Currently, who are some of your favorite authors? William Luvaas: My favorite writers have remained much the same over the years: William Faulkner, Dostoevski, Flannery O’Connor, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Marianne Wiggins, James Joyce, Kafka…to name a few....
moreOn the first of every month, we’ll feature new interviews of local and international authors. Interviews will be conducted by SDWI Board Members. Is there an author you’d like to find out more about? Email Kelli.
Ray Bradbury on Writing: In Honor of Our Writing Contest (Feb 28 extended deadline)
In honor of our Creative Writing Contest (deadline extended to Feb 28!), as part of The Big Read and in collaboration with Write Out Loud, where participants are asked to write in response to Ray Bradbury’s famous work Fahrenheit 451, we bring you two pieces of...
moreOn the first of every month, we’ll feature new interviews of local and international authors. Interviews will be conducted by SDWI Board Members. Is there an author you’d like to find out more about? Email Kelli.
Margaret Dilloway Interviewed by Zoe Gharehmani
Margaret Dilloway grew up in San Diego and graduated from Scripps College. She lives in San Diego with her husband, a former Army Ranger, and their three children. How to Be An American Housewife is her debut novel. When did you start writing? I was a quiet and shy child, one of those who hardly ever speak – some call it ‘selective mutism’? So I started writing as soon as I could and have been writing all my life. Did you pursue writing in your education? No, I...
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