TRP May Roundup
New releases in paperback, audiobook, and ebook. Winner announced for The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize: West Virginia. Colorado Book Awards, Summerlee Book Prize, Starred Kirkus Review, and more. See what TRP was up to in May!
Keep readingThomas H. McNeely discusses linked stories for The Writer’s Spotlight
“Linked stories can allow you to create a portrait of a character or a place, or both, in a much different way from a novel. In story collections, the connections can be looser, characters can transform in surprising and sometimes jarring ways.” Thomas H. McNeely interviewed by Malena Watrous for Stanford’s The Writer’s Spotlight. Read…
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Caridad Moro-Gronlier
CARIDAD MORO-GRONLIER is the author of the chapbook Tortillera, the winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Florida, and Visionware.
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Theodora Ziolkowski
“The idea of not having a book on me alarms me. I keep an ’emergency book’ in my car because the possibility of ever being expected to wait without a book—or, worse case scenario, unexpectedly stranded somewhere—disturbs me deeply.”
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
“When you design a dwelling you are giving shape to space so that a body, humans mostly, but not just—can inhabit the space. If one thinks of a poem as a dwelling—after all stanza is Italian for room—then it is interesting to think not only about what one is saying, but about the space one…
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Jose Hernandez Diaz
“I don’t feel like myself when I’m not reading and writing regularly.”
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Elizabeth Genovise
“I’d have a separate party on another night for the canonical Russian writers because, let’s face it, they’d be a buzzkill even if we kept the vodka flowing, and I’d want all these people to come back.”
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Sarah Kain Gutowski
“I don’t feel like myself when I’m not reading and writing regularly.”
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Jack B. Bedell
“I read like a fiend as a child, all science and history, though! My favorite books were Audubon Field Guides, especially the editions about snakes, birds, and fishes. I also carried around a copy of Jacques Cousteau’s The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Seas book for years. Still have it on my shelf now!”
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Megan Baxter
I binge-read through classics because I felt I needed to read them. I didn’t take the time to understand or digest them, so while I can say that I did “read” those volumes, I can’t recall much of their language or content. I’ve learned to avoid feeling required to read things.
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with David Armand
For me, almost all reading is pleasurable. And I can learn from it, even the bad stuff. But I particularly like long novels where I can spend weeks or even months with the characters—thinking about them throughout the day and looking forward to the next morning when I can spend time with them again.
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Johnnie Bernhard
I love receiving books as gifts from friends and family. My favorites are books written by friends. It’s a privilege to share that moment with an author.
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with Mary Morris
Public high school opened up enormous possibilities for literature and creative writing. I fell in love with Bukowski, Tolkien, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, and read all of Herman Hesse.
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TRP Q&A: An Interview with James Jabar
Mackenzie Campbell interviews Texas Review Press author James Jabar James Jabar is a student and lecturer from Greensboro, NC. He has an MFA in poetry from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his poems have recently appeared in The Freshwater Review. When he is not writing poetry or mentoring students, he spends his…
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