Steven Wingate’s debut short story collection, Wifeshopping, won the Bakeless Prize in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. His prose poetry chapbook The Birth of Trigonometry in the Bones of Olduvai was published by Finishing Line Press, and a second collection of prose poems, Thirty-One Octets: Incantations and Meditations, was released by WordTech Communications/CW Books. He is an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University, where he directs the Great Plains Writers Conference. Visit his author website at www.stevenwingate.com.
“I suppose if flash fiction were a running form, it would be a sprint. One that requires a lot of thinking and training and art to have a good, solid race”: Kim Chinquee with Steve Wingate on her new collection of flash fiction, Veer, out this spring from Ravenna Press.
“I tell my students to focus on developing aspects of their characters that they don’t share”: Neil Connelly talks with Steven Wingate about presses tiny and huge, teaching in MFA programs, and his new collection, In the Wake of Our Vows.
“Is it possible for us to solve a problem our ancestors struggled with and by doing so liberate not only ourselves but also them, retroactively, and allow them repose as well? Reversing the direction of time’s arrow was an idea I wanted to explore in this novel.”
Steven Wingate talks with Georgi Gospodinov about his new novel, The Physics of Sorrow, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel and published by Open Letter Books earlier this year.
Ever wonder what it’s like to keep your writerly identity while collaborating on novels with incredibly famous people? Maya Sloan can tell you.
“Writing is nothing but entering the memories of the body”: Bulgarian writer Viriginia Zaharieva talks with Steven Wingate about her novel Nine Rabbits.
“I wanted the reader to feel wounded that these souls had been taken from us,” Patrick Hicks says of the minor characters in his new novel, The Commandant of Lubizec.
Steve Wingate urges fiction writers to write prose poetry, in an attempt to return to the proto-writer inside—that self that loves words simply for the sake of language itself.
Albena Stambolova’s short, fable-like novel Everything Happens As It Does brings a whole new sensibility to the body of English translations from her native Bulgaria’s contemporary literature.
What’s a superhero to do when the world doesn’t need him anymore? Neil Connelly, author of The Midlife Crisis of Commander Invincible, has a few answers in this interview.
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