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International Writers' Collective episodes

  • Julie Phillips Master Class Recording
    American author & biographer Julie Phillips speaks to IWC teacher Karen Kao about her latest book, The Baby on the Fire Escape and offers some insights on the relationship between motherhood and creativity
    43 min
  • Faylita Hicks Master Class Recording
    In this master class, poet and spoken word artist Faylita Hicks speaks about their poetry collection 'HoodWitch' with teacher Laura Wetherington. They discuss combining advocacy and poetry, exploring big questions and abstract ideas in a way that’s accessible, writing across different forms and genres, and more.
    55 min
  • Jing-Jing Lee Master Class Recording
    In this master class, Jing-Jing Lee speaks about her historical novel 'How We Disappeared' with teacher Karen Kao. They discuss the delicate art of writing about trauma, interweaving multiple time periods and points of view, finding and working with an agent, and more.
    51 min
  • Laura Wetherington Master Class Recording

    Poet and teacher Laura Wetherington gave a special online master class for us on 21 February 2021. You can listen to a recording of the first hour of the class below, or it is also available as a podcast from the services listed and from our own feed.

    The class focussed on craft in Laura’s latest poetry collection Parallel Resting Places, which won the 2020 New Measure Prize. Her debut collection, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have been featured by Poem-A-Day, the Colorado Review, and The Normal School, among many others. Laura is a feature writer for the University of Arizona Poetry Center, a reviewer at Full Stop, and the poetry editor at Baobab Press and she teaches in Sierra Nevada University’s low-residency MFA program and with the Collective.

    The class was moderated by fellow poet Wende Crow, who also teaches with the Collective. Some of the topics covered included writing from a source text, using fake translations, the power of epistolary poems and confessionals, why “failed poems” are an important part of the process and much more.

    Parallel Resting Places was published by Parlor Press in 2021. You can get your copy direct from the publisher in paperback or PDF (the PDF is only $10 and is available for download immediately) or in paperback via the Book Depository, Bookshop (UK), Amazon (US), or Bol (NL)

     

    Copyright © 2021 Laura Wetherington & International Writers’ Collective

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    49 min
  • Megin Jiménez Master Class Recording
    In this master class, award-winning poet Megin Jiménez and Sarah Carriger discuss stocking the well of inspiration, finding the right place to submit your work, keeping writing fun and much more.
    39 min
  • Rebecca O’Connor Master Class Recording
    In this master class with Rebecca O’Connor, novelist, poet and editor of the literary magazine 'The Moth', we talked about her novel 'He Is Mine and I Have No Other' and the importance of setting, the challenges of capturing a teenage voice, the charms of the epistolary novel, the value of a good beta reader, some tips for those who’d like to see their work published in 'The Moth', and much more.
    0 min
  • Caoilinn Hughes Master Class Recording

    Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes, author of the novel Orchid & the Wasp and the award-winning poetry collection Gathering Evidence, gave a special master class for us on Sunday, 28 July 2019 at Boekhandel van Rossum in Amsterdam. You can listen to a recording of the class below, or it is also available as a podcast from the services listed and from our own feed.

    The class focused primarily on Hughes’s novel and dipped briefly into her poetry, as well as addressing issues of craft, process and publishing. Specific topics covered by Hughes in conversation with our instructor Karen Kao included:

    • figuring out form,
    • why short stories are a good way to learn,
    • crafting a complex female protagonist,
    • writing in the past tense versus writing in the present,
    • how publishing can kind of mess with your head and how to protect yourself,
    • how to get yourself to sit down and write even when you don’t feel like it or you have limited time, and much more.

      • Hughes holds a PhD in English Literature from Victoria University, New Zealand and a masters in 20th Century Irish Theatre and Culture from Queens University in Belfast. Anthony Doerr described Orchid & the Wasp as a “gorgeous novel told in an onrush of wit and ferocity” while the Irish Times places Hughes in the vanguard of new Irish fiction. Her debut poetry collection, Gathering Evidence, won the 2015 Irish Times Shine/Strong Award and the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. Her stories have won a Moth International Short Story Prize and an O.Henry Prize.

      Orchid & the Wasp was published by Penguin Random House in the US and Oneworld in the UK. Gathering Evidence was published in 2014 by Carcanet Press. You can get your copy from most major book retailers or direct from the publisher.

       

      Copyright © 2019 Caoilinn Hughes & International Writers’ Collective

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    Master classes and interviews with writers & poets. The International Writers' Collective is an Amsterdam-based learning community. We offer creative writing courses locally and online.

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