Author and Poet Donna Gordon and the Desire to Put Words Together

AUG 4, 202227 MIN
Queries, Qualms, & Quirks

Author and Poet Donna Gordon and the Desire to Put Words Together

AUG 4, 202227 MIN

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<p>Author and Poet Donna Gordon joins Queries, Qualms, &amp; Quirks this week to discuss switching from poetry to prose, the impact of mentors, a long interruption of her writing career, how her visual art helps her writing, needing to write, learning to put herself first, going from being a writer to an author, the stamina it takes to write and sell a book, and collaborating with people who can see things you can't see.</p> <p>Donna Gordon is a Cambridge, MA-based writer. She graduated from Brown, and was then a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a PEN Discovery, and Ploughshares Discovery. She was a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center in 2017 and 2018. She received the 2018 New Letters Publication Award for <em>What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me</em>, which has been named by the Independent Book Review as one of the top 45 they're excited about for 2022.</p> <p>Donna: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6WcZoUGutqe_9gnY-k4k1F6-JSvkTFEXR8bP9VLaKQ/edit?usp=sharing"><u>Query</u></a> | <a href="http://www.donnasgordon.com/"><u>Website</u></a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/donnasgordon"><u>Facebook</u></a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/donnasgordon"><u>Twitter</u></a> | <a href="http://www.instagram.com/donnagordon8994"><u>Instagram</u></a> | <a href="https://amzn.to/3bo6oQp"><u>Amazon</u></a> | <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1209/9781646032303"><u>Bookshop</u></a> | <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781646032303?aff=72724"><u>IndieBound</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://sarahnicolas.com/queries-qualms-quirks/"><u>QQQ Home Base</u></a> |<a href="https://www.patreon.com/pubtalklive"> <u>Support on Patreon</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZXI_o9qjde3FdV5gEXPHccf66K_Y7b7M/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=117960902139688351428&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true"><u>Read the full transcript.</u></a></p> <p>If links aren't clickable, find them here: <a href="https://bit.ly/qqqdonnagordon"><u>https://bit.ly/qqqdonnagordon</u></a></p> <p>This page includes affiliate links. Please use them if you’d like to support the show.</p>