For me, storytelling is the key to the kingdom, the journey and the test and the joy. Stories find me and I engage with them. I’ve also written stage plays, produced, and a few screenplays, paid for but not realized on film. I used to think of myself as a poet. But prose fiction is the most durable, most pliable container for a storyteller. Sometimes it requires you to reinvent the form so that your story can be told... Fiction is my way of exploring the other — in terms of race, age, gender, class, sexual preference, soma, soul. That’s novels — the form for exploring what you don’t understand but want or need to. Short stories, for me, are the form for writing about what you do understand, what you know in your bones. My stories — two collections published — are more conventional, more drawn from my own real experience than my novels are.
Interview [15 February 2016]
Interview [15 February 2016]
Use the link below to read the 2016 interview with North American writer JOYCE THOMPSON:
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