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Author Interviews

Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Lanette Sweeney

Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interview Series: Lanette Sweeney

Posted on September 13, 2021January 12, 2022

Lanette Sweeney’s first poetry collection, What I Should Have Said: A Poetry Memoir about Losing A Child to Addiction, has just been released by Finishing Line Press. The book is structured in accordance with the stages of grief, and includes twenty poems by Sweeney’s late son, who died of an overdose in 2016. Sweeney began Read More

First in the New Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interviews Series: Richard Wayne Horton

First in the New Straw Dog Writers Guild Author Interviews Series: Richard Wayne Horton

Posted on August 25, 2021January 12, 2022

Richard Wayne Horton is the author of Sticks and Bones (Meat for Tea Press, 2017), and Artists In The Underworld (Human Error Publishing, 2019). Later this year he will release Ballet for Murderers (Human Error Publishing). Richard writes poetry, flash fiction, and longer fiction, but much of his work is a hybrid of these genres, Read More

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