Authors' rooms are an artificial barrier between the storyteller and the community, |
Calabash is earthy, inspirational, daring and diverse, |
If you're an author and someone is booking you a flight, they should check with you before they buy the ticket to make sure when you want to arrive, |
If you're an author and someone is booking you a flight, they should check with you before they buy the ticket to make sure when you want to arrive. |
We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience. |
What Calabash is doing is rejuvenating that tradition. |
You need to have a gang, a godmother, a godfather, somebody who can make you get a buss. A writer is held hostage by the publishers who are here. |