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Being a Writer is Hard Work:A Masterclass in Creative Writing with Phillip B. Williams
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On episode 27 of the podcast, award-winning poet and debut novelist, Phillip B. Williams, is on the show. You might have heard about Williams because his brand new novel, Ours, was one of Oprah’s most anticipated books for 2024.
Ours is an epic story about a conjure woman named Saint, who goes around destroying plantations in the south, and then freeing the enslaved workers. She then creates a magical world called Ours where the newly emancipated can live in peace because white people can neither see, nor access Ours. And if they try, they meet with a gruesome ending!
It’s an epic story of Black resistance.
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- What MFA programs are actually good for and who should apply
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- Why we should be reading the works of our literary ancestors
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- Why He Views Ours as Black Surrealism rather than Magical Realism
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