Author: Phyllis Root

Dear Answers, Ink, If I write a story about a New York major league baseball team that doesn’t know how to play the game, is that metafiction?K.C. Dear K.C., Metafiction is defined as writing that is aware of itself as writing....

This past Tuesday was a day of depressing writing news all around, and by evening all I wanted was to lie on my bed, feel sorry for myself, and eat pasta. But I dragged myself up to go hear Azar Nafisi speak at a local...

Like Dorothy and Toto, I’m not in Kansas anymore, but I was this past weekend. Here’s how I came to be at a writer’s conference in McPherson, Kansas.A year ago I got an email from Jim, someone I’d known casually in college forty...

Last Saturday afternoon at The Loft Second Story Reading Series in Minneapolis Ricki Thompson and Donna Jo Napoli both read from their historical novels, transporting us first to Elizabethan England in Thompson’s City of...