On this episode of What Happened Next, I speak with Dawn Promislow. Dawn is the author of the short story collection Jewels, published in 2010, and the novel Wan, published by Freehand Books in May 2022. Author Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer has called Wan “a masterpiece” and said that this “beautiful, painterly, sublime, and sonically exquisite novel … is a work of utter genius.”
Dawn and I talk about the long stretch of time between her first and second book (and how that is only partly her fault), the astonishingly short time it took her to write the first draft of Wan when she finally did so, and how a work by JM Coetzee opened her creative imagination and helped her realize she could write fiction in the first place.
Dawn Promislow: dawnpromislow.com
Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.
Contact Nathan Whitlock at nathanwhitlock.ca/contact
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