Readings, Interviews
blogtalkradio: The Art of Fiction as a Call to Personal Action (November 11, 2008)
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Anya discusses her creative writing process and reads short passages from her new novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl. She also discusses her current international workshop project, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World. Listen and learn creativity tips for your writing and how to answer your personal calling to be the change you want to see in your community.
Inside Scoop Live (July 16, 2008)
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Reader Views
For an extensive discussion of Anya’s just published novella, The Stories of Devil-Girl, please see her interview with Tyler R. Tichelaar at Reader Views. The interview includes discussion of the use of the name Devil-Girl; as well as a look at the category of “Urban Fiction”; the way the book moves between poetry and prose, and autobiography and fiction; and the particular role the ancestral plays in this work.
Perspectives (June 26th, 2008)
Anya and Mervyn Taylor, her long time friend and colleague from The Young Adult Learning Academy in NYC (a now extinct, but ever alive school for drop-out youth born from the organizing efforts of the Harlem community), talk with poet and scholar Louis Reyes Rivera on his show “Perspective” on WBAI radio, June 26th, 2008. For other shows see the station’s website.
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Foreign Policy in Focus (September 21, 2007)
“An excerpt of an interview that Ethelbert Miller did with me on my novel-in-progress, about a Cambodian woman born at the moment the U.S. bombing of Cambodia began in 1970. Part of the discussion hits on the oldie but goodie: how does a writer work with a character of a different ethnic or racial perspective?”
Authors Access (September 20, 2007)
An interview about my Writing For Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World Workshops.
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Morning Edition, KUNM Radio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 89.9FM. (August 2007)
Anya converses with host Elaine Baumgartel about the intersection of writing, teaching, and activism.
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S.O.M.O.S. Writers on Radio, KRZA 88.7 FM. (August 2006)
Anya reads novel excerpts and talks with host Tania Casselle about how writers claim their stories.
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