Amanda Peters - THE BERRY PICKERS
In this interview, I chat with Amanda Peters about The Berry Pickers, how she decided to write this story, writing in first person, choosing who would narrate the story, writing a character study, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and other accolades, and much more.
In this interview, I chat with Amanda Peters about The Berry Pickers, how she decided to write this story, writing in first person, choosing who would narrate the story, writing a character study, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and other accolades, and much more.
Amanda's recommended reads are
- Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
- Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa
- If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
- When We Were Sisters by Fatima Asghar
- Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
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Amanda Peters
Author
Amanda Peters is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose, and her work has appeared in The Antigonish Review, Grain, the Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.
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