In this interview, we chat with Fawn Parker about showing the reader around the room, finding the right tense, protecting your writing time, and so much more.

Fawn Parker is the author of five books including novels What We Both Know (M&S), nominated for the Giller Prize and Hi, It's Me (M&S), nominated for the Writer's Trust Atwood Gibson Prize, and the poetry collection Soft Inheritance, which was awarded the JM Abraham Atlantic Book Award and the Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Her work has been published in The Walrus, Hazlitt, Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere. Fawn is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick and the Poet Laureate of Fredericton.

Books and stories mentioned in this episode:

• The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood
• The Mountain and the Valley – Ernest Buckler
• Libra – Don DeLillo
• The Guest – Emma Cline
• Attack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing – Douglas Glover
• "Experience" – Tessa Hadley
• Ulysses – James Joyce
• Rejection – Tony Tulathimutte
• This All Happened – Michael Winter
• How Fiction Works – James Wood
• Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf

Fawn's featured author photo is by Steph Martyniuk.