In this episode, we talk to author and artist, Alfred Depew (winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction), about writing, teaching writing, and what it was like to be in Don Murray's writing workshop.

Look for Alfred's award winning book, The Melancholy of Departure, at your local bookstore, or you can order it here:
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820344607/the-melancholy-of-departure/

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Alfred DePew on Being a Writer and Learning from Don Murray

Write Answers is brought to you by the Ohio Writing Project. This podcast is for writers, teachers, and teachers who teach writers. In each episode we pitch the biggest questions in the field to the smartest people in the field.