{"id":1643,"date":"2011-11-10T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T21:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.wordpress.com\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2019-04-25T16:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:40:14","slug":"intern-rhiannon-racy-interviews-angela-jackson-brown-about-her-recent-pushcart-prize-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/intern-rhiannon-racy-interviews-angela-jackson-brown-about-her-recent-pushcart-prize-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Intern, Rhiannon Racy, Interviews Angela Jackson-Brown About her Recent Pushcart Prize Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/graduation-reading-photo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1646\" title=\"Graduation Reading photo\" src=\"http:\/\/bsuenglish.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/graduation-reading-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/10\/10100306\/graduation-reading-photo.jpg 512w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/10\/10100306\/graduation-reading-photo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a>Angela Jackson-Brown was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story, \u201cSomething in the Wash.\u201d Our department intern, Rhiannon Racy, interviewed her about the story, the relationship between her teaching and writing, and her advice to aspiring writers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me about \u201cSomething in the Wash\u201d and how you found out about the nomination?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething in the Wash\u201d originally began as a poem about a black woman whose husband has been unfaithful and impregnates a young woman. Ultimately the two women come together, and the wife takes in the woman and her child.\u00a0 Later I revised the poem into a short story. My creative thesis mentor, Crystal Wilkinson, first suggested that I send the story to the <em>New Southerner<\/em>\u2019s fiction literary contest.\u00a0 In 2009, the story appeared in the <em>New Southerner<\/em> literary magazine as the winner of the Fiction Prize.<\/p>\n<p>A year after winning the fiction prize, I received a phone call from the editor, Bobbi Buchanan, informing me that I had been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.\u00a0 At first I wasn\u2019t too excited about it, but after people began congratulating me, I realized it was a huge honor that I should be taking more seriously.\u00a0 I realized that the nomination placed me in the same category as many of the writers who I admire, and receiving the nomination also acted as an affirmation of my work.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t win; however, clich\u00e9 sounding or not, I truly feel like the nomination was enough. \u00a0Receiving it was definitely a validation. I, and other writers, spend so much time honing our craft that it feels so good when we do get that recognition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you begin teaching and how does teaching shape your writing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started my academic career as a business major, but later I completed a Master\u2019s of Arts degree in English from Auburn University. I taught for a while, but then I became burnt out with teaching so I worked in marketing and public relations for ten years. But I knew I loved creative writing so I went back to school for my MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University, graduating from there in the Fall of 2009.\u00a0 I consider myself a late bloomer as far as publishing goes. I\u2019ve always been a storyteller and writer, but I\u2019ve never pursued publishing except in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Being a professor of English makes me focus on the things I am teaching my students.\u00a0 It allows me to be the physician and heal myself. Teaching students keeps me motivated because I have to practice what I preach to my students in my own writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could attribute your success to anyone, who would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>As a young girl, I read Maya Angelou\u2019s book, <em>I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings<\/em>, and afterwards, I had a light bulb moment occur.\u00a0 I realized she was black like me. I remember being so excited about that fact, hardly able to wait to tell my teacher, Miss Brimmer, that I was going to be a writer like Maya Angelou. My excitement stemmed from the realization that if Maya Angelou could write stories about her life then I could, too.<\/p>\n<p>The writers I came in contact with at Spalding University have also helped me to reach where I am now because we have continued, even after graduation, to be a united, supportive writing community. Something every writer needs in his or her life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What are your future plans and do you have any advice for aspiring writers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am going to continue writing.\u00a0 I want to expand beyond fiction and poetry and adapt some of my writing into one act plays.\u00a0 I am also working on and off on a novel.<\/p>\n<p>As far as advice, I would say, don\u2019t write with the goal of getting published.\u00a0 If you\u2019re writing solely for that purpose, then you are limiting yourself.\u00a0 If you write what you love, it will find its literary home someday.\u00a0 Just be patient.<\/p>\n<p>Link to \u201cSomething in the Wash\u201d in <em>New Southerner<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsoutherner.com\/2009\/12\/10\/something-in-the-wash\/\">http:\/\/www.newsoutherner.com\/2009\/12\/10\/something-in-the-wash\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Jackson-Brown was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short story, \u201cSomething in the Wash.\u201d Our department intern, Rhiannon Racy, interviewed her about the story, the relationship between her teaching and writing, and her advice to aspiring writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1655],"tags":[108,1231,1281],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-community","tag-angela-jackson-brown","tag-pushcart-prize","tag-rhiannon-racy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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