In a small-town park, Izzy and Junie, two 12-year-old girls, meet a grisly end. If I'm going to learn how a particular group of people talk and think, part of my job is to get out there and be with them.A bleak drama of rural America that offers grim lessons but minimal hope. I'm a big believer in doing research in person whenever possible.
So I've been going to Gambler's Anonymous and Gam-Anon meetings. "I'm writing a story that involves a gambler right now - a recovering gambler. Billie Livingston on the CanLit cage match of her dreams.The more you give in to it, the more you lose the truth of yourself - and the truth of yourself is, paradoxically, what you need most when writing fiction." 'Write what you're afraid of' is helpful too. "'Use the AIC method: Ass In Chair.' It's the only way a book is going to get written. Find out what kind of writing gets your pulse going, what you're passionate about." What is the best writing advice you've ever received? Just read your brains out and read as broadly as you can. "Reading a few hundred good - or bad - novels can teach you more about writing than any how-to book possibly could.
What book would you recommend to aspiring writers? Billie Livingston on substance abuse and family tragedy.Besides, that little twerp wouldn't listen to me anyway." I'm happy in my life and if I were to change anything, who knows how it would alter the course of things. "'Ah, grow up!' Seriously, I don't know if I would want to tell her what to do. Livingston answered four questions for CBC Books.
Livingston is the 2017 recipient of the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award, a $25,000 prize given to a mid-career writer in recognition of a "remarkable body of work." Her books include the novels Going Down Swinging and One Good Hustle.
The Vancouver-based writer is a novelist, essayist and poet. Billie Livingston is a Vancouver-based poet, fiction writer and essayist.
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