In Write What Scares You, we’ll start that piece that’s been haunting your soul.
We all have stories or novels that we’d love to write, but for one reason or another, we’re spooked! Maybe it’s too personal, and we think our families will disown us if we share that tale. Maybe you can’t even imagine yourself writing anything, because you don’t think you’re a Writer just yet. It’s time to face your fears and get to work!
Toya Wolfe grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes on Chicago's South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her writing has appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hair Trigger 27, and WarpLand. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition, and the Betty Shifflett/John Schultz Short Story Award. She currently resides in Chicago.
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Last Summer on State Street is her debut novel. "Toya Wolfe is a storyteller of the highest order—a wise and compassionate chronicler of girlhood, of Chicago, and of the things that make us human. Last Summer on State Street is a stunning debut." —Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Believers Visit Toya's website: www.toyawolfe.com |
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