“What’s a Great First Line...Write That Down & Follow It,” Creative Writing & The Queer Female Experience w/ Laury A. Egan

Ivory Tower Boiler Room · Mar 28, 2024 · 1h 9m

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon and get a free trial for the ITBR Professor level! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ ⁠ Today, Laury A. Egan joins Dr. Andrew Rimby in the ITBR to discuss her creative writing process and how her experience as a queer female writer makes its way into her art. She opens up about her recent novel The Firefly which features a romantic relationship between two young girls in 1964 that explores coming of age themes beyond a typical lesbian romance genre. She explains that one of her writing muses is Virginia…