Home Schooling, by Carol Windley In an email interview with Ambrose Musiyiwa which took place on Oct. 16, Canadian author Carol Windley spoke about her latest collection of short stories and the challenges short story writers face. The short stories in your most recent collection, Home Schooling, are set against the rural landscape of Vancouver Island and the cities of the Pacific Northwest. Why is this so? Is there a particular reason for this? I’ve always felt incredibly lucky to have grown up on Vancouver Island. The landscape is in one way quite gentle and benign, but it’s also complicated and dense and mysterious — an ideal setting, I think, for fiction. Some of the stories in Home Schooling are set in Washington State because it’s an area with strong geographic and historical connections to B. C. The international border adds a note of interest and complexity — another demarcation, like the...
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