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Georgia Writers Speak
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Bettie Sellers: How Can I Dare to Write?Terry Kay: The Discovery ProcessDavid Bottoms: On MetaphorErskine Caldwell: Lessons in LifeJudith Ortiz Cofer: Identity as a WriterAnthony Grooms: Write Your StoriesPhilip Lee Williams: InevitabilityJudson Mitcham: Using a PencilColeman Barks: Different VoicesDavid Bottoms: Demands of PoetryPhilip Lee Williams: Why Writers Write
Bottoms's first full-length book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump (1980), brought him national

Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Introduction

In this video gallery ten Georgia poets and writers speak frankly and informally about influences, the writing process, and the meaning of good writing, and several of them read from their own works.


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