{"id":905,"date":"2016-09-16T19:28:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/?p=905"},"modified":"2021-01-29T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T16:53:20","slug":"kc-writes-interview-annie-raab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/kc-writes-interview-annie-raab\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Writes Interview-Annie Raab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I sat down with Annie Raab as part of the KC Writes Interview series. I know Annie from her fiction writing, but Raab is best known in Kansas City as an art critic at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitch.com\/\">The Pitch<\/a> and as the Senior Prose Editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wppress.org\/kansas-city-voices\/submissions\/\">Kansas City Voices<\/a> magazine. <img class=\"size-full wp-image-909 alignright lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Annie-Raab-headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Raab Kansas City writer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><noscript><img class=\"size-full wp-image-909 alignright lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/jessicaconoley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Annie-Raab-headshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Annie Raab Kansas City writer\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/noscript>We had a great chat in her tree house of an apartment talking about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How invisibility makes you a stronger fiction writer.<\/li>\n<li>The need for bravery to write criticism. A more fearless critic &amp; cowardly fiction writer.<\/li>\n<li>The secret reason she writes criticism.<\/li>\n<li>How she defines good art.<\/li>\n<li>The immediate satisfaction of writing criticism verses the long term gratification of writing fiction<\/li>\n<li>Why fiction is scarier than writing criticism.<\/li>\n<li>The most terrifying piece she ever wrote and the fears she had to confront before she could publish the piece.<\/li>\n<li>The world of residencies and the way the residency process works.<\/li>\n<li>And a little bit on the Pirate Women of Morocco<\/li>\n<li>The two poets that make her not dismiss the entire genre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poets\/detail\/ben-lerner\">Ben Lerner<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/maryoliver.beacon.org\/\">Mary Oliver.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And she came out with a strong list of female KC Creatives to keep our eye on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megankarson.com\/about-me\/\">Megan Karson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anneboyer.com\/anneboyer\/\">Anne Boyer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flanland.com\/\">Flannery Cashill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the whole interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/jessica-conoley.podomatic.com\/entry\/2016-09-16T17_25_12-07_00\">http:\/\/jessica-conoley.podomatic.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about Annie at <a href=\"https:\/\/annieraab.com\/\">https:\/\/annieraab.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I sat down with Annie Raab as part of the KC Writes Interview series. 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