{"id":517,"date":"2015-04-06T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2015-04-06T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:33:44","slug":"mar-asks-bryce-emley-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/mar-asks-bryce-emley-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"MAR Asks, Bryce Emley Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bryce Emley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a finalist in the 2014 Fineline Competition<\/a> for prose poems, short shorts, and everything in between, Bryce Emley\u2019s piece, \u201cDiving Deep (My Father as Octopus)\u201d appears in MAR <\/em>35.1. He\u2019s here today to discuss science as artistic inspiration, bizarre birthmarks, and his rather unorthodox reaction to his MAR <\/em>acceptance.<\/p>\n

Bryce Emley is a freelance writer and MFA student at NC State. His work can be found in Best American Experimental Writing 2015<\/em>, The Normal School<\/em>, Prairie Schooner<\/em>, Your Impossible Voice<\/em>, etc., and he serves on staff for Raleigh Review<\/em> and BULL: Men’s Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Quick! Summarize your piece in 10 words or fewer. <\/strong><\/p>\n

dad = octopus<\/p>\n

What can you share about this piece prior to its MAR publication?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This piece started when I read a science article I was finding pretty challenging but also vaguely intriguing, though I didn\u2019t really know why. I stuffed the magazine into a drawer with the foggy impression that one day I would turn the article into a poem\u2014a process which took an absurd amount of re-reading, thinking\/talking to myself about, and revising (which is still going on, actually).<\/p>\n

What was your reaction upon receiving your MAR acceptance?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think I pumped my fist and humped the air a few times. It was less weird than it sounds.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re at a family reunion and some long-lost relative asks about your writing. What do you say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m working on it.<\/p>\n

Tell us one strange thing about yourself that does not involve<\/strong> writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a birthmark on my left foot that looks from one angle like an angel carrying a basket, from another like a bad-ass bearded guy on a Harley.<\/p>\n

Do you have another favorite piece of writing in this MAR issue? If so, name it and tell us why.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jennifer K. Sweeny\u2019s \u201cParenthetical at 35.\u201d It\u2019s so weird and so lovely and so logical in equal parts.<\/p>\n

Can you show us a photo of you holding your MAR contributor\u2019s copy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bryce<\/a>Thanks for the interview, Bryce!<\/em><\/strong>
\nLaura Maylene Walter, Fiction Editor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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