Amanda Peters, THE BERRY PICKERS
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews debut author Amanda Peters about her award-winning novel, THE BERRY PICKERS. The story, influenced by Peters' Mi’kmaq heritage, revolves around a family from Nova Scotia who travels to Maine each summer for blueberry picking and the four-year-old daughter who goes missing from the fields. The novel, which took four years to complete, was part of her Peters' MFA program. Now an associate professor, she emphasizes the importance of perseverance and feedback in writing. Finally, the podcast touches on Peters' upcoming short story collection!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
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| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.a called zibby's bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at one one one three montana avenue at 11th street in san monica i hope that you are able to |
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| 0:53.3 | 2018 and no matter what i do this is basically my of all of it and started in 2018. And no matter what I do, this is basically |
| 0:56.5 | my favorite thing. Enjoy. |
| 1:03.2 | Amanda Peters is the author of The Barry Pickers, a novel, which since this episode was recorded, |
| 1:09.4 | became a Barnes & Noble discover pick for the best book. |
| 1:13.6 | Amanda Peters is a writer of Megawah and Settler Ancestry, who obtained her certificate in creative writing from the University of Toronto in 2016, |
| 1:21.9 | and a master's of fine arts and creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. |
| 1:26.4 | She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for unpublished prose and was chosen by |
| 1:31.8 | Katarina Vermet to participate in the 2021 Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Stars program. |
| 1:37.3 | Her fiction has appeared in the Antiguanish Review, Grain Magazine, the Alaska Quarterly |
| 1:41.4 | Review, the Dalhousie Review, and the Filling Station Magazine. |
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