capwrites, Author at CHRISSIE ANDERSON PETERS

On Being Tired

Oct 17, 2024 | Memoir

“She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.” – Virginia Woolf “She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.” – Virginia Woolf I feel this...

35th High School Class Reunion

Oct 13, 2024 | Memoir

After months of preparations and excited planning, the 35th Class Reunion of the Class of 1989 met in Tazewell, Virginia, over the weekend, some members coming from a far away as Alabama (Jeff Price), Arkansas (Robbie Yost), and Florida (Kenny Lowe). Some class...

INTERVIEW: Linda Hooper and Sharon Shadrick

Oct 10, 2024 | Memoir, Writing Life

What do eighth graders in a small Appalachian town in south-central Tennessee know about the Holocaust? More than you’d imagine. I just got back from Whitwell, TN, about thirty-five minutes northwest of Chattanooga, where I interviewed co-authors Linda Hooper and...

Thousand-Year Floods

Sep 27, 2024 | Memoir

This is the second thousand-year flood I have skirted. The first was two years ago when I was trapped for a few hours at the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman, KY, at the Appalachian Writers Workshop. I didn’t leave my safe place high on the hill in Preece to go...

Interview with Denton Loving, Author of Tamp: Poems

Apr 15, 2023 | Writing Life

CAP: I was surprised that there wasn’t a poem called “Tamp” in the collection but noticed that the word is contained within at least two poems in the collection. Why “Tamp” for the title instead of something else? DL: The word “tamp” first appeared in the poem,...

What Is Your Superpower (Or, Some People Think I’m Funny)

Apr 15, 2023 | Uncategorized

I think my superpower would have to be making people laugh. Whether I intend to or not, I’m great at getting people to get their minds off of more serious matters and just laugh for a while. In high school, I made straight A’s, and people who didn’t know me very well...