Annie Dawid
Annie Dawid teaches online for the University of Denver, University College graduate creative writing program. She writes and makes art in the Wet Mountain Valley of South-Central Colorado, where she raised her formidable son.
Annie Dawid’s fifth book, Put Off My Sackcloth, was published in 2021 by The Humble Essayist Press. It was runner-up in the Los Angeles Book Festival 2021 autobiography category, and finalist in the Book Excellence memoir category and the Rubery International Book Award non-fiction category. Previously, her short story ‘Kenny, Winking’ won the 2022 ChipLitFest Short Story Contest and her novel York Ferry won the 2016 International Rubery Award in Fiction.
Q: What is the first book you remember reading or having read to you as a child?
A: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh is the book that molded me into a writer. I still have the copy my mother inscribed for me on my tenth birthday.
Q: Do you have a favourite quote? (From a book, film, song, speech…)
A: ‘The beauty of the world has two edges… one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.’ Virginia Woolf
Q: Is there a book that you keep going back to, and if so, how many times have you read it?
A: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, written in 2012, chronicling a pandemic that destroys most of the world, creating beauty out of the chaos.
Q: What is the least interesting part of writing for you?
A: Computers
