{"id":5179,"date":"2020-09-03T07:31:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2020-09-03T07:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:45:56","slug":"my-chapter-16-qa-with-renee-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=5179","title":{"rendered":"My <em>Chapter 16<\/em> Q&#038;A with Ren\u00e9e Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/7pics\/2020\/09\/ways to make sunshine cover small.jpg\" border=1><br \/>\n<BR>&nbsp;<BR><br \/>\nI had the pleasure once again of interviewing author <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneewatson.net\/\">Ren\u00e9e Watson<\/a><\/strong>. We chat over at Tennessee&#8217;s <em>Chapter 16<\/em>. Ren\u00e9e will speak at the 2020 Southern Festival of Books (a Nashville event that will be virtual this year). She will be in conversation with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/megmedina.com\/\">Meg Medina<\/a><\/strong> on October 8; see the full festival schedule <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanitiestennessee.org\/programs-grants\/core-program-overview\/southern-festival-of-books-2020\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>She and I discuss <em>Ways to Make Sunshine<\/em>, illustrated by artist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beautifique.org\/index.html\">Nina Mata<\/a><\/strong>; the future of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/news-and-features\/articles\/holding-fast-dream-renee-watson\/\">I, Too Arts Collective<\/a><\/strong>; Portland; her hopes for children&#8217;s book publishing today; and more. <\/p>\n<p>That interview is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter16.org\/making-sunshine-nurturing-change\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had the pleasure once again of interviewing author Ren\u00e9e Watson. We chat over at Tennessee&#8217;s Chapter 16. Ren\u00e9e will speak at the 2020 Southern Festival of Books (a Nashville event that will be virtual this year). She will be in conversation with Meg Medina on October 8; see the full festival schedule here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate","category-blogger-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}