{"id":4845,"date":"2024-11-14T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T19:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2024-11-15T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T15:45:29","slug":"national-book-award-week-julia-glass-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/2024\/11\/14\/national-book-award-week-julia-glass-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Creative Writing Faculty: Julia Glass &amp; the National Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Every November, the literary world, filled with publishers, editors, and authors, celebrates the distinguished National Book Awards. From November 7th through the 13th, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/\"><strong>National Boo<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>k Foundation<\/strong><\/a> honors groundbreaking voices that have crafted stories that resonate with readers around the world. A tradition since 1950, the National Book Foundation bestows five awards that recognize outstanding works. The categories include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people&#8217;s literature. And, according to the <em>New York Times,<\/em> the National Book Awards is one of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/about-us\/mission-history\/#:~:text=In%202017%2C%20the%20New%20York,world's%20most%20prestigious%20literary%20prizes.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>the world\u2019s most prestigious literary prizes<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To join the celebration, we\u2019re spotlighting one of Emerson\u2019s very own winners. I was honored to chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/emerson.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/julia-glass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Julia \u201cJulie\u201d Glass<\/strong><\/a>, Emerson\u2019s Senior Distinguished Writer-in-Residence since 2016, about one of her many remarkable achievements. In 2002, Julie\u2019s debut novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/60653\/three-junes-by-julia-glass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><strong>Three Junes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>was honored with the National Book Award for Fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Julie shares her journey from painter, to pet journalist, to award-winning author and professor. She offers insight into her creative process, the journey before and after winning the National Book Award, and advice for aspiring authors. Spoiler alert: she was rejected for seven years before finally hearing that&nbsp;magical word: \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the author of six published books, Julie has many accomplishments up her sleeve. She&#8217;s won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/english\/creative-writing\/binghamton-center-for-writers\/john-gardner-book-awards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Binghamton University John Gardner Award for Fiction<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelwritingworld.com\/edward-stanford-travel-writing-awards-2024-shortlist-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sense of Place Award<\/strong><\/a>, and fellowships from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/grants\/creative-writing-fellowships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>National Endowment for the Arts<\/strong><\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyfa.org\/awards-grants\/artist-fellowships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>New York Foundation for the Arts<\/strong><\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radcliffe.harvard.edu\/radcliffe-fellowship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study<\/strong><\/a>. Read on to hear about what it means to be part of the National Book Awards&#8217; esteemed literary tradition and how it has shaped Julie\u2019s role as a writer and teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_30a9c4-3a .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_30a9c4-3a .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_30a9c4-3a\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Can you tell us about your journey leading up to writing your book, <em>Three Junes<\/em>? What were some pivotal moments that shaped your voice as a writer?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"881\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/Julie-portrait-881x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait headshot of Julie Glass.\" class=\"wp-image-4846\" style=\"width:361px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/Julie-portrait-881x1024.jpg 881w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/Julie-portrait-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/Julie-portrait-768x893.jpg 768w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/Julie-portrait-1321x1536.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/Julie-portrait-1761x2048.jpg 1761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 881px) 100vw, 881px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What surprises many people is that I didn\u2019t see myself as a fiction writer until my early thirties. From college until then, my ambition was to succeed as a painter\u2013but I supported myself with the language skills I somehow took for granted. I was a proofreader, then a copy editor, then a developmental editor\u2013and then, of all things, a pet journalist! My first published writing was a column in <em>Glamour<\/em> magazine called &#8216;Animal Love.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But for several&nbsp; years, all this word-work went to subsidize my drawing and painting. Meanwhile, however, I was avidly, voraciously reading fiction: all the books I\u2019d\u2019ve read if I\u2019d majored in English, and much more. I began to realize that no work of art will ever move me more than a great work of literature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So here I was, paying the rent as a writer; why wasn\u2019t I trying my hand at stories? The next half dozen years were tough, because I had to start from scratch; I opted not to get an MFA but to tough it out on my own. I published my first short story (a runner-up in the Chicago Tribune\u2019s Nelson Algren Fiction Awards) at age 37, and then I wrote a story that became a novella that ultimately became the novel <em>THREE JUNES<\/em>. It was published when I was 46 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In terms of what might have shaped my \u201cvoice,\u201d I can say this much: I\u2019m a very visual writer. Nothing gives me greater pleasure in writing my stories than putting my readers in a particular place\u2013definitely the vestige of all those years I spent looking hard at the world around me and trying to render it on paper and canvas.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_4df7ff-e9 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_4df7ff-e9 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_4df7ff-e9\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What did the submission process look like? How did you feel when you learned you had won the National Book Award for <em>Three Junes<\/em>? Was it something you had imagined happening when you first began writing the book?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Authors do not submit their own books for the National Book Award; publishers do. Because they spend money to do so, they\u2019ll be very selective about what titles they put forward. The awards are administered by the National Book Foundation, which funds literacy programs of many kinds, and the money they bring in through administering the awards, including the high price of tickets to attend the ceremony, goes toward those worthy projects. I did not know this until my editor told me that my publisher would be nominating <em>THREE JUNES<\/em> for a number of awards. Since I had earned some good reviews but hadn\u2019t hit bestseller lists, I was grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/image-660x1024.png\" alt=\"Book cover of &quot;Three Junes&quot; with the National Book Award Winner stamp.\" class=\"wp-image-4849\" style=\"width:218px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/image-660x1024.png 660w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/image-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/image-768x1191.png 768w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/image.png 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Three Junes<\/em> was published by Pantheon Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As for fantasizing about awards, the one I hoped to have a chance at was the <a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/program\/pen-hemingway-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PEN Hemingway Award<\/strong><\/a>, a prize for debut fiction only. The day I found out that my book was a finalist for the NBA, I was in shock (honestly, so was my publisher!). I found out through a phone call from the head of the foundation, who looked me up in the Manhattan phone book (yes, it was that long ago!). I was folding laundry and waiting for my two small children to be delivered home by a babysitter who took them to the park. At first I thought the call was a prank!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I thoroughly enjoyed the month of being a finalist and knew I wasn\u2019t favored to win. This is one of the few literary prizes whose winners are revealed only at the ceremony, not beforehand. (The judges meet that afternoon to make their final decisions.) As the chair of the fiction committee stood onstage and described the novel that he was about to reveal as the winner, my husband\u2019s eyes filled with tears; he recognized right away that the book being described was mine, though I did not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Let me tell you that when your name is announced as the winner of such a huge honor in a room where <em>one thousand<\/em> people from the book world are in attendance, it is a miracle to stand up, let alone walk to the stage\u2013where my trophy was handed to me by none other than Steve Martin! I knew that hardly anyone there had heard of me or my book before I was a finalist, but when I spoke the name of my agent\u2013in acceptance remarks she had forced me to prepare, even though we &#8216;knew&#8217; I wouldn\u2019t win\u2013a murmur went up through the room, and I understood how lucky I was to have been in her capable hands from the start. The year that followed was a fairytale.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_d16d14-61 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_d16d14-61 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_d16d14-61\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Since winning the National Book Award in 2002, have you noticed shifts in the publishing industry? What are some challenges and opportunities for emerging writers today, in your opinion?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The publishing industry has changed <em>enormously<\/em> since 2002, when the impact of Amazon and e-books on book sales and on authors\u2019 income were only just becoming apparent. Some publishers were also struggling for other reasons, so this was when a number of takeovers and mergers began to take place, most notably the growth of what is now the Penguin Random House group.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of the greatest challenges for emerging authors, in my opinion, is the outsize importance of social media. If I were trying to find an agent today, I\u2019d probably fail; to many, part of a prospective author\u2019s chances are tied not just to the quality of their work but to their &#8216;platform&#8217; and number of followers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Another challenge is that as serious mainstream journalism withers, so does the coverage of book news. At the same time, if an author is enterprising, they can find publicity through the growing number of online book lovers\u2019 podcasts, blogs, etc. But that\u2019s hard, time-consuming, sometimes costly work. The days of handing that work over to the publisher are mostly gone. Many authors I know, even those at major publishers, now hire their own publicists.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you are a book lover, I urge you to go out of your way to support independent booksellers, both in person and online! (Go, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshop.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a>!) Many wonderful books would sink beneath the waves, unread, if there were no dedicated booksellers, real people at real stores, to get them off shelves and into readers\u2019 hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/170823_BN-012-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Bookcase in a store with several miscellaneous books and photos of authors in black and white.\" class=\"wp-image-4850\" style=\"width:781px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/170823_BN-012-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/170823_BN-012-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/170823_BN-012-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/170823_BN-012-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/170823_BN-012-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_b540f9-93 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_b540f9-93 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_b540f9-93\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>For graduate students who are pursuing publication, how would you describe the role of resilience in building a writing career? What advice would you give them for navigating its highs and lows?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a question to which the answers haven\u2019t changed much since I started writing and hoping to publish my own stories. Looking back, I can\u2019t believe I endured submitting stories to journals for <em>seven years<\/em> before finally hearing YES. Most sane people would have quit. So what I say, only half-joking, is that success often requires not just determination but denial. (That includes shutting out the voices of well-meaning relatives who keep asking when you\u2019re going to get a &#8216;real job.&#8217; Though by the way, you usually need such a job to feed and house your hungry, self-centered imagination.) I didn\u2019t even have a community of fellow writers back then; now that I do, I am deeply grateful. That community\u2013which is a great deal of what an MFA program offers\u2013is essential as a place to share the slings and arrows of such a lonely pursuit.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_794055-62 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_794055-62 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_794055-62\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>As someone who\u2019s spent years in the writing industry, how do you sustain your creativity over time? How do you stay excited about new projects?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I sustain my love of writing through my love of reading. I strive to offer inspiration as a writing instructor, but I\u2019m quick to tell my students that their best teachers will always be the writers they read, many of them long dead. It\u2019s crucial to read as much as possible and as widely as possible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Recognize your comfort zone and travel often beyond its borders. Only by staying curious do you stay creative. It\u2019s also important to recognize that we\u2019re not always on fire. Sometimes writing is drudgery, and sometimes you just stop writing for a while. It happens. I have never been an advocate of write-every-day-or-else. Writer\u2019s block is as much a fallacy as plumber\u2019s block or hairdresser\u2019s block. Ever board a plane and hear that your flight\u2019s been canceled due to pilot\u2019s block?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_276c56-96 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_276c56-96 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_276c56-96\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Is there one piece of advice that you hope will leave an impact on your grad students?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One of the great gifts of writing as a student is the community you build. Whether you\u2019re an undergraduate or graduate student, find the writers with whom you have compatible philosophies, who support your work yet push you to reach higher. The more different the content of your collective work, the better. Stay in touch with one another, even if you don\u2019t always share the writing itself. Find solidarity for the work you do in solitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/210801_Boston-004-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Two students sitting on a blank by the lake in the Boston Public Garden.\" class=\"wp-image-4853\" style=\"width:614px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/210801_Boston-004-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/210801_Boston-004-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/210801_Boston-004-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/210801_Boston-004-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/grad-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/210801_Boston-004-2048x1367.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_9d4b28-76 .kt-block-spacer{height:20px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-4845_9d4b28-76 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-4845_9d4b28-76\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">As we look forward to next November\u2019s National Book Award Week, Emerson is grateful to have an amazing resource like Julia Glass as a professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/emerson.edu\/academics\/academic-departments\/writing-literature-publishing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WLP department<\/strong><\/a>. Julie\u2019s journey to success is a reminder that our wildest dreams are within our reach and that awards represent much more than simple recognition. Her path from painter to award-winning author of <em>Three Junes<\/em> and more is an inspiration to each aspiring writer within Emerson\u2019s graduate community and beyond.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every November, the literary world, filled with publishers, editors, and authors, celebrates the distinguished National Book Awards. 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