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Awards and Shelf Space
Shelf space.
It’s something many newer writers clamor for.
They want to see their books on bookstore shelves. Oh, the honor! Oh, the delight!
Well, one ‘bookstore’ is offering that opportunity—for a price.
Read MoreRemembering Etel Adnan
Her advice to budding artists: “…being an artist means you’ll always be a little insecure and a little unsure, because you don’t know where you’re going a lot of the time–every act of creation is new. You may have feedback and there are moments when people will give you reassurance, but you won’t have that always. But that’s true of life in general, and people make too big a fuss over the struggles of being an artist, as though an artist’s humanity is different from anyone else’s, as though we are a different kind of creature. It’s not. We are not. Keep going.”
She was 87 when her art work found a wide audience but she didn’t need it saying, “I always had a few people who liked what I did and that was enough.”
