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Join me with hosts Ragon Duffy and Kelly Gerner as we talk Anne of Green Gables, adaptation vs. homage, and idyllic summers on Mackinac Island. With digressions covering everything from book bans to ADHD representation to the inspiring power of Jonathan Crombie, this is a discussion you won’t want to miss.
BookTrib interview on the magic of Oz…and Ireland!
Essays and stuff
Being Anne: Writing in the New Year, She Writes, January 2026.
Connecting Through Story, Women Writers, Women’s Books, January 20, 2026.
Virginia Kantra: On Rewriting and Reimagining Childhood Favorites, Writer’s Digest, December 21, 2023.
Virginia Kantra and Sonali Dev, “Frank Baum and the Suffragettes,” Always Authors podcast, Season 3, Episode 3.
Five Classic Stories (and Their Retellings) That Challenge the Patriarchy by Virginia Kantra, The Mary Sue, December 4, 2023.
How Would the Sisters of Little Women Experience the World Today? On Updating a Classic by Virginia Kantra, Lit Hub, May 26, 2021.
Virginia Kantra on Why Your Story Matters | Librarians’ Day, RWA 2020 by Annalisa Pesek, Library Journal, September 2, 2020.
“Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be”: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’.” Julia Alvarez, Virginia Kantra, Anna Quindlen, Sonia Sanchez and Jennifer Weiner talk about how the book, now a hit movie, inspired them. New York Times, December 31, 2019.
The Stories that Make Us: Finding Your Voice by Virginia Kantra Women Writers, Women’s Books, December 3, 2019.
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