I&F - Writers to Watch Issue – June/July 2015

June/July 2015

Writers to Watch

Interviews, Book Recommendations, Short Stories, and More!

Ink and Fairydust Managing Editor Courtney Seybold Assistant Editor Sarah Levesque

Contents Editor’s Note

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Pen Ink and Mascara

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Illustrators Mary MacArthur, Anna MacArthur, and Courtney Seybold

Author Interviews

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Proofreader Marie Jeannette

Divergent Review

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Follow the Leader

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Submissions Editor Elizabeth Troup Graphics Editors Kristina Martell and Courtney Seybold

Authors Marie Jeannette, Rosaria Marie, Courtney Seybold, Elizabeth Troup, and Una Van Der Stroom Photographer Megan Dominick Mr. Wade Font Courtesy of www.kevinandamanda.com

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Questions? Ask@iandfmag.com

by Courtney Seybold

by Elizabeth Troup

by Various Authors

by Una Van Der Stroom

by Marie Jeannette

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The Castle on the Hill

by Courtney Seybold

The Tenth of April

by Marie Jeannette

The Ravens of Rhondda

by Rosaria Marie

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Looking for Something New to Read?

by Various Authors

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Ink and Fairydust June/July 2015 Ink and Fairydust is a free emagazine and blog created by teens and young adults. We seek to inspire with a mix of creativity and faith.

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Editor’s Note Courtney Seybold

Dear Readers, How’s it going? To be honest I wasn’t sure we could pull this off, but here it is: the first of Ink and Fairydust’s renewed bimonthly issues (and isn’t that a mouthful?). Of course, there are several people who need to be thanked for the enormous amount of work they put into making this issue—and Ink and Fairydust itself, really—possible. Among them are our amazing new Submissions and Assistant Editors, Elizabeth Troup and Sarah Levesque, who put countless hours into getting everything together and polished; our previous Managing Editor, who was endlessly patient with me and so very helpful as I learned my way around Ink and Fairydust, and who also provided incredible writing and brilliant graphic layouts for this issue; Marie Jeanette, who took on the bulk of proofreading these articles; and, of course, all of our contributing authors who’ve shared their talent with us in this June/July edition of Ink and Fairydust.

This issue is a bit special for another reason, since our theme was Writers to Watch, and we had the good fortune to find four different authors of various backgrounds and interests to feature. They took the time to answer our staff ’s questions about writing and their experiences in the delightful interviews found on pages 4-16.

We hope you find some entertainment in our stories, learn some things from our interviews, and enjoy the reading of this issue as much as we enjoyed the making of it. Until next time!

Yours Sincerely,

Courtney Seybold Managing Editor

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Coming August 2015: The Great Outdoors!

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