How to Let Setting Grow Your Story With George Hovis

In this episode, author and professor George Hovis discusses strategies for finding the mysterious, the surreal, and the sublime available in everyday landscapes and explores how setting gives birth to characters and plots–and how, in turn, the actions of characters define a place.  Access the episode HERE.

George is a professor of English at SUNY Oneonta in Upstate New York and author of “The Skin Artist,” an edgy story set in the shadows of the shiny banking city we know as Charlotte, North Carolina. We look at how George happened upon the Gothic side of Charlotte while writing his novel and how he challenges writers to discover the mystery lurking in their own stories.