Episode 80: Interview with Author Anna Mitchael

In Episode 80 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Anna Mitchael about her new book, They Will Tell You the World Is Yours.

Anna is a Texas-based author whose body of work quietly yet consistently asks the question: How do we find our way in the world? In her 25-year career she has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director, deputy editor of Magnolia Journal, and is a bestselling ghostwriter. Her new book, They Will Tell You the World Is Yours, is out now. Anna writes a monthly column in Wacoan, where she moonlights as a scrappy and spirited advice-giver named “Boots,” and a weekly Substack called Little Rebellions. She and her husband and kids live in Waco, Texas.

In this interview, Anna talks about the little rebellions that make our lives, finding creative inspiration outside of outlines and routines, publishing a novel in vignettes, and much more…