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Souvankham Thammavongsa

writer, poet

Canada · b. 1978

Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian-Canadian poet and author. In 2019, she won an O.

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Question How much rewriting or revision do you do? Craft & work read 33 other answers →

I just write whatever comes to mind, and I tell myself that nobody is going to see this. Just get it all down. That first draft that I did in six weeks, I wouldn’t even call that a first draft. I would call it the ugly draft, the draft that you arrive at before you call it a first draft. And everything is wrong with it. There’s no clear idea of voice or character. I’m just in there trying to find the feeling, like what do I want this work to feel like when I get it done? And to see the material that I’m interested in.

Recorded Jancie Creaney, The Creative Independent interview, 8 May 2026 source ↗

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