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Bill Nagelkerke

writer, profile published in BRAT, Spring 2000

I suspect I'm one of those writers who thinks, deep down, that the story should do the telling, not the person who wrote it. Nevertheless I know from my own experience of meeting and listening to other writers, as well as talking with children in schools, that making the connection between the story and the writer is both fascinating and important in itself. What it reveals is that we are all storytellers and that stories have the power to bring us together. I also value the opportunity, through school visits, to receive feedback. After a visit where I shared a brand new story, some of the children told me it took too long to get to the action. And they were absolutely right. Having had a poem reprinted recently in an anthology that included two other Bills - Shakespeare and Wordsworth - it was good to be brought back to earth!