Spotlight On Writers – Martha Annice

Spotlight On Writers

Martha Annice

@ANNICE31245245

1. Where, do you hail from?

2. What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?

I love feeling my feet tingle as I walk on the ground of my childhood. I sense my mother’s smile as I start planting flowers in the yard. I did not realize that I would feel this at home in my mind, body, and Spirit. I do not live in the ‘good’ part of town, but my home is my heaven on earth.

3. What turns you on creatively?

4. What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence/What is your pet peeve?

My favorite word is they, but also it is my pet peeve when people use ‘they’ to explain their opinion. I wrote a poem about they. Wanna hear it? Here it goes!

They pinch, pry, and prance ideas
On backs of souls they do not know
They love and love until it’s a lie.

5. What defines Martha Annice?

Grandmother Martha’s quietness and the ingrained image of her kneeling in the morning, evening prayer, and homemade apple cobbler. Annie, my mother and Bernice, my aunt decided I could not exist unless I carried their spunk, laughter, and love of life in their conjoined names.

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Martha Annice

I write stories based on my childhood in Lebanon, Tennessee where I grew up in the African American community as the daughter of the town bootlegger. Growing up in a small southern town was not always easy, but growing up as the child of the bootlegger was even more difficult—and always interesting. What I hope to accomplish in my writing is to preserve this life in small-town Tennessee after the Second World War, especially the lives of the people that I loved in these small towns. This life and these people will be lost if not preserved in stories. I hope to preserve characters, their situations, and their voices in my stories because I do not want them to be lost. I am fairly new to the area of creative writing, but I have studied writing and worked with a mentor at Middle Tennessee State University in the MTSU WRITE program.

Latest posts by Martha Annice (see all)

• For The Love of God - August 9, 2022
• Jealousy - May 22, 2022
• Spotlight On Writers – Martha Annice - April 23, 2022

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