The Boy and the Pennies – McKenna Princing
McKenna Princing’s project for the 2024 Jack Straw Writers Program is a collection of fairy tale retellings set in the Pacific Northwest that focuses on social justice issues. In her conversation with curator Nisi Shawl, she delves into the stories she wrote as a kid, the process of writing characters with underrepresented identities, and why she gravitates to fairy tales and horror as a genre. “There’s often some kind of truth being expressed in that kind of storytelling that is interesting to unpack and delve into a little bit more.”
Music by EarthtoneSkytone, produced in part through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program.
