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Interview: Nicholas Packwood

This month's author discusses Richard Nixon, George Orwell, and how to write after quitting smoking.

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Apr 14, 2026
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As a thank you to our paid subscribers, we post interviews with each of our authors to go along with their story. This month we interview Nicholas Packwood, author of Salt Memory.

How do you view religion in your own life and how does that influence religion in the worlds you create?

I’m an imperfect follower of Christ and I’m trying to take up my cross. That’s not every perspective I’m writing from but I’m trying to write from a perspective I’d recognize in spirit. We all fall short of the mark, we can’t make every choice, we always choose what we’ll compromise.

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Nicholas Packwood has taught game writing at George Brown Polytechnic, Toronto since 2009 and been program coordinator for Screenwriting & Narrative Design since 2015. Currently on hiatus, he appears to be taking refuge in folk horror.
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