I belong to the South Island Writers’ Association (SIWA). I joined SIWA around 12 years ago, and was chair for three of those years, including the 50 year anniversary. Last month I was able to do a feature for Flash Frontier on some of the flash-fiction writers at SIWA. Thank you to the wonderful Michelle Elvy at Flash Frontier , who has kindly allowed me to reprint most of it here. The lead interview is with Rata Ingram, my daughter, but not because she's my daughter! but be