An Excerpt from Cheryl Krauter’s memoir, Odyssey of Ashes

“You can’t go alone,” Diane says… Continue reading →

Beginner’s Mind vs. the Dark House

by Lisa Peet

I craved—I still crave—transcendence, some kind of transformation to click through the plodding circuits in my brain and fire them up again, one by one, turning the lights back on. Continue reading →

There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late: Q & A with Morowa Yejidé

by Alice Stephens

“There is no writing life—there’s just your life and how writing fits into it.” Continue reading →

A Channeling of Rage: Q & A with David Winner

by Y.S. Fing

“We should not assume that anything coming out of our government and military is necessarily competent and well though-out.” Continue reading →

GO FIGURE: The Hyperbola Stories – Part 2 Half Measures

By Susan Sechrist

“It only took me about 15 minutes to puzzle together the pieces and while they didn’t fit seamlessly, they made a crazy kind of sense that felt, well, mysteriously algorithmic, like we’d tapped into some secret second nature that hides inside narrative.” Continue reading →

Robert Gipe on the Canard County Trilogy, Arts Activism, and Paying Attention

by Lisa Peet

“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading →

Making Funny Things Into Art: Q & A with Sari Rosenblatt

by Martha Anne Toll

“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading →