The Note

I sat with the note in my lap, stunned and glad to be alone in the kitchen. The laundry gave me something to do with my hands while I settled my mind. Continue reading →

An Excerpt from Adele Holmes’s debut novel, Winter’s Reckoning

In August, She Writes Press will release Adele Holmes’s debut novel, Winter’s Reckoning, which won an Honorable Mention in the 2021 William Faulkner Literary Competition. Continue reading →

An Excerpt from Melanie Mitzner’s novel, Slow Reveal

So what if sobriety made him coherent. His mind was a refuse bin for advertising concepts. Blasphemy, plain and simple. Although she wanted to talk about it, she wouldn’t for fear a confrontation would send him back to the gin with a virulence. Continue reading →

Maud Newton on Ancestors, Imaginative Spirituality, and Old School Blogging

by Lisa Peet

“It was a tricky balance for me to go into this in a receptive spirit, and to find what might work for me in this way of looking at the relationship between the living family and the dead family.” Continue reading →

“Diamond District” and “Sleeping” from Katharine Weber’s collection, Jane of Hearts and Other Stories

“Let the stone tell you what it wants to be and allow it to become that thing,” the old man whispered. Isabel peered through the loupe and bent over her grandfather’s work table. Continue reading →

“Thinking of 40 as the Starting Gate”: Q & A with Jan Beatty

I wanted to write the book that I’d been looking for my entire life and never found. Continue reading →

An Excerpt from Maureen Oehler DuRant’s debut poetry collection, Skirmishes on the Oakie-Irish Border

“DuRant’s poems skirmish at the fraught edges of language, winning ground page by page “in a battle to claim turf where tongues can hold their own.” ” Continue reading →