Q & A With Paula Whyman

by Susan Sechrist

“I’m drawn to humor in the fiction I read. It gives the reader an out, some relief, to be able to laugh, often at something one wouldn’t want to be seen laughing at in real life.” Continue reading →

Q&A with Jack Livings

By Lisa Peet

There’s a process of shaving away details to make a news story short enough to fit the space it’s been assigned, and with every detail that’s cut, a little bit of nuance is lost. Continue reading →

Living Time, Writing Time: Braiding Two Time Strands

by Jessica Levine

I’ve found that the doubled structure is most likely to be successful when the later point in time has its own forward-moving story. . . . Thus, rule one for works with two time strands: each point in time must generate its own plot. Continue reading →

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Story and The Telling

by Shawn Vestal

The gap between the story’s events and the telling — omissions, limitations, manipulations of time, voice, the metaphorical landscape — comes to feel, at least to me, . . . like the essence of what literature is. Continue reading →