Contest Submissions Now Open! — UPDATE
Fiction judged by David Means
Poetry judged by Matthea Harvey
Nonfiction judged by Mary Roach
POETRY AND NONFICTION NOW EXTENDED TO DEC 31...
The Past in Nonfiction
Suzanne Berne writes about her search for a grandmother she never knew, a mother her father never knew: her grandmother died when her father was a little...
An interview with Mary Roach
Roach: "The whole wall behind his desk was filled with television screens of eyes that were currently being operated on! So, I’m trying to interview him, and behind...
An Interview with Manuel Munoz
Munoz: "It’s camera movement. When a camera closes in on someone, I’m startled every time, it’s almost unnoticeable. And I’m sort of mimicking that, where I...
A Book About Business for the Self
We’re so self-interested that we’ll buy anything that supposedly will make us better, happier—we’ll buy things that explain our memories to us, that tidy...
Fall for the Book: Writing Africa Panel
The panel featured readings by Helon Habila, E. C. Osondu, and Susi Wyss. These three distinct voices offered engaging and completely different stories inspired by...
Letter from the Editor
Of course, if you’re reading this, then chances are you’re already familiar with the magazine—perhaps even aware that we’ve been around for quite awhile....
The Best Way to Drink Tea
The most ostensible feature of Fauteux’s work in this book is its “edginess,” an obsessive compulsive turning-things-over reflected in the restlessness of...
Forty Years of Phoebe
If I begin by saying that Phoebe changed my life, will I lose all credibility? I intend no hyperbole; Phoebe exposed me to a multiplicity of writers and writing...