by K.R. Mullins K.R. Mullins: Thank you so much for speaking with us! I want to start this off by just asking a little bit about your relationship to craft. How do you think about your process of...
by Susan Muth & Tori Reynolds The tradition of the confessional mode is both continued and made anew in Jenny Molberg’s third book, The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023). Through documentary...
by Ashlen Renner I don’t know what is going on with my TikTok algorithm, but I’ve been getting a lot of deer videos on my For You page: Deer crashing through convenience store windows, doorbell...
By Susan Muth and Tori Reynolds I was lucky to get the chance to sit down with Tyler Mills to discuss her chapbook City Scattered: Cabaret for Four Voices (winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award) and...
By Ashlen Renner Coming from a journalism background, I always enjoy reading books that use research to unravel powerful systems that shape our society — and perhaps wrong us. It gives me hope to...
By Bareerah Y. Ghani To say I’m obsessed with Jamil Jan Kochai’s latest collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, would be quite the understatement. It’s a fantastic,...
Timothy Johnson In storytelling, endings are essential. I’m aware of the school of thought that stories aren’t about the endings but the journey; however, as a writer, I usually don’t even...
Megan Pillow Here’s a secret: every night when I go to sleep, I put my dog Lucy’s collar under my pillow. When I toss and turn, I hear the jingle of the tags. It was the sound of her in the...
Bareerah Y. Ghani Dur e Aziz Amna’s riveting debut novel examines adolescence, that no-man’s land of skepticism, anger, and a yearning to at once reclaim yourself and be who the world wants you...
Timothy Johnson I’ve been following Richard Thomas (but not in a weird way) for years. He is not only an exemplary writer, but a shining example of what it means to be a literary community member,...