Something Unseen Building: An Interview with Kelsey Ipsen
More than anything else, it is this natural ear for sounds that makes Kelsey’s fiction stand out; her characters and their movements are given form by it.
How These Words Lean on You: An Interview with Ben Purkert
The kind of ending that Purkert is in love with, is that most important part of a successful poem: the audible click of a final line.
Trace: An Interview with Melanie Figg
Melanie Figg’s new full-length poetry collection Trace gives voice to family, feminism, and individual history through the lens of art.
Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 4
Jennifer Fliss and Jennifer Todhunter discuss grief, parenting, resilience, and catharsis.
Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 3
Cathy Ulrich and Chaya Bhuvaneswar discuss finding a story's pulse, finding time to write, and engaging in community.
Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 2
Michele Finn Johnson and Tommy Dean discuss saving characters, hearing voices, and giving back to the literary community.
Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 1
Tara Isabel Zambrano and Christopher Allen discuss expanding The Moment in flash fiction, stirring the bubbling pot of character, and knowing when a draft is done.
Ways We Vanish: A Conversation with Todd Dillard
The map of human life isn’t a line, and I wanted to show that here. Life can look like a phone call coming from your chest, a door in the middle of the woods, a moon that, for a time, sings, and then is never heard again.