“The uncomfortable discomfort”: A Conversation with Sara Lynne Puotinen
Sara Lynne Puotinen lives in south Minneapolis, near the Mississippi River Gorge, where she reads and writes and…
“The want to tell a story”: An Interview with Helena Pantsis
"I have a never-ending stream of narratives in my mind that I have to get out and refine into something worth reading."
“Creating a Bridge”: A Conversation with Raina K. Puels
As much as I do love a tidy ending, I love something with no resolution, and I try to do that in my own work as much as possible.
“Embracing time and space”: An Interview with Ryleigh Wann
"My motivation to return to the page is the belief that poetry is magic."
“What else is possible?”: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer
"Eventually, it became clear that this is really a love story — as much as what it means to love and accept oneself as it is about romantic love with another person."
“When the rest of the world says no”: An Interview with Beth Kephart
"My number one ambition, always, is to create a community in which competition is banished (there shall be no "best") and personal growth is celebrated. Within such a trusting, open, can-I-say-loving environment, extraordinary things unfold."
“At a certain point, you have to let the story go”: An Interview with Deirdre Danklin
"I’m always interested in how relationships grow and change over time, especially long-term friendships that start in childhood."
“That initial spark”: An Interview with Amanda Paige Inman
"I hope my work will inspire readers to think of how the mistreatment of nature leaks into our day-to-day lives. I want people to think of how patterns in our personal lives echo patterns that occur in the natural world."
“Hope and possibility”: An Interview with Allegra Hyde
"Environmental activism must, in my opinion, go hand-in-hand with social justice efforts; it must be integrated into the project of dismantling power structures and in service of creating more equitable societies."
“Bewitched by the process”: An Interview with S.S. Mandani
S.S. Mandani runs a coffee shop and writes in New York City. He studied fiction at the University…
“Dig into the why”: An Interview with Caitlin Barasch
"I don't think any writer can bring sufficient energy to a project if they don’t know what they’re passionate about or what they most want to say."
“A Glimpse Into What Could Be”: An Interview with Chloe N. Clark
"My authority is that I often know I’m not an authority, which means I’m usually asking something in poems."
“Stark true experiences”: An Interview with Hannah Grieco
"The more of these unusual pieces I wrote, the more I wanted to write, and the more I wanted to read from other parents."
“Contextualize the missing pieces”: An Interview with Kimberly Rooney 高小荣
"Sometimes it takes months to return to a piece because I need time to become the version of myself who knows how the piece ends. It might be a new life experience or friendship — or temporal distance from an experience or relationship ending — that helps contextualize the missing pieces, and I love the process of discovery that comes with writing."
“Looping back”: An Interview with Kari Flickinger
"A lot of times we writers create these beautiful pieces that highlight trauma, and then we share that work, and we live in those trauma-tinged words, and it feels immense."
“Make the space”: An Interview with Kay E. Bancroft
Kay E. Bancroft (they/them) is a queer non-binary poet, educator, editor, and reviewer from Cincinnati, OH. They hold…
“A poem is never done”: An Interview with Caleb Nichols
Caleb Nichols (he/they) is a writer from California, occupying Tilhini, the Place of the Full Moon, the unceded…
“Turning the tragedy into a tale”: An Interview with Rachel A.G. Gilman
Rachel A.G. Gilman’s work has been published in journals throughout the U.S., U.K., and Australia. She is the…
“Rely on instinct”: An Interview with Beth Meko
Beth Meko grew up in north central West Virginia and currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her short fiction…
“Write a thousand beginnings”: An Interview with Carli Cutchin
Carli Cutchin is a writer, critic, and hot springs aficionado based in Berkeley, California. Her works has appeared…
“Opaque memories, reconstructed through fabrication”: An Interview with Renato Barucco
Renato is an American writer in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in Fiction International, Ellipsis Zine, Not One of…
“Truth commingles in sound”: An Interview with Aaron Landsman
Aaron Landsman is an artist-in-residence at Abrons Arts Center on New York City’s Lower East Side. Upcoming and…
“Time really is the best editor”: An Interview with Jennifer Fliss
Jennifer Fliss (she/her) is a Seattle-based writer whose writing has appeared in F(r)iction, The Rumpus, No Tokens, and…
“I am a fan of silence”: An Interview with Lydia Kim
Lydia Kim has had an essay appear at Catapult, a postcard at HAD, a fable in Ursa Minor, and a rant…
“Let’s stash our coats somewhere and go find the snack table”: An Interview with Lindsey Pharr
Lindsey Pharr (she/her) is a Mississippi native living in a cabin in the woods outside of Marshall, North…
“Get weird! Then get weirder”: An Interview with Katie McMorris
Katie McMorris is a writer and dancer. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Click here to read Katie’s…
“Treat writing as a priority:” An Interview with Lindy Biller
Lindy Biller lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two kids. Her fiction has recently appeared at Chestnut Review, X-R-A-Y, Superfroot…
“Start with truth”: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun
Massoud Hayoun is a journalist based in Los Angeles. He wrote a decolonial memoir of his grandparents and…
“Clear the slate”: An Interview with H.E. Fisher
H.E. Fisher is a multi-genre writer whose work appears or is forthcoming in Indianapolis Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Canary, Poetica…
“Always be observing”: An Interview with Eric Scot Tryon
Eric Scot Tryon is a writer from Northern California. His work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Willow Springs, Monkeybicycle, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, trampset, Berkeley…
Challenge and Celebration: An Interview with Rebecca Fishow
A lot of time, the "magic" is a manifestation of a feeling.
Ending in Laughter: On Grief & Trauma
At the end, there’s no answer, but ending in laughter and nostalgia leaves room for hope.
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.