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“Looking at like the same moon”: A Conversation with Matt Hsu

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • August 31, 2022
"It's not just about the words, but it's also about how you put the words onto the paper."
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“The truths that only live in your mind”: An Interview with Sara Streeter

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • August 24, 2022
"How does someone process and grieve being separated from their entire biological family — by distance, language, and culture? What does that feel like?"
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“Your story matters”: An Interview with Mary Ann O’Gorman

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • August 17, 2022
We live in a world with so many distractions, but syntax, getting the words to work together to form a new thing, pulls me out of the chaos and keeps me coming back.
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“There is still time”: An Interview with Laetitia Keok

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • August 10, 2022
"I return to the page because it has always felt like the most natural thing to do, and because it is most often the only thing I know to do."
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“Writers retreat, party of one”: An Interview with Theresa Okokon

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • August 3, 2022
"Sometimes I will write a draft just to push through something and get it out, and then I'll let it sit for months on end and come back to it."
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“Individual versus collective grief”: A Conversation with Shlagha Borah

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • July 27, 2022
"When we are on the receiving end of news, there is a lack of transparency, and that actually gives birth to indifference. How do I feel about someone when I don't even know their name?"
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“A process of discovery”: An Interview with Alexa Doran

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • July 20, 2022
I think storytelling is a trauma response. You live in a world that crushes you, so you try to build a world that snowglobes you out of there.
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“The Dazzle-out”: A Conversation with Maria Picone

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • July 13, 2022
“There are poems that teach us how to read in such a manner as to eclipse our normal perceptions, our normal state of being. That's something that I think is really powerful about the hybrid form: you can portray things not just through words but through presentation.”
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“Following the words”: An Interview with Mordecai Martin

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • July 6, 2022
"When I'm inspired, there gets to be a hot feeling behind my eyes, and I need to get it out."
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“The uncomfortable discomfort”: A Conversation with Sara Lynne Puotinen

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • June 29, 2022
Sara Lynne Puotinen lives in south Minneapolis, near the Mississippi River Gorge, where she reads and writes and…
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“The want to tell a story”: An Interview with Helena Pantsis

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • June 22, 2022
"I have a never-ending stream of narratives in my mind that I have to get out and refine into something worth reading."
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“Creating a Bridge”: A Conversation with Raina K. Puels

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • June 15, 2022
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.
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“Embracing time and space”: An Interview with Ryleigh Wann

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • May 18, 2022
"My motivation to return to the page is the belief that poetry is magic."
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“What else is possible?”: An Interview with Rebecca van Laer

  • byKay E. Bancroft
  • May 11, 2022
"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."
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“When the rest of the world says no”: An Interview with Beth Kephart

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • May 4, 2022
"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."
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“At a certain point, you have to let the story go”: An Interview with Deirdre Danklin

  • byAbigail Oswald
  • April 20, 2022
"I’m always interested in how relationships grow and change over time, especially long-term friendships that start in childhood."
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“That initial spark”: An Interview with Amanda Paige Inman

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • April 6, 2022
"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."
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“Hope and possibility”: An Interview with Allegra Hyde

  • byDana Diehl
  • March 30, 2022
"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."
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“Bewitched by the process”: An Interview with S.S. Mandani

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • March 23, 2022
S.S. Mandani runs a coffee shop and writes in New York City. He studied fiction at the University…
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“Dig into the why”: An Interview with Caitlin Barasch

  • byStephanie Trott
  • March 16, 2022
"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."
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“A Glimpse Into What Could Be”: An Interview with Chloe N. Clark

  • byKate Finegan
  • March 9, 2022
"My authority is that I often know I’m not an authority, which means I’m usually asking something in poems."
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“Stark true experiences”: An Interview with Hannah Grieco

  • byHadley Leggett
  • March 2, 2022
"The more of these unusual pieces I wrote, the more I wanted to write, and the more I wanted to read from other parents."
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“Contextualize the missing pieces”: An Interview with Kimberly Rooney 高小荣

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • February 28, 2022
"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."
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“Looping back”: An Interview with Kari Flickinger

  • byJanna Grace
  • February 16, 2022
"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."
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“Make the space”: An Interview with Kay E. Bancroft

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • January 29, 2022
Kay E. Bancroft (they/them) is a queer non-binary poet, educator, editor, and reviewer from Cincinnati, OH. They hold…
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“A poem is never done”: An Interview with Caleb Nichols

  • byStephanie Trott
  • January 25, 2022
Caleb Nichols (he/they) is a writer from California, occupying Tilhini, the Place of the Full Moon, the unceded…
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“Turning the tragedy into a tale”: An Interview with Rachel A.G. Gilman

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • January 20, 2022
Rachel A.G. Gilman’s work has been published in journals throughout the U.S., U.K., and Australia. She is the…
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“Rely on instinct”: An Interview with Beth Meko

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • January 18, 2022
Beth Meko grew up in north central West Virginia and currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her short fiction…
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“Write a thousand beginnings”: An Interview with Carli Cutchin

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • January 15, 2022
Carli Cutchin is a writer, critic, and hot springs aficionado based in Berkeley, California. Her works has appeared…
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“Opaque memories, reconstructed through fabrication”: An Interview with Renato Barucco

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • January 6, 2022
Renato is an American writer in Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared in Fiction International, Ellipsis Zine, Not One of…
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“Truth commingles in sound”: An Interview with Aaron Landsman

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • December 21, 2021
Aaron Landsman is an artist-in-residence at Abrons Arts Center on New York City’s Lower East Side. Upcoming and…
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“Time really is the best editor”: An Interview with Jennifer Fliss

  • byStephanie Trott
  • December 9, 2021
Jennifer Fliss (she/her) is a Seattle-based writer whose writing has appeared in F(r)iction, The Rumpus, No Tokens, and…
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“I am a fan of silence”: An Interview with Lydia Kim

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • December 7, 2021
Lydia Kim has had an essay appear at Catapult, a postcard at HAD, a fable in Ursa Minor, and a rant…
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“Let’s stash our coats somewhere and go find the snack table”: An Interview with Lindsey Pharr

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • November 23, 2021
Lindsey Pharr (she/her) is a Mississippi native living in a cabin in the woods outside of Marshall, North…
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“Get weird! Then get weirder”: An Interview with Katie McMorris

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • October 18, 2021
Katie McMorris is a writer and dancer. She lives and teaches in Oklahoma. Click here to read Katie’s…
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“Treat writing as a priority:” An Interview with Lindy Biller

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • October 15, 2021
Lindy Biller lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two kids. Her fiction has recently appeared at Chestnut Review, X-R-A-Y, Superfroot…
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“Start with truth”: An Interview with Massoud Hayoun

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • October 12, 2021
Massoud Hayoun is a journalist based in Los Angeles. He wrote a decolonial memoir of his grandparents and…
IInterviews

“Clear the slate”: An Interview with H.E. Fisher

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • October 5, 2021
H.E. Fisher is a multi-genre writer whose work appears or is forthcoming in Indianapolis Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Canary, Poetica…
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“Always be observing”: An Interview with Eric Scot Tryon

  • byLongleaf Staff
  • September 24, 2021
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…
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Challenge and Celebration: An Interview with Rebecca Fishow

  • byConnor Harrison
  • May 28, 2021
A lot of time, the "magic" is a manifestation of a feeling.
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Ending in Laughter: On Grief & Trauma

  • byOlivia Braley & William Bortz
  • April 19, 2021
At the end, there’s no answer, but ending in laughter and nostalgia leaves room for hope.
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Something Unseen Building: An Interview with Kelsey Ipsen

  • byConnor Harrison
  • January 24, 2021
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.
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How These Words Lean on You: An Interview with Ben Purkert

  • byConnor Harrison
  • October 18, 2020
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.
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Trace: An Interview with Melanie Figg

  • byHannah Grieco
  • August 15, 2020
Melanie Figg’s new full-length poetry collection Trace gives voice to family, feminism, and individual history through the lens of art.
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Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 4

  • byKate Finegan
  • April 26, 2020
Jennifer Fliss and Jennifer Todhunter discuss grief, parenting, resilience, and catharsis.
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Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 3

  • byKate Finegan
  • April 19, 2020
Cathy Ulrich and Chaya Bhuvaneswar discuss finding a story's pulse, finding time to write, and engaging in community.
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Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 2

  • byKate Finegan
  • April 12, 2020
Michele Finn Johnson and Tommy Dean discuss saving characters, hearing voices, and giving back to the literary community.
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Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 1

  • byKate Finegan
  • April 5, 2020
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.
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Ways We Vanish: A Conversation with Todd Dillard

  • byTodd Dillard
  • March 22, 2020
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.
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