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Blog Features

9 posts

Reviews, Craft Essays, and Interviews

ISSN 2578-1197
RReview

Echoes of The Three Marias in the #MeToo Movement

  • byMarilyn Duarte
  • May 17, 2020
By delving into historic literature, readers and writers can gain a deeper understanding of current day issues and subjects, important in providing invaluable background and context, along with a wider perspective to inform current opinion and work.
RReview

Some Days Are Better Than Ours: A Collection of Tragedies by Barbara Byar

  • byEmily Collins
  • May 3, 2020
Barbara Byar’s collection, Some Days Are Better Than Ours: A Collection of Tragedies, rages against normality, a feat that hits close to home in the COVID-19 era.
IInterview

Best Small Fictions Roundtable: Part 4

  • byKate Finegan
  • April 26, 2020
Jennifer Fliss and Jennifer Todhunter discuss grief, parenting, resilience, and catharsis.
IInterview

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.
IInterview

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.
IInterview

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.
IInterview

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.
CCraft Feature

Crossing the Line: When and How to Write about Family

  • byMarilyn Duarte
  • February 23, 2020
When family members are the subject of creative nonfiction, is their privacy unfairly infringed upon? Who has the right to tell a particular story? What is the point of sharing personal stories?
RReview

An Archipelago of Truths: The Island Dwellers by Jen Silverman

  • byEmily Collins
  • February 16, 2020
In intimate, first-person narration, The Island Dwellers reads like a series of private letters addressed to our hidden selves.
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