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Flash Interview: Tara Isabel Zambrano
What does it mean to be “ruined a little when we are born”? Writer and engineer Tara Isabel Zambrano searches for the answer to that question in her newest collection of short stories, Ruined a Little When We Are…
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Interview: T. J. Martinson
In T. J. Martinson’s forthcoming novel, Her New Eyes, an experimental eye transplant with unexpected side effects upends the life of a sixty-eight-year-old florist living in modern-day Indiana. Soon after the procedure, the protagonist, Susan, begins receiving sporadic visions…
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Interview: Annell López
I had the pleasure of chatting with Annell López, author of the award-winning debut short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason over coffee after work in New Orleans, where we both live and write. I’ll Give You a…
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Hybrid Interview: Deborah Jackson Taffa
Essay by Gabriel Moseley • I had the great pleasure of meeting Deborah Jackson Taffa at the Vermont Studio Center in October 2023, where she was the Visiting Writer. It was stick season—the dismal threshold between the time of…
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Show, Don’t Tell: What AI Can’t Do
By Laura Hartenberger • Teaching writing at university sometimes makes me feel like an academic imposter. Compared to my students’ other college courses, with their weighty textbooks, weekly quizzes, and the expectation of all-nighters, my writing classes, I fear,…
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Interview: Halle Hill
We are thrilled to announce Halle Hill, author of the award-winning debut short story collection, Good Women, as the guest judge for the CRAFT 2025 Short Fiction Prize. In celebration of the contest’s launch, Halle Hill generously granted Editor…
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Interview: Naomi Cohn
Naomi Cohn was sighted until the age of thirty, when her vision began to decline. Now in her sixties, her pathological myopia has progressed to the point that she is legally blind. One of the ten percent of blind…
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Conversations Between Friends: C. H. Hooks and Kelsey Norris
Kelsey Norris and I spoke in December. She was in Washington, DC and I was in St. Augustine, Florida, two arguably very different spaces to prepare for the holidays. We were also preparing for her to join me at…
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Hybrid Interview: Rebe Huntman
Essay by Shara Kronmal • My Mother in Havana by Rebe Huntman is a memoir about journeys and the lessons learned along the way. In the memoir, the journeys are threefold in nature: physical, a literal journey from Ohio…
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Stepping Out of My Storytelling Box
By Tim Bascom • When I was twelve, I wrote my first short story, which was about a boy who, while hiking alone, falls off a mountain cliff and lands on a narrow outcrop, unable to get down or…
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