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Image is a color photograph of a black dress on a hanger; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, “The Word Disorder,” by Allison Field Bell.

The Word Disorder by Allison Field Bell

November 6, 2024

  I insist I need a corset for under my dress. A wedding. My cousin’s. A purple strapless with a layer of chiffon. My mother is outside the dressing room. She asks if anything fits. I stare down the mirror.…

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Image is a color photograph of a swan swimming in a lake; title card for the winner of the CRAFT 2024 EcoLit Challenge, “Here and There at the Lake,” by Janice Vis.

Here and There at the Lake by Janice Vis

October 4, 2024

  Content Warning—sexual assault   Along the western shores of Lake Ontario, the water splits the land and pools into a marshy inlet webbed with bike trails and bridges. I walk these paths every day, just wandering about, here and…

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Image is a color photograph of emojis; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "The Art of Crafting a Dating App Profile" by Anna Chotlos.

The Art of Crafting a Dating App Profile by Anna Chotlos

September 18, 2024

  Do I “heart” this? My finger hovers over the outline of a heart beside a photo of a curly-haired woman grinning, her arms wrapped around two tan dogs. It’s a Friday night, a few months after I moved to…

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Image is a color photograph of a perfume bottle; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "The Catalog of Human Memories," by Celia Cummiskey

The Catalog of Human Memories by Celia Cummiskey

September 11, 2024

  When I was in college, a lover came to visit me in London. He’d been traveling through the Balkans and staying in hostels where he’d needed to furnish his own towel and toiletries. When he arrived at my cubelike…

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Image is a color photograph of a lighthouse; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "The Lighthouse Keepers," by Jen Colclough.

The Lighthouse Keepers by Jen Colclough

August 14, 2024

  “You’re a highly intelligent individual, and I’m sorry, but you probably know already that intellect and depression often run together.” The school counsellor raises her hand up and down to simulate a wave. “Your thoughts and your moods move…

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Image is a color photograph of an old doll on the ground; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Pretend We're Dead," by Melissa Ragsly.

“Pretend We’re Dead” by Melissa Ragsly

August 7, 2024

  My first job was at a farmstand with a twenty-five-foot papier-mâché witch named Winnie towering over the parking lot. Eyes like a lizard’s with vaginal slit pupils and a boulder of a nose. She enchanted people. Drivers would pull…

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Image is a color photograph of an old house's window missing a pane of glass; title card for the new creative nonfiction essay, "Little Boy Ghost," by Ira Sukrungruang.

Little Boy Ghost by Ira Sukrungruang

July 17, 2024

  Since we’ve moved to England for the year, my son Bodhi fears being alone. He can’t verbalize what it is he fears. Everywhere we go he follows, hand linked into an arm or fingers pinching the fabric of a…

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Image is a color photograph of the Iowa River; title card for the new flash creative nonfiction essay, "Walking the Iowa River with My Grandmother after the Floods," by Grace Morse.

Walking the Iowa River with My Grandmother after the Floods by Grace Morse

July 10, 2024

  I told you it wouldn’t take long to get to the river. No, I don’t come here alone at night. Yes, I do come here when night is impatiently waiting to arrive, streaking the sky with pink and cobalt…

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Image is a color photograph of a white orchid in shadowed light; title card for the 2023 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest Winner, "Orchid, Excerpt from Orchid: A Memoir," by Chaya Bhuvaneswar.

Orchid, Excerpt from Orchid: A Memoir by Chaya Bhuvaneswar

June 28, 2024

  “Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.”  ―Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks   Chapter One: Orchid Tattoo 1. …granulation tissue Granulation tissue is cell growth, after…

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Image is a color photograph of a bus stop on the side of the road in the middle of a field; title card for the 2023 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest Winner, "Bus Stop," by Gabe Montesanti.

Bus Stop by Gabe Montesanti

June 21, 2024

  The nurse processing my intake at the psychiatric hospital looked like the kind of person with whom I would strike up a conversation while waiting for a drag show. Everything about her seemed to match, down to the color…

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