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Image is the book covers for LESSONS FROM THE CLIMATE CHANGE COUNSELING BOOTH by Kate Schapira and THE AGE OF DEER by Erika Howsare; title card for the new conversation between the authors.

Conversations Between Friends: Kate Schapira and Erika Howsare

May 31, 2024

  Seven years ago, we—Kate Schapira and Erika Howsare—published a collaborative volume of poetry, which no one bought. Kate has published half a dozen other books of poetry and teaches writing at Brown University; Erika has one solo poetry book…

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Image is the book cover for THE PRICE OF COOKIES by Finnian Burnett; title card for the new hybrid interview with Michelle Sinclair.

Hybrid Interview: Finnian Burnett

May 29, 2024

  Essay by Michelle Sinclair • If one were asked to compare the experience of reading to that of eating a dessert, would it be so far-fetched to connect reading flash fiction and enjoying a cookie? Both are “bite-sized” and…

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Image is the book cover for THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES by Deesha Philyaw; title card for the new interview with Courtney Harler.

Interview: Deesha Philyaw

May 9, 2024

  Deesha Philyaw, acclaimed author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, is graciously serving as our guest judge for the CRAFT 2024 Short Fiction Prize. In this interview conducted over email, Editor in Chief Courtney Harler asks Deesha to…

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Image is the book cover for THE GARDEN by Clare Beams; title card for the new interview with Abby Manzella.

Interview: Clare Beams

May 3, 2024

  I began reading Clare Beams’s extraordinary work with her first novel The Illness Lesson, which follows young women at a newly founded school in nineteenth-century New England where the students begin to mysteriously fall ill. That novel brought to…

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Image is the book cover for SING, I by Ethel Rohan; title card for the new interview between Dominic Lim and Ethel Rohan.

Conversations Between Friends: Dominic Lim and Ethel Rohan

May 1, 2024

  I was first introduced to Ethel Rohan’s writing at a reading sponsored by The Writers Grotto, a community of working writers in San Francisco. After hearing an excerpt from her award-winning collection of short stories, I rushed to read…

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Image is the book cover for WHAT'S NOT MINE by Nora Decter; title card for the new hybrid interview with Rachel León.

Hybrid Interview: Nora Decter

March 29, 2024

  Essay by Rachel León • I met Nora Decter over Zoom when we were tasked to outline her forthcoming novel, What’s Not Mine. We were both fellows in Stony Brook University’s BookEnds program, paired to work together on our…

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Image is the book cover for THE HUNGER BOOK by Agata Izabela Brewer; title card for the new interview with Jodie Sadowsky.

Interview: Agata Izabela Brewer

March 27, 2024

  In The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland, Agata Izabela Brewer probes potent memories and delicacies from her Polish childhood in a home of maternal neglect and alcohol abuse. Expertly written and researched, with historical threads of Communism…

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Image is the book cover for DISCIPLINE by Debra Spark; title card for the new interview with Melissa Benton Barker.

Interview: Debra Spark

March 20, 2024

  Debra Spark’s new novel, Discipline, spans decades and a diverse cast of characters, from art-world insiders to houseless teenagers. While, on the surface, the novel is a literary mystery about a missing trio of valuable paintings, Spark also compels…

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Image is the book cover for THE END OF DRUM-TIME by Hanna Pylväinen; title card for the new interview with Courtney Harler.

Interview: Hanna Pylväinen

March 7, 2024

  In celebration of the inaugural Novelette Print Prize, Editor in Chief Courtney Harler corresponded via email with Guest Judge Hanna Pylväinen, author of The End of Drum-Time. In the resulting interview below, they discuss choosing point of view, honoring…

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Image is the book cover for THE PROPRIETOR'S SONG by Janet Goldberg; title card for the new interview with Joanne Furio.

Interview: Janet Goldberg

March 1, 2024

  At her Berkeley kitchen table, Janet Goldberg runs her finger over mapped roads in the Sierras that lead to a region she has hiked for decades, terrain that forms the backdrop of her debut novel, The Proprietor’s Song. The…

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