Tag: Narrative Time

The Art of Time in David Gates’s “Banishment”

By Guest Author | CRAFT, Essays | October 30, 2018

By Amber Wheeler Bacon • David Gates doesn’t recommend flashbacks to new writers when he’s teaching fiction. When line editing a student’s piece, he cuts pretty much every flashback he sees. I know because he cut plenty of mine when…

A Closer Look: “The Lovers,” by Nick White

By CRAFT | CRAFT, Essays | September 13, 2018

Nick White’s story, “The Lovers,” is the opening story in his collection, Sweet & Low, published in June, 2018. Originally published in The Literary Review, this story masterfully uses a point-of-view that moves back and forth between the two main…