Tag: Retrospective Narrator

Excerpt from 1989 by Vince Omni

By Vince Omni | NPP 2025, Fiction, Excerpt | January 12, 2026

Image is a green basketball court in bird's eye view. Title card for Vince Omni's 1989 excerpt.

Order 1989 here! Red Mare Press Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org Amazon Leave a review! Goodreads Church called me a pussy six weeks before tryouts. That’s what I tell his granddaughter, Raquel, who’s sitting across from me in the apartment above…

Life, the Universe, and Everything: A Primer on the Writing of Autofiction

By Guest Author | Craft, Classroom, Critical Essays | August 23, 2023

Image shows a starry backdrop with pine trees in the foreground; title card for the new craft essay, "Life, the Universe, and Everything: A Primer on the Writing of Autofiction," by Sarah Twombly.

By Sarah Twombly • I am at work on a novel, and have been for more than a decade. It is autobiographical fiction, which is to say it’s about me, but also, it isn’t. The same way Einstein might…