Remembering James Olney
From his essay “Remembering Richard Remembering Mlle. Marty” (volume 3, number 1;...
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Crossword Key
As promised, and hopefully in time to save the remaining hairs on your head, here is the key to...
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Guess Whose Desk
We’re in the thick of mailing mayhem and don’t have time for a blog-post proper, but...
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Crossword Challenge
Fiction Editor Michael Griffith has been pitting himself against “puzzles,” as he...
Read MoreExotic Locales: Pankey, Parry, & Marberry
Write what you know. It’s easy to tire of the adage, to bristle as the tweedy, bespectacled creative-writing-instructor-within brandishes his red pen at the slightest intimation of the unknown: dark matter, psychic surgery,...
Read MoreBack-Issue Giveaway!
Our new issue is wheeling its way toward us, and our storage room is packed tighter than a clown car. Gotta make room, readers, so if you’ve been pining for a particular back issue or three or four, now’s your chance...
Read MoreLong Forms: Time Limit
Long forms, we have come to appreciate anew your grand-scale grace, your unhurried pace, the way you are willing, like a guest at an Indian wedding, to dance in the street for days. Our overstuffed winter issue will hit the mail...
Read MoreTesting Limits: Duhamel & Wade, Rafferty, Robbins, Williams
As those of you following along know by now, last Friday here at UC Mary Szybist read from her National Book Award–winning collection Incarnadine. What you might not know is that during said reading Szybist shared an ekphrastic...
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2015 Elliston Poet-in-Residence: Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist is UC’s 2015 George Elliston Poet-in-Residence. Last Tuesday, January 13,...
Read MorePaying Attention: Karrie Higgins, John Warner, and Holly Goddard Jones Discuss their Inspiring Moments
Creative inspiration is often rooted in a writer’s ability to be attentive to the moment. Frank Baum is a prime example: he’d tell improvised fairy-tales to his children, and after they’d fallen asleep, he’d jot down his...
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