Lisa Ampleman

Director Mark Armstrong interviews CR contributors Dan O’Brien and christopher oscar peña about their published play trilogies

The three winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, plus words from the judges and winners, and a list of finalists

Three Nigerian writers share their experiences of the literary culture there and here.

A craft essay on how writers can best depict rural America without resorting to “poverty porn.”

A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime

A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else’s, a woman who learns about her mother’s past

Brenna Womer’s powerful visual erasures of her mother’s letters.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan, writer for Autostraddle and a poet.

title taken from Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem I walked like a rage into the body of my life, which insisted the end of grief camein the fulfillment of desire, but desire, like loneliness, is a hunger    it willcome back       I muzzled grief            I desired with a desire beyond desireI repeated the word until it grew …

A short film using images of the first rendering of a black hole