Side A Short Story: “Adults Told Me” by Mark Benedict

Adults Told Me 1. My science teacher told me that life was slapdash. I talked to him after class sometimes; … More

“My Dog Is That One”: Angelo Maneage Interviewed by Zach Savich

“It felt right to be coughing on the ground,” Angelo Maneage tells us in The Improper Use of Plates, his remarkable … More

“The Land of All Time”: William Lessard Interviews Clark Coolidge + Six Exclusive Poems

For six decades, Clark Coolidge has been presenting language awash in information, with jarring and frequently hilarious syntax. Although frequently … More

“Forsaken”: Gay Degani Interviews Jayne Martin, author of the memoir THE DADDY CHRONICLES

A stick of dynamite is about the size of a banana. It doesn’t necessarily look dangerous, but it carries with … More

“A Brief Flash of Strangeness”: Adam McPhee in Conversation with TOADSTONES Author Eric Williams

Eric Williams is a writer living on the lithified remains of a Cretaceous Seaway in Austin, TX. His fiction has … More

“Electricity in this Dehydrated Landscape”: A Conversation with Vi Khi Nao by Mark Ari

Vi Khi Nao is a true original, a fabulously prolific artist whose curiosity, creative energy, and talent are apparently boundless. … More

“State of Decay”: A Georgia Poets’ Roundtable

Regionalisms abound in accounts of contemporary poetry, and the American South remains one of the most complex and productive of … More

“Juggling a Hundred Objects, Some of Them on Fire”: An Interview with Lance Olsen, Author of SKIN ELEGIES, by Marcus Pactor

Lance Olsen is one of America’s most formally inventive and intellectually stimulating novelists. Few writers have been as consistently excellent … More

“A Veiling and Unveiling and Veiling Again”: An Interview with Elisabeth Sheffield by Marcus Pactor

Elisabeth Sheffield is the sort of writer most writers only hope to become: a ventriloquist offering up voice after voice. … More

“An Undercurrent of Darkness”: Bess Winter Interviews Jen Fawkes, author of TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME

Over the past several weeks I’ve been emailing back-and-forth with Jen Fawkes, author of Mannequin and Wife (LSU Press) and … More

“The Sky Never Left the Sky”: Tiffany Troy Interviews Mai Der Vang about her newest collection YELLOW RAIN

Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the … More

“Spending Time with the Beast”: Maxwell Malone Interviews Darrin Doyle, Author of THE BEAST IN AISLE 34

Darrin Doyle is an author and English professor at Central Michigan University whose fiction has appeared in Puerto del Sol, … More

“Defiance and Dilemmas”: An Interview with Michael J. Seidlinger on his latest book, RUNAWAY: A WRITER’S DILEMMA, by Hillary Leftwich

Is writing an act of defiance itself? Or do the dilemmas we face as writers push us into acts of … More

“Repetition Is Magical”: Jesi Buell in Conversation with Candice Wuehle, author of FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed

Candice Wuehle’s most recent poetry collection FIDELITORIA: Fixed or Fluxed centers around the magical elements of our everyday lives. Through … More

“The Stories We Tell to Keep Ourselves Alive”: Wendy Bourgeois Interviews Thea Prieto, Author of FROM THE CAVES

Thea Prieto’s debut From the Caves, winner of the Red Hen Novella Award, contains an entire post-apocalyptic world that is … More