Category: Interviews & Excerpts
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“The Spark Became Flame”: Nettie Farris Interviews Wade Stevenson
Wade Stevenson’s prior poetry collection, But Darling I Love You!, was published in bilingual edition by Trilce Editions, Barcelona, 1968. John Ashbery also accepted a folio of poems for publication in his review, Art and Literature. This lead to the publication of Ice Cream Parlors in Asia by Tibor de Nagy Editions in New York,…
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“What Moves Me Most Doesn’t Have a Beginning, Middle, or End”: Melissa Cronin in Conversation with Lynn Lurie
Lynn Lurie is the author of three novels, Corner of the Dead (2008), winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, Quick Kills (2014), and Museum of Stones (early 2019). An attorney with an MA in international affairs and an MFA in writing, she is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University. She served as…
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“Making Myself Hurt: Caleb Michael Sarvis on His Story Collection Dead Aquarium” by Caleb Tankersley
Caleb Michael Sarvis is a writer from Jacksonville, Florida. He is the fiction editor for Bridge Eight Literary Magazine and received his MFA from the University of Tampa. His work has been featured in or is forthcoming from Literary Orphans, The Molotov Cocktail, Barrelhouse, Yellow Chair Review, and Empty Sink Publishing. You can follow him…
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“{see what she can do}”: Marcene Gandolfo in Conversation with Heidi Seaborn, author of Give a Girl Chaos
Heidi Seaborn is Poetry Editor for The Adroit Journal, a New York University MFA candidate, and the author of an award-winning debut book of poetry Give a Girl Chaos {see what she can do}, published by Mastodon Books. Since Heidi began writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for nearly two dozen awards including the…
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“A Catalogue of Things That Follows from Looking”: William Lessard Interviews Julia Madsen
Julia Madsen is a writer who thinks like a filmmaker, a filmmaker who thinks like a writer, and an artist who thrives on intertextual uncertainty. With the publication of The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland (Trembling Pillow Press, 2018), the first-time author joins Anne Boyer, Michael Martone, Ander Monson, and…
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“Change Is Always Possible”: Hillary Leftwich Interviews Mairead Case
Mairead Case is a teacher, writer, and editor in Denver, Colorado. She publishes widely, and wrote the novel See You in the Morning (featherproof), the poetry chapbook TENDERNESS (Meekling), the forthcoming novel Tiny, and, with David Lasky, the forthcoming Georgetown Steam Plant Graphic Novel. Mairead holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a…
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The Heavy Feather Holiday Special: “Winter Solstice,” a short story by Jordan A. Rothacker
In the front yard, there is a nativity scene that awaits the birth of its Christ. Mother set up the display about two weeks ago. Father and she used to do it together. The first weekend of December they would go up in the attic on Sunday afternoon and bring down all of the supplies.…
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Craft Essay for Haunted Passages: “Standing at a Line in the Sand with a Shiver in Your Heart” by Bones Are Made to Be Broken author Paul Michael Anderson
I want to talk about the limitless possibilities of what horror is and what horror can do. I want to rail against the mainstream critics and dilettantes who deride the genre every time something major comes along—the release of an IT, the premiere of a Walking Dead, the publication of a Let the Right One…
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“Monster Family Portraits” for Haunted Passages: 14 Ghost and Monster Movies that Inspired or Influenced Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales by Orrin Grey
My previous collection, Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts, was specifically and self-consciously assembled around an idea of tracing the history of horror cinema through short stories inspired by films from different eras. Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales has no such underlying modus, but movies are a huge part of my mental vocabulary, and monster…
