In this new monthly column, writer and Catapult instructor Jessica Wilbanks sits down with a diverse range of contemporary writers to take a close look at the craft choices they made while writing a single short story, essay, or poem.
Three ways of thinking that might help you get the damned novel done, from our beloved 12-Month Novel Generator instructor, Lynn Steger Strong (author of HOLD STILL)
Leah Johnson interviews poet and classes instructor Angel Nafis on community, process, and writing in and outside of an MFA. (Even though advice is whack.)
An interview with poet and classes instructor Ben Purkert
An interview with Classes instructor Fatima Farheen Mirza, the New York Times bestselling author of A PLACE FOR US, at Electric Literature
Read an interview with classes instructor Wayétu Moore about new novel SHE WOULD BE KING
Classes instructors Naima Coster and Crystal Hana Kim discuss Crystal's debut novel, IF YOU LEAVE ME
Classes instructors Rachel Lyon and Blair Hurley discuss Blair's debut novel, THE DEVOTED
Catapult instructors Leigh Stein and Chelsea Hodson discuss artistic sacrifices, gender expectations, and Hodson's new essay collection, TONIGHT I'M SOMEONE ELSE.
Catapult instructor Elissa Bassist chats with the founders and editor-at-large of “the one and only fake women’s news magazine”
Karen shares practical, easy-to-implement steps to become a writer.
Writing is, at its most basic level, the desire to connect. Our first Don’t Write Alone weekend was a celebration of that fact.
“We live in a sequence of ten thousand birth stories. The best we can do is keep getting born.”
“As a writer you get to know the characters so much better—their quirks and fears, the wirings and miswirings of their psyche—and it can be so much fun, and at times such an escape from whatever is going on in your own mind.”
“Publishing is a ‘hurry up and wait’ industry.”
