Posts by Suzannah Windsor
Fiction Director Kat Gonso & Spring 2015 Updates
You might’ve seen our recent posting for a fiction director and a features editor. Well, the competition for the features editor position is still open, but we’ve found just the right fiction director to join our team. Introducing Kat Gonso Kat Gonso is a full-time lecturer at Northeastern University, where she holds a dual appointment as…
Read MoreThe Story Behind “Hugging the Rail” by Louis Wittig
Today’s post written by Louis Wittig. We published his nonfiction piece “Hugging the Rail” in our Fall 2014 issue. As soon as I realized the train I was on had hit someone, I knew that I had to write about it, and that if I didn’t write about it I would have failed at something…
Read MoreCompose Seeks ‘Features Editor’ & ‘Fiction Director’
UPDATE: Please note that both of these positions have now been filled. Compose Journal has exciting opportunities available for a features editor and a fiction director. Before we tell you more about the positions, we want you to know that people have been saying some pretty nice things about us and our work. Things like . . .…
Read MoreThe Story Behind “Miss Eleanor” by Amy Trainor
Today’s post is written by Amy Trainor. We published her creative nonfiction piece “Miss Eleanor” in our Fall 2014 issue. I was inspired to write “Miss Eleanor” during an unseasonably snowy February here in Charlotte, NC. Miss Eleanor—an anonymous wrong number caller—had called me several days earlier and it caused me to start thinking about…
Read MoreThe Story Behind “In Retail” by Nana Adjei-Brenyah
Today’s post is written by Nana K. Adjei-Brenyah, whose story “In Retail” we published in our Fall 2014 issue. “Hi, how are you? What are we looking for today?” The customer grunts, vaguely angrier than they were the moment before. They are telling you to leave but not bothering to spend language on you. This…
Read MoreGet a Free Week of Jennie Nash’s Book-Coaching Program
One of our Fall 2014 features is about What Good Editors Do and How to Find One. But before you need an editor, you need to finish (uh . . . or maybe start) that book you’ve been working on or dreaming about. You’re in luck: Jennie Nash—the features editor for our first four issues—is inviting readers of Compose…
Read MoreCompose Journal’s Fall 2014 Contributor Lineup
Read our Fall 2014 issue. Our reading period for Fall 2014 is now over and we’re working hard to publish the issue before the end of October. If you submitted work to us and have yet to receive a response, that means we’re considering your work for the Spring 2015 issue. Thank you for your…
Read MoreThe Story Behind “Two Poems” by Jed Myers
Today’s post is written by Jed Myers. You can read his two poems “That Beaten Eye” and “Let’s Go In” in our Spring 2014 issue. “That Beaten Eye” and “Let’s Go In,” while manifestly quite different in theme and subject, are both among my many meditations on, or explorations of, the uncanny inseparability of beauty and violence, life and…
Read MoreThe Story Behind “Boots” by Jessica Barksdale
Today’s post is written by Jessica Barksdale. We published her creative nonfiction piece “Boots” in our Spring 2014 issue. From 1987 to 1993, I took a long writing hiatus. After finishing my Master’s thesis and giving birth to my second son in the summer of 1987, I just stopped scribbling poems and taking notes about stories.…
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