Posts by Suzannah Windsor

Please welcome today’s guest, Caitlin Thomson. We published two of her poems in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Preoccupation” by Caitlin Thomson I wrote this poem after having a Skype conversation with my writing group. That sounds very distant and technological, but in fact this conversation was transformative. My writing group had been…

Today’s post is written by Katrina Kenison, whose personal essay “Mean Mail” we published as a feature in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Mean Mail” by Katrina Kenison It didn’t really occur to me four years ago, when my son Henry helped me set up a simple website just before my memoir The…

Today’s post is written by Tom Ipri. We published one of his short stories in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “The Vacation Fight” by Tom Ipri “The Vacation Fight” is the love child of two other works-in-progress and one of several stories I’ve written inspired by my four years living in Las Vegas.…

Today’s post is about a short piece of creative nonfiction we published in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Red on White” by Lita A. Kurth For such a serious personal piece, “Red on White, Black on White” had a surprisingly light and irrelevant beginning. It happened one Friday morning during a writing workshop I…

Today’s post is written by Robert Peake. You can read three of his poems in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Three Poems” by Robert Peake For me, the spark of a poem can come from just about anywhere. My task is to kindle it by writing, to draw out its heat. Each of…

Today’s post is written by Thaddeus Rutkowski, whose short story “The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done” appears in our Fall 2013 issue. by Thaddeus Rutkowski Here’s a follow-up to the events in my story “The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done“: I went to see my orthopedist recently, not knowing what she would say. Would I…

Please welcome today’s guest, Jon Alston, here to tell us a bit about a piece of his flash fiction that we published in our Fall 2013 issue.  The Story Behind “I Asked a Color Once What Made It a Color” by Jon Alston I am a man of science. Always have been. Even as a…

Today’s post is written by Rebecca Rosenblum, whose short story “Loneliness”  (excerpted from The Big Dream, Biblioasis 2011 ) we recently published in our Fall 2013 issue. The Story Behind “Loneliness” by Rebecca Rosenblum I wrote the story “Loneliness” towards the end of 2008 (and revised in 2009), so the backstory of it is a bit distant to me…