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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Please welcome Julie Paul with the story behind her short story “Instant Family,” which we published in our Spring 2014 issue.  I’ve been practicing a daily writing ritual for years now, with a few different writers from across Canada: we call this practice Writamins. It’s very simple; we send each other words via email, one per day, and […]