Catapult

Cover Photo: colorful illustration featuring a blond-haired girl in a pink shirt and green pants embracing a tree with a face visible in the trunk, other children in the background

Columns | A Modern Guide To Superstition

No One Is Waiting to Steal Your Joy

Growing up with abuse, I came to see the experience of joy as inseparable from the threat that it would all soon be undone.

Jul 29, 2021

Cover Photo: An image from a protest in Myanmar

Columns | Myanmar Voices

“It is the people who have power”

I must be ready to be the best person I can be to serve my country.

Jessica Goudeau

Jul 28, 2021

Cover Photo: An illustration from the manga Dorohedoro: A blonde human with a plate of gyoza and a reptilian humanoid with daggers

Culture | Television

‘Dorohedoro’ Helped Me Through—and Reconsider—Isolation in the Pandemic

In Q Hayashida’s wild, imaginative artwork, I found the freedom to see beyond my surroundings, all on my own.

Michelle Delgado

Jul 27, 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Caroline Shannon Karasik, 1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing Pitches that Land Bylines, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

1-Day Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing Pitches that Land Bylines

Caroline Shannon Karasik

Catapult online classes: David O'Neill, 2-Day Online Magazine Master Class, Publishing, Master Class

Online | Publishing | Master Class

2-Day Online Magazine Master Class

Catapult online classes: Forsyth Harmon, 6-Week Online Open-Genre Seminar: Illustrated Literature, Open-Genre, Seminar

Online | Open-Genre | Seminar

6-Week Online Open-Genre Seminar: Illustrated Literature

Catapult online classes: Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Intensive: Making Modern Love, Nonfiction, Intensive

Online | Nonfiction | Intensive

4-Week Online Nonfiction Intensive: Making Modern Love

Jessica Ciencin Henriquez

Catapult online classes: Edgar Gomez, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing Your Queer Life, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing Your Queer Life

Catapult online classes: Sarah Hosseini, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing for Parenting Publications, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing for Parenting Publications

Catapult online classes: Rainie Oet, 6-Week Online Hybrid-Genre Workshop: Writing Narrative-in-Verse, Open-Genre, Workshop

Online | Open-Genre | Workshop

6-Week Online Hybrid-Genre Workshop: Writing Narrative-in-Verse

Catapult online classes: Tiana Nobile, 8-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Explorations of the Self, Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

8-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Explorations of the Self

Don’t Write Alone

Cover Photo: a black and white dairy cow facing the camera, standing in a field of grass

Don’t Write Alone | Notes On Craft

A Cow with a Hole in It

The thing that’s so difficult about personal essays is that they’re awfully personal. There’s an answer to this conundrum, and it has to do with cows.

Jun 28, 2021

Cover Photo: This image has crumpled paper in the background and the cover of the book in the corner, which reads "Letter to a Young Poet"

Don’t Write Alone | Free Write

Remember, You Are in Conversation

When I’m feeling stuck and lonely, I try to remember that I’m in conversation with the world—that I am alive in it and it is alive through me.

Jul 06, 2021

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a man sitting inside a study cubicle with his laptop. He looks frustrated; his hand is clutching his hair and he is staring at his computer with intensity.

Don’t Write Alone | Writing Life

On Writing (with a Day Job)

There are many kinds of writing lives, and yours includes a day job.

Richard Mirabella

Jul 19, 2021

Culture

Cover Photo: A screencap of the characters Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski, a high school–aged blonde boy and brunette girl, holding hands and wearing matching jerseys that say "husband" and "wife." Zack's jersey is red and Kelly's is dark purple.

Strange Lessons in Sex and Power from ‘Saved By the Bell’

Cover Photo: Illustrations of Tina Turner, the author, a gospel choir—all joyous expressions of music and emotion

What Tina Turner Taught Me

Charlene Adhiambo

Cover Photo: Production still via Fox 2000 Pictures/Wendy Finerman Productions/Dune Entertainment

The Real Villain in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ is Toxic Work Culture

Lindsay Lee Wallace

New from Catapult Books

fiction | Catapult

You Exist Too Much: A Novel by Zaina Arafat

novel | fiction | Catapult

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

nonfiction | Catapult

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

novel | Catapult

Bewilderness by Karen Tucker

novel | family | Catapult

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa

short stories | Catapult

Prepare Her: Stories by Genevieve Plunkett

memoir | essays | Catapult

Pop Song by Larissa Pham

fiction | Catapult

Dead Souls by Sam Riviere

Columns

Cover Photo: Screencap via Vortex/Bryanston Distributing Company

Columns | The Curse

Shades of Yellow Heighten the Horror of ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’

In Tobe Hooper’s famous horror film, the color yellow is a visual catalyst for the evil that is to come.

Jul 26, 2021

Cover Photo: Photograph by Jordan Whitfield/Unsplash

Columns | Family | Gold Stars

My Mom’s Pandemic Piano Taught Me You Can Always “Find Yourself”

It was the first time I’d ever noticed growth or newness this way: reclaiming, or returning, rather than overhauling and chasing.

Rainesford Stauffer

Jul 22, 2021

Cover Photo: illustration of a young woman with long black hair sitting on a red sofa in a white bathrobe, holding a spoon in one hand and a bowl of vegetable tuna curry with rice in the other

Columns | Half Recipes

Feed Yourself Like Someone You Love: A Recipe for Summer Vegetable Tuna Curry

The trick to a good nostalgic curry rice is to finish it with honey. Just a drizzle at first.

Jul 21, 2021

Books

Cover Photo: An image of The Phantom Tollbooth’s cover

The Transportive Power of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

Cover Photo: crop of comic book cover illustration of Riri WIlliams, aka Ironheart

How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy

Ravynn K. Stringfield

Cover Photo: a grey-brown bronze statue of Michel de Montaigne, depicted here as an aging man with a bald head, a mustache, and short beard, wearing a neck ruff, robes, and a chain of office

My Father, Montaigne, and the Art of Living

Ann Tashi Slater

Poetry

Cover Photo: a man standing on an abstract beach depicted in shades of black, purple, and fiery red, with ashes swirling around and a red phoenix flying overhead

Catapult | Poetry

Ashes at Kande Beach, Malawi

Everything is an elegy these days, all chipped rings, / clipped wings.

Jun 29, 2021

Cover Photo: abstract nude of a reclining woman with dark brown braids whose skin is a variety of brown and caramel shades, dark and light shadows meant to evoke crystalline-sugar highlights

Catapult | Poetry

Sugar

I took my time shrugging / into this divinity

Camonghne L Felix

Jun 02, 2021

Cover Photo: a brown hand raised, waving against a background of blue sky

Catapult | Poetry

[Political] Dialogue

There were two worlds then, the one we lived in and the one she invented, where my aunt remarried and nobody ever went to America

Jun 01, 2021

Fiction

Cover Photo: An illustration of a white woman holding the crossbar of a Jeep as she rides through the desert. She is wearing sunglasses and a fuchsia headscarf and her face is turned away from the viewer. Driving the Jeep is a Black man in army fatigues.

Fiction | Short Story

The Abaarso School for Clever Girls

Melinda’s violation of their agreement—to stay the same for each other, forever—was so profound that she split their shared sphere in two.

Claire Rudy Foster

Jul 23, 2021

Cover Photo: This illustration depicts a tape recorder laying on forest ground with wolf prints leading to the shadowy figure of a woman behind the trees in the distance.

Fiction | Short Story

Mother’s Wolves

My mind drifted to the almost-lycanthropic being I’d imagined her becoming, half wolf, half researcher, neither coming back to me, dead or alive.

Corey Farrenkopf

Jul 16, 2021

Cover Photo: A photograph of an exterior facade of an IHOP restaurant

Fiction | Flash

After the Diversity Panel

Had we been diverse enough? Had we changed hearts, minds, and souls? Had we been . . . truthful?

Elaine Hsieh Chou

Jul 09, 2021