Catapult

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People | Fifteen Minutes

This Native Jewelry Designer Combats Stereotypes Through Art

“People really want to fit Native people into a box, in this safe stereotype space. I defy every single stereotype anyone has ever held about Native people. I enjoy breaking those stereotypes, completely smashing them.”

Mar 21, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Ellen Weinstein for Catapult

On Writing | Turning Points

As a Nurse and Writer, I Work Toward a Culture of Care

Despite how fruitless both nursing and writing can feel, I choose to engage with both.

Mary Ann Thomas

Mar 21, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of Bjoern Kils/New York Media Boat

Columns | Sidewalk Naturalist

Why These Seals Left New York—and Why They Came Back

New York is like their Miami resort.

Mar 20, 2019

People | Unreported

Why We Must Believe Women: My Family’s Legacy of Violence and Murder

Nov 06, 2017

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Richard Chiem, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: How to Break Hearts, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: How to Break Hearts

Catapult online classes: Moriel Rothman-Zecher, 6-Week Advanced Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Political Fiction, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Advanced Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Political Fiction

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Catapult online classes: Taylor Larsen, The Online Novel Generator: Twelve Weeks to a Full Draft, Novel, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Novel, Fiction | Workshop

The Online Novel Generator: Twelve Weeks to a Full Draft

Catapult online classes: Claire Schwartz, 6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: The Art of Attention, Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: The Art of Attention

Claire Schwartz

Catapult online classes: Annie Hartnett, 8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Making Scene-by-Scene Progress on Your Novel, Novel, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Novel, Fiction | Workshop

8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Making Scene-by-Scene Progress on Your Novel

Catapult online classes: Gabrielle Bellot, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop

Gabrielle Bellot

Catapult online classes: Naima Coster, 4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Creating Compelling Characters, Fiction, Seminar

Online | Fiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Creating Compelling Characters

Catapult online classes: Chia-Chia Lin, 4-Week Online Novel Workshop: Creating an Immersive World, Fiction, Novel, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Novel | Workshop

4-Week Online Novel Workshop: Creating an Immersive World

Bodies

Cover Photo: Photograph by George Peters/iStock

People | Bodies

To See or Not to See

I just wanted to believe my eyes were magic, that only I could see things that existed below the surface.

Joshua James Amberson

Mar 19, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Pablo Heimplatz/Unsplash

People | Bodies

The Weight of Words: Self-Acceptance Doesn’t Have to Be a Solo Journey

I don’t want my self-worth to hinge on a relationship. But vulnerability is a practice, and for me, it has been a valuable one.

Mar 14, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph via Rawpixel; photo illustration by Matt Ortile

People | Bodies

When Someone Loses A Bunch of Weight, Maybe Don’t Lead with “How’d You Do It?”

Weight loss is not a life change that just happens with a snap of one’s fingers. There’s more to it than that, even when people say it’s just about “putting in the work.”

Mar 07, 2019

On the Road

Cover Photo: Photograph by Alexandra Marvar

Facing My Fears in the World’s Largest Sand Desert

Alexandra Marvar

Cover Photo: Photography courtesy of the author

On the Haunting Beauty of Roadside Crosses in New Mexico

Cover Photo: photo courtesy of the author

Finding Faith Beyond God on the Camino de Santiago

Andrea Ruggirello

People | Bodies

Men Who Are Ready to Devour the Young

Naa Baako Ako-Adjei

Jan 09, 2018

New from Catapult Books

Floyd harbor 3dcvr

Catapult | short stories | fiction

Floyd Harbor: Stories by Joel Mowdy (Pre-Order)

Optic nerve 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

Optic Nerve: A Novel by María Gainza (Pre-Order)

Meander spiral explode 3dcvr

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison (Pre-Order)

Rough magic 3dcvr

Catapult | memoir

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer (Pre-Order)

The summer demands 3dcvr

Catapult | novel | fiction

The Summer Demands: A Novel by Deborah Shapiro (Pre-Order)

To keep the sun alive 3dcvr

Catapult | novel | fiction

To Keep the Sun Alive: A Novel by Rabeah Ghaffari

The story prize 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction | anthology

The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction ed. by Larry Dark

Sea monsters 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

Sea Monsters: A Novel by Chloe Aridjis

Columns

Cover Photo: Photographs by NASA and Navid Golpour | Photo illustration by Matt Ortile

Columns | My Future, My Fertility

How Did I Get to Thirty-Five Without Really Understanding My Reproductive System?

I wanted to know more about my fertility because I thought it might help me prepare for a someday I wasn’t willing to give up on.

Mar 18, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Erik Witsoe/Unsplash

Columns | Failed Utopias

The Utopian Colony Around Tennessee’s Oldest Library

The New York Times, Harper’s Weekly and The Spectator sent stringers to cover the experiment. The writer from Harper’s was so impressed, he speculated “that the coming year would witness a grand exodus of the middle classes of England.”

Rachel Louise Martin

Mar 13, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Levi Hastings for Catapult/Screen Australia

Columns | Movie Made Gay

Acknowledging Tragedy While Finding Love and Joy in AIDS Films

I gravitate towards AIDS stories because, behind their righteous anger and torturous despair, they lay out visions of couples and communities.

Manuel Betancourt

Mar 12, 2019

On Writing

Cover Photo: Photograph by Ace Tilton Ratcliff

As a Disabled Writer, I Know My Stories Are Worth Telling

Ace Tilton Ratcliff

Cover Photo: Image courtesy of Bundo Kim via Unsplash

Every Day is a Writing Day, With or Without an MFA

Cover Photo: Photograph by Annie Spratt

Don’t Submit. Pitch.

Fiction

Cover Photo: Photo courtesy of Mishal Ibrahim/Unsplah

Fiction | Short Story

If You Don’t Mind the Drowning

There are times you have legs. Mostly, you do not. You smile with teeth grown sharp from gnawing at chains that refuse to release.

Mar 15, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Ellen Weinstein for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Cactus City

Floating on her back, she imagines what’ll happen if she starts bleeding right then and there.

Anne-Marie Kinney

Mar 08, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Ellen Weinstein for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Sky Held Up by a Thousand Minarets

On this train ride back to his beginnings, Shettima’s mind overtook the train to another river in his memory, a river long and meandering as his days.

Mar 01, 2019