Catapult

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Arts & Culture | Movies

Who Deserves Love In the Nineties Rom-Com?

Somewhere between the one-dimensional BIPOC sidekick and the final, showstopping kiss, I forgot that I was consuming love stories built on exclusion.

Feb 13, 2023

Cover Photo: A photograph of a game-show spinning wheel, multicolored and with a different dollar amount on each segment of the wheel.

Fiction | Short Story

Yeet! That! Teet!

The high-tier prizes involved top-of-the-line gender-affirmation surgery—usually stuff not covered yet by health insurance.

Emrys Donaldson

Feb 10, 2023

Cover Photo: A screenshot of Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tàr from the film Tàr. She is holding a conductor's baton and has her arms spread wide.

Arts & Culture | Columns | Women Watching Horror Films

In Horror Films, the Newest Nightmare Is Getting Canceled

Men around me speak about cancel culture with such hyperbole and terror, you’d think it was a supernatural force.

Heather O'Neill

Feb 09, 2023

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Graphic image saying "Reading Class as Writers" with cover images of "Jesus' Son," "Salvage the Bones," "Pachinko," "Without a Net," and "Trash"

Online | Open-Genre | Reading Group

6 Weeks of Reading Class as Writers

Photo of Javier Sinay with the cover of "The Murders of Moises Ville"

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

8-Week Nonfiction Workshop: The Art of the Crónica

Online | Fiction | Workshop

8-Week Fiction Workshop: Pacing, Plot, & Publishing

Christine Ma-Kellams

Photo of Taylor Larsen with the cover of "Stranger, Father, Beloved"

Online | Fiction, Novel | Workshop

10-Week Novel Revision Workshop

Photo of Jenna Tang with logos for "Asian American Writers' Workshop," "McSweeney's," and "Catapult"

Online | Fiction, Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Open-Genre Workshop for Writers of Color: Writing About Languages

Graphic image saying "Reading Novels about Art as Writers" with cover images of "Cat's Eye," "To the Lighthouse," "Sudden Death," and "Seiobo There Below"

Online | Fiction | Reading Group

4 Weeks of Reading Novels about Art as Writers

Photo of Nat Mesnard with the cover of "Business Wizards!"

Online | Fiction, Open-Genre | Intensive

Interactive Fiction Incubator: 12 Months to a Released Game

Photo of Anastacia Renee with the cover of "Side Notes from the Archivist"

Online | Poetry, Memoir | Workshop

4-Week Generative Poetry Workshop: When Poetry Meets Memoir

Anastacia Renee

Romance Week

Cover Photo: This illustration shows two people reaching across to each other while standing in the middle of a maze-like path. Overall, the drawing has lots of hues of pinks and purples.

Don’t Write Alone | Notes On Craft

The Art of Romantic Tension

For our Romance Week series, novelist LaQuette shares essential lessons on building narrative tension by manipulating your characters’ goals, motivations, and conflicts.

Feb 13, 2023

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

Publishing Is Finally Taking Romance Seriously—and Jasmine Guillory is Here For It

For our Romance Week series, Arriel Vinson interviews bestselling novelist Jasmine Guillory about the past, present, and future of the romance genre.

Feb 14, 2023

Cover Photo: This is an illustration of a woman holding a book in front of half her face. The book cover has a woman's and man's face looking at each other smiling. The woman's face on the cover matches up with the real womans face. In the background are drawings of heart shaped candy with "pros" and "cons" written on them.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

Should I Self-Publish My Romance Novel?

For our Romance Week series, Bryn Donovan breaks down the pros and cons of self publishing as a romance writer.

Feb 14, 2023

Arts & Culture

Cover Photo: An image of teeth being looked at by a dentist as a metaphor for consumption

When Food is the Only Narrative We Consume

Cover Photo: An image of the writer Jessica Pavia with her grandfather

Wearing My Grief On My Sleeve

Cover Photo: This photograph is a still from the movie 'The Banshees of Inisherin.' In it, Colin Farrell stands over Brandon Gleeson in a dark pub, looking a bit distraught and concerned. Gleeson stares straight ahead of him.

Jessika Bouvier

Craft Books from Catapult

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison

Catapult | nonfiction

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Catapult

Body Work by Melissa Febos

Catapult | short stories

Best Debut Short Stories 2022 edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers

Columns

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Columns | Formation Jukebox

Releasing the Fear of St. Vincent’s “Year of the Tiger”

I fear it and I dream of it: total honesty with my family, opening the door of my personhood and letting them see all of me.

Feb 06, 2023

Cover Photo: Many many hanging pocket watches, all telling different times

Columns | Love And Silence

To Tell a Story Is to Tell It Again, to Carry Another Time

Regret, I was once told, means to weep again. My first thought, when I heard this: That’s what it is to tell a story.

Matthew Salesses

Jan 24, 2023

Cover Photo: An image of Licca-chan a mixed race doll that embodies Kawaii culture

Columns | Kawaii Intimacies

The Mixed-Race Fantasy Behind Kawaii Aesthetics

Toward my “Japanese Barbie,” I felt mostly indifferent.

Jan 17, 2023

Places

Cover Photo: A landscape photograph by the author of Big Sur: an impossibly sapphire coastline, a clear sky, and a deserted shore—it is, as the author describes, the edge of the continent

In Travel Journalism, After Every Disaster Comes “the Perfect Time to Visit”

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of the author

Walking Off Grief on the Appalachian Trail

Gunnar Lundberg

Cover Photo: This illustration shows a figure wearing a blue button down shirt and gold corduroy pants seated amongst yellow and white stars that show up as pin pricks against an inky blue sky.

Mourning In and Out of Our Clothes

Poetry

Cover Photo: This photograph looks through golden grasses in a prairie as the sun sets, washing the field in orange light.

Catapult | Poetry

RATIONING SWEETGRASS

a steadfast soul-birth, tried and true / this is where you sing creation into being

Sep 22, 2022

Cover Photo: Photograph by Lucia Macedo/okeykat/Unsplash

Catapult | Poetry

Complicit Poem

When was the last time you chose / a glass of pinot over fair pay?

Sep 13, 2022

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Catapult | Poetry

GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica

Though, no man can disappoint me / as much as the body I was / born into. Kidding, obvi. I’m Chilling!

Aug 30, 2022

Fiction

Cover Photo: Photographs by Shefali Lincoln and via NASA/Unsplash

Fiction | Short Story

The Tremendous One

Pui touches his nose to confirm he’s still there. He’s alive and, surprisingly, grateful.

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Feb 03, 2023

Cover Photo: a night sky hanging above a dirt road, with a car perpendicular to the road

Fiction | Short Story

In the After

We stayed warm and near to each other around the crackling flames. That’s how we continued on.

Jan 27, 2023

Cover Photo: Illustration and animation by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Clarity

Clarity knows how to turn your pain into an apology, but Nid Jeuniper has trained me a way out of this scenario.

Jan 20, 2023