Catapult

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: A photo collage of the author with her family

Arts & Culture | Housing

New York, I Love You—But Are You Bringing Me Down?

What parts of me are still fed by my New York environment? Are other parts of me getting hungrier? For more, or for something else entirely?

Catherine LaSota

Jan 26, 2023

Cover Photo: A photograph of the exterior of a Kwik Trip gas station and its sign depicting gas prices. The sign also says "Resolutions—ha! Fresh bakery inside."

Arts & Culture | Food

My Kwik Trip Gas Station Has Always Been There for Me

I want to preserve this old gas station because it feels like preserving myself.

Jan 25, 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

Writing Residency Resources

Cover Photo: This photo shows two people working on their laptops at a table in front of windows filled with sunshine and greenery. They have cups of coffee and look as if they are enjoying a cowriting session together.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

Get Thee to a Writing Residency

Residency programs offer dedicated time and space to help you level up your writing. Here’s how to apply.

Feb 16, 2022

Cover Photo: This photograph shows three young men sitting on a picturesque rolling green hill. Sheep graze around them and there are blue mountains reaching up into fluffy white clouds in the distance.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

A Person of Color’s Guide to Navigating Writing Residencies

For our Application Week series, Hannah Bae writes about applying to and attending writing residencies as a person of color—along with tips from about ten other writers who identify as BIPOC.

Aug 17, 2022

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a woman sitting up in bed inside a cabin. She has a huge window next to the bed that looks out into a snowy forest.

Don’t Write Alone | Toolkit

How to Set Yourself Up for Success at Your Writing Residency

This guide is meant for writers who are dreaming of getting away to write—and addresses the anxiety many of us feel when we finally get that treasured chunk of time.

Jan 12, 2023

Arts & Culture

Cover Photo: a tablescape of beautifully prepared Nigerian food

Nigerian Food Is Evolving In America—So Am I

Damilola Oyedele

Cover Photo: An aerial shot of a bowl of macaroni and cheese on a marble-top counter. The noodles are in a white bowl and sprinkled liberally with crumbled feta.

An Ode to Kraft Dinner, Food of Troubled Times

Cover Photo: A promotional shot of the actors Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey in the HBO postapocalyptic TV show "The Last of Us."

Why I Hope HBO’s “The Last of Us” Is Nothing Like the Games

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

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

Cover Photo: Photograph by Jason Briscoe/Unsplash

Columns | Half Recipes

You’re Going to Be Cared For: A Recipe for Braised Chicken Thighs

A Le Creuset Dutch oven telegraphs contentment and cheer—but for me, mine is a token of complicated bitterness and longing.

Jan 05, 2023

Places

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

Cover Photo: Photograph by Jakob Owens/Unsplash

As a Black Woman, I’m Learning that Rest Is Resistance

Michelle Chikaonda

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of the author

The Whole Country Is Fighting: A Dispatch from Ukraine

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: 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

Cover Photo: This illustration shows a white house sitting on a bluff overlooking a river. In the river, we see a women's face painted amongst the waves. The color palette is blue, purple, green, and gray.

Fiction | Short Story

Nor Let the Deep Swallow Me Up

This, I knew, was no mere dream: At long last the flood had come to cleanse this preposterous city.

Jan 13, 2023

Cover Photo: This illustration shows the shadow of a werewolf up against a living room wall. We see collections of paintings and tchotchkes scattered around the room, as well as a few empty beer bottles tipped over on counters. The colors are strong reds, yellows, oranges, and greens.

Fiction | Short Story

Die Cuban

Listo had suspected the curse since the hospital, but after his first full moon it was a fact.

Jan 06, 2023