Catapult

Cover Photo: A photograph of a child wearing a baseball cap and turning to look at the camera. One of their hands is reaching up to grasp a branch. As they turn to camera, the long strands of hair at the back of their head hang down their white t-shirt.

People | Bodies

Business in the Front, Rebellion in the Back

My childhood rat tail was a lesson on the borders of class and gender.

Jun 15, 2021

Cover Photo: A costume mask that depicts an old man with gray hair and wrinkles:

Culture | Queer Life

Halloween 1998, Old Man with Old Wife

Obviously, I cannot be the old woman. Obviously, I cannot be the woman.

Krys Malcolm Belc

Jun 15, 2021

Cover Photo: A photograph of the actors Anne Hathaway and Stark Sands portraying the twins Viola and Sebastian in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Columns | Ghost Light

Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ Taught Me About Being a Twin

For me and my twin, the surprise was not our matching tumors, but that hers was malignant and mine was benign.

Lindsey Trout Hughes

Jun 14, 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Daniel Allen Cox, 1-Day Nonfiction Intensive: When Is an Essay Finished?, Nonfiction, Intensive

Online | Nonfiction | Intensive

1-Day Nonfiction Intensive: When Is an Essay Finished?

Daniel Allen Cox

Catapult online classes: Nicola Maye Goldberg, 2-Day Online Fiction Seminar: Writing the Novella, Fiction, Novel, Seminar

Online | Fiction, Novel | Seminar

2-Day Online Fiction Seminar: Writing the Novella

Nicola Maye Goldberg

Catapult online classes: Aishwarya Kumar, 8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Long-Form Stories That Keep Readers Hooked, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Long-Form Stories That Keep Readers Hooked

Aishwarya Kumar

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: Laura Yan, 4-Week Online Publishing Seminar: Freelancing 101 , Publishing, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Publishing, Nonfiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Publishing Seminar: Freelancing 101

Catapult online classes: Simon Van Booy, 8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Learn to Write Great Fiction in Your Own Voice, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Learn to Write Great Fiction in Your Own Voice

Catapult online classes: Ploi Pirapokin, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Fantastical Characters, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Fantastical Characters

Catapult online classes: Bruna Dantas Lobato, 6-Week Online Open-Genre Workshop: The Art of Translation, Fiction, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Open-Genre Workshop: The Art of Translation

Bruna Dantas Lobato

Don’t Write Alone

Cover Photo: This gif shows a person signing the ASL symbol for "write." They are wearing a black T-shirt and we only see their hands and their chest.

Don’t Write Alone | Writing Life

Learning to Write My Truth as a Deaf Queer Writer

The best thing that writing can do is to replace a shallow illusion with something more nuanced and closer to the truth.

Apr 26, 2021

Cover Photo: on the left, a photo of author, poet, and journalist Clint Smith; on the right, the cover of his new book, HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

“I hope people consider the different ways history can be told”: A Conversation with Clint Smith

“Who we are, what our identities and backgrounds and politics are, all of these things animate how we experience a place.”

Jun 09, 2021

Cover Photo: An image of the Anna Steidel award hanging on a wall of blue that Kris found

Don’t Write Alone | Writing Life

My Name Is Not Anna Steidel—But Her Name Is On My Wall

There is an award in my office that does not belong to me.

Kristopher Jansma

Jun 10, 2021

Books

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

How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy

Ravynn 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

Cover Photo: A sampling of nine special-edition journals published during the Durga Puja holidays, which heavily feature novellas.

An Ode to the Great Undead Novella

New from Catapult Books

Catapult | nonfiction

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Catapult | nonfiction | Racism | social science

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Catapult | memoir

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez

Catapult | fiction

Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham

Catapult | fiction | novel

The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts

Catapult | memoir | nonfiction | women

Love Is An Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

Catapult | fiction | novel

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

Catapult | fiction | Horror | short stories

Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Columns

Cover Photo: A screenshot of 'Where's the Party Yaar'

Columns | Sepia Tone

The Fraught Identity of ‘Where’s the Party Yaar’

I get the melancholic task of laughing through my grief.

Jun 10, 2021

Cover Photo: illustration of Edward and Alphonse from Fullmetal Alchemist

Columns | Mistranslate

FMA and Me: Reckoning With Anime as Japanese and American

The affectations of white anime enthusiasts made me feel fake, confusing my yearning for the language and familiarity I craved.

Jun 09, 2021

Cover Photo: An image of a mural of two hands in a rainbow of colors holding one another

Columns | Home/Girl/Health

When a Friendship Ends But the Love Survives

With the help of all of my friends—my best one included—I’ve gotten better at being my whole self.

Destiny Birdsong

Jun 03, 2021

Wander, Woman

Cover Photo: cover comic illustration of Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel, grinning with one fist extended in the air

Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel, and Me

Gabrielle Bellot

Cover Photo: the cast of the show 'Freaks and Geeks' in front of a row of orange lockers

Rewatching ‘Freaks and Geeks’ in a Polarized America

Gabrielle Bellot

Cover Photo: photograph of a scuba-diver ascending in a blue-lit column between two massive black shapes that might be underwater rocks

The Year of Breath

Gabrielle Bellot

Poetry

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

Cover Photo: Original illustration by Sirin Thada featuring many schools of fish, an underwater doorway, and a person standing in it with a suitcase.

Catapult | Poetry

Origin Story

I became an invader myself / a pathogen with survival traits

May 24, 2021

Fiction

Cover Photo: Colorful watercolor of a child with a green dress and long hair reaching into a dark hole. The drawing is from the perspective of inside the hole, looking up at the child reaching in and her hand is very close up. Light is coming from behind the child, but around the edges of the hole is dark.

Fiction | Flash

What Happens to Little Girls

"Something in the hole grabs back. Something that doesn’t give up. Something with fingers and nails just like mine."

Julie Cadman-Kim

Jun 11, 2021

Cover Photo: In this illustration, we are looking across the Brooklyn Bridge from the backseat of a taxi cab. We can see the driver and the front of the cab and beyond the windshield we see the bridge and a shoreline filled with bright buildings. Everything is in deep pinks and purples, like a dark and insulated winter night. In the rearview mirror we see the outlines of two people about to kiss.

Fiction | Flash

Fifty Last Dates

Back then I genuinely believed that every next man was the last one.

Jun 04, 2021

Cover Photo: An aerial view of the Florida everglades

Fiction | Short Story

Spring Migration

Lori was in real, actual danger, but it was easy to convince herself she was not.

May 28, 2021