Catapult

Cover Photo: illustration of a young woman, out for a run and wearing a T-shirt and shorts, stretching and looking over her shoulder at a red car looming close by.

People | I Survived

The Hunter and the Hunted

Suddenly, I wasn’t just prey, I was bait. In order to hunt him down, I had to be both cautious and on display.

Sep 10, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Hannah Gullixson/Unsplash

People | Generations

This Is About Smoking

I’m coming apart like the first cigarette I ever rolled. Loose, slobbering, and burning too fast.

Sep 04, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Shing Yin Khor for Catapult

Columns | Bad Kimchi

My Harabeoji Taught Me It’s Always Better to Add More Garlic

Harabeoji’s favorite thing to eat, and the thing to which he attributed his long life, was raw garlic.

Sep 03, 2019

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

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: Blair Hurley, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Building Powerful Scenes in Fiction, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Building Powerful Scenes in Fiction

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: Jennifer Close, 4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Getting Started, Fiction, Novel, Seminar

Online | Fiction, Novel | Seminar

4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Getting Started

Catapult online classes: Jamil Jan Kochai, 4-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Building a Short Story Piece By Piece, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

4-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Building a Short Story Piece By Piece

Jamil Jan Kochai

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: Hannah Howard, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Introduction to Food Writing, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

4-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Introduction to Food Writing

Catapult online classes: Lindsay Hunter, Online Generative Workshop: 6 Weeks, 5 Flash Fiction Pieces , Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

Online Generative Workshop: 6 Weeks, 5 Flash Fiction Pieces

Columns

Cover Photo: a vintage illustration of a young woman next to a fawn, a scene from the fairy tale "Brother and Sister"

Columns | Tales For Willful Readers

On Fairy Tales and the Ghostliness of Early Motherhood

What saves these lost mothers is different in every fairy tale; often they’re brought back simply by virtue of being recognized. For me, coming back to life took time.

Sep 03, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Maki/Flickr

Columns | Tokyo Journal

Learning to Cook in Japan, I Fed My Family and My Sense of Self

The bento lunches the hoikuen expected mothers to produce were an exercise in artistry. But I didn’t care about making the perfect bento.

Ann Tashi Slater

Aug 29, 2019

Cover Photo: In Immigrating from Japan, I Lost Language, Home, and Pokémon by Nina Coomes

Columns | Mistranslate

In Immigrating from Japan, I Lost Language, Home, and Pokémon

Maybe, I thought, I could play Pokémon with my peers and bridge the gap between me and my an all-white classroom. But we lose things in translation.

Aug 28, 2019

Legacies

Cover Photo: Photograph by Doniree Walker/Flickr

How I Found My Long-Lost Cousin, the Queer Role Model I Always Needed

Sarah Emily Baum

Cover Photo: Photograph by David Robert Bilwas/Flickr

A Eulogy for All the Black Boys Who Loved the Sky

Jordan K. Thomas

Cover Photo: Photograph by Charles Deluvio/Unsplash

What Does a Multigenerational Mixed-Race Family Look Like?

New from Catapult Books

Sea monsters 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

Sea Monsters: A Novel by Chloe Aridjis

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

Optic nerve 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

Optic Nerve: A Novel by María Gainza

Meander spiral explode 3dcvr

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

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

Rough magic 3dcvr

Catapult | memoir

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

Floyd harbor 3dcvr

Catapult | short stories | fiction

Floyd Harbor: Stories by Joel Mowdy

The summer demands 3dcvr

Catapult | novel | fiction

The Summer Demands: A Novel by Deborah Shapiro

Culture

Cover Photo: Photograph by Joshua Smelser/Flickr

Culture | Music

In Defense of the Low Bar: An Ode to Everclear

Kurt Cobain would not approve, but privately I wondered if there wasn’t space for a beloved burnished thing in my new and improved pop pantheon.

Brittany K. Allen

Aug 29, 2019

Cover Photo: Still from "Camelot"/Warner Bros.-Seven Arts

Culture | Movies

‘Camelot,’ the Hollywood Failure That Taught Me to Live Again

I think now, what is life if not a rather ridiculous, fumbling, histrionic, financially ruinous, unwieldy thing?

Aug 21, 2019

Cover Photo: What Vin Diesel Taught Me About Singing and Sincerity by Joshua Bohnsack

Culture | Music

What Vin Diesel Taught Me About Singing and Sincerity

Vin closes his eyes and bares his soul, meaning each word of the song, and isn’t that the point? Vin never claimed to be a good singer.

Joshua Bohnsack

Aug 20, 2019

Fifteen Minutes

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle’s Restaurant Critic, on Food, Fusion, and What’s Often Lost in Translation

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Japanese Breakfast, a.k.a. Michelle Zauner, Talks with Noah Cho About Food, Family, and Grief

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

How Rachel Khong Built The Ruby, a Coworking Community for San Francisco Creatives

Anita Felicelli

Fiction

Cover Photo: Illustration by Alexandra Bowman for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

The Projection of Jupiter in Zoo City

Humans should never have come to Florida, but their biggest mistake of all was Zoo City.

Aug 30, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Alexandra Bowman for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Mementorol Makes Lost Love Feel Found

“Like my heart was a tiny explosion,” is how one woman on r/mementorol describes her experience. I want to feel that way again.

Claire Lobenfeld

Aug 23, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Alexandra Bowman for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

We Can’t Be Good at Everything

He is forced into farcical attempts to catch her attention. Every other moment of his life has been arranged to this purpose, so why should his son’s birthday be any different?

Aug 16, 2019