Catapult

Cover Photo: An illustration of a man and a woman, seen from behind, as they look out onto the water. The man is wearing a plaid shirt and a cowboy hat; the woman has long hair and is wearing a tank top. The image is rendered in red, purple, and yellow tones as if to evoke a vivid sunset.

Fiction | Short Story

Pages from Before

Three days, our people had agreed: a real, old-school, ‘Rolling Stone’–style profile.

Molia Dumbleton

Aug 12, 2022

Cover Photo: Promotional still via Element Pictures/BBC Studios

Arts & Culture | Health | Books

Conversations with Friends with Endometriosis

All my life, I had looked for answers in books, and I was no different when it came to endometriosis.

Aug 11, 2022

Cover Photo: Photograph by Stefan Lehner/Unsplash

People | Legacies

On Houses, Ghosts, and “Good Bones”

When we moved out of our house, I wondered: How much of our presence is still there? How much do we haunt the place?

Austin Gilkeson

Aug 11, 2022

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Bruna Dantas Lobato, 6-Week Open-Genre Workshop: Publishing Translations, Fiction, Translation, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Translation | Workshop

6-Week Open-Genre Workshop: Publishing Translations

Bruna Dantas Lobato

Catapult online classes: Frances Badalamenti , 8-Week Fiction Workshop: The Study & Practice of Autofiction, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

8-Week Fiction Workshop: The Study & Practice of Autofiction

Frances Badalamenti

Catapult online classes: Rachel Kincaid, 3-Week Nonfiction Seminar: Theory & Practices of Exploratory Writing, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

3-Week Nonfiction Seminar: Theory & Practices of Exploratory Writing

Catapult online classes: Lee Cole, 6-Week Fiction Workshop: Writing About Place, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Fiction Workshop: Writing About Place

Catapult online classes: Krys Malcolm Belc, 6-Week Generative Nonfiction Workshop: Writing & Revising Linked Flash Essays, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Generative Nonfiction Workshop: Writing & Revising Linked Flash Essays

Krys Malcolm Belc

Catapult online classes: Rachel Vorona Cote, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing Nonfiction for Diverse, Online Audiences, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

6-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing Nonfiction for Diverse, Online Audiences

Rachel Vorona Cote

Catapult online classes: Julia Phillips, 4-Week Fiction Seminar: Structuring Your Story, Fiction, Seminar

Online | Fiction | Seminar

4-Week Fiction Seminar: Structuring Your Story

Catapult online classes: Tara Campbell, 12-Week Speculative Fiction Intensive: Revising Reality, Fiction, Intensive

Online | Fiction | Intensive

12-Week Speculative Fiction Intensive: Revising Reality

Application Week

Cover Photo: An image of some bills 100 dollar bills on fire

Don’t Write Alone | Notes From Class

A Fully Funded MFA Doesn’t Mean Financial Security

As part of our Application Week series, Katerina Ivanov Prado writes about financial insecurity while pursuing her MFA, community, and resilience.

Katerina Ivanov Prado

Aug 15, 2022

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a row of students in a classroom, all masked, all rapt with attention.

Don’t Write Alone | Toolkit

So You Want to Apply for an MFA

For our Application Week series, MFA directors and professors discuss common misconceptions, how they support students, and answer that ubiquitous question: Is getting an MFA worth it?

Aug 15, 2022

Cover Photo: A panel of three women sitting at a judges' table in front of a window. One has a laptop in front of her, a second is taking notes, and a third is speaking.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

How to Apply for Grants and Residencies

As part of our Application Week series, Jasmine Dreame Wagner writes about putting together your strongest proposal to get funding for your work-in-progress.

Jasmine Dreame Wagner

Aug 16, 2022

Arts & Culture

Cover Photo: An image of FSG's book Nevada by Imogen Binnie

What Reading ‘Nevada’ Across Transition Did For Me

Katherine Packert Burke

Cover Photo: A photograph of Sigourney Weaver in the Alien film franchise. She is carrying a young child and holding a large gun in her other hand.

Horror Films Understand the Terror of Pregnancy

Heather O'Neill

Cover Photo: Photograph by Emily Wang/Unsplash

How Perfume Gives Me Peace in My Genderfluidity

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: An image of mother and child; the mother is cradling the baby in her hands

Columns | What Doesn't Translate

What Lullabies Teach Us About Language

In that way, lullabies are like a language of their own.

Aug 04, 2022

Cover Photo: Production still via Senator International/Kingsgate Films/Endgame Entertainment

Columns | Sepia Tone

Finding Nostalgia in Diasporic Film

Immigrant nostalgia is a Hydra—a lashing, many-headed thing made of grief.

Jul 26, 2022

Cover Photo: A still from season one of Abbott Elementary depicting three teachers, played by Quinta Brunson, Lisa Ann Walter, and Sheryl Lee Ralph standing in front of a brick wall and looking perturbed.

Columns | Bell Ringers

Teachers Like the ‘Abbott Elementary’ Staff Need Our Support

The problem isn’t the students. It’s the unforgiving reality of the American education system.

Erin Crosby-Eckstine

Jul 12, 2022

Places

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a dirty bar bathroom covered in stickers, lit in a dingy yet comforting yellow light.

Always Check the Bathrooms

Cover Photo: Photograph by No Revisions/Unsplash

Save a Life, Drink Outside

Joseph Osmundson

Cover Photo: An image of a suburban town

Small Patches of America: When America’s Suburban Romance Is Undone

Pranay Somayajula

Poetry

Cover Photo: An illustration of a figure on a terrace, looking out on a red lake

Catapult | Poetry

anak ko

past mahal / dressed in the garments / of two pronouns.

Jul 08, 2022

Cover Photo: This illustration shows an apartment complex detailed like you are looking at the backside of a dollhouse and cut out of black paper. We see various scenes going on in different rooms, but in particular one apartment shows people having sex, while the apartment below it is being banged and rattled around

Catapult | Poetry

Intellectual Property as a Result

recently I signed a contract / which stipulates anything / I conceive of as a result / of the job belongs to the job

Mar 29, 2022

Cover Photo: This photograph is a close up image of a shiny, orange clam, it's hinges open to the delicate sunshine that reflects off its shell and the wet sand beneath it.

Catapult | Poetry

Laying Down the Groundwork

When I got up before anyone else / I took the heavy clams from the fridge / and put them in a bowl of cool water.

Feb 25, 2022

Fiction

Cover Photo: culinary tools like whisks, strainers, pots, and pans hanging in a dark kitchen, lit by an ominous light

Fiction | Short Story

Pinned

“I didn’t even realize the sun had already set,” I said, turning on a light for Herrick. He awoke with a jerk. “Time to eat.”

Jean-Luc Bouchard

Aug 05, 2022

Cover Photo: Photograph by Jim McDonough/Flickr

Fiction | Short Story

Playing Games

Anyone can play, she said. Just don’t cheat.

Marissa Higgins

Jul 29, 2022

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

An Old Hope

In previous pages of my journal, what I had remembered of the poem she’d shared with me, I jotted down.

Annina Zheng-Hardy

Jul 22, 2022