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Don’t Write Alone | Writing Life

As a Journalist, I Thought I Wasn’t Precious About My Work—Then Someone Tore Apart My Novel

I could see that my editor's notes were going to make the book better, but I had to get over myself and implement them first.

Jessica Goodman

Jun 24, 2021

Cover Photo: A Korean American woman writes at her desk and is surrounded by different scenes

People | Family | Generations

Dear Imo: A Letter from the Korean Diaspora

I made a promise, too, that I would bring her back to you.

Jun 23, 2021

Cover Photo: A photograph of an old theater marquee with capital letters spelling "WORLD" above the sign. On the sign are block letters that read "the world is temporarily closed."

The Radical Possibilities of Virtual Theater

When stage shows went virtual, traditional directors declared that the form was “dead.” They are extremely wrong.

Sabina Sethi Unni

Jun 23, 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Emily Adrian, 4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Writing Dialogue, Fiction, Seminar

Online | Fiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Writing Dialogue

Catapult online classes: Caroline Shannon Karasik, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Getting Published, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Getting Published

Caroline Shannon Karasik

Catapult online classes: Stephanie Feldman, 4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Solve Your Novel’s Structure, Novel, Fiction, Seminar

Online | Novel, Fiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Solve Your Novel’s Structure

Stephanie Feldman

Catapult online classes: Tim Horvath, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Fresh Approaches to Research to Deepen Your Prose, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Fresh Approaches to Research to Deepen Your Prose

Catapult online classes: Dario Diofebi, 8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Plotting Your Novel, Fiction, Novel, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Novel | Workshop

8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Plotting Your Novel

Catapult online classes: Rosebud Ben-Oni, 6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Writing the Sex Poem, Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Writing the Sex Poem

Rosebud Ben-Oni

Catapult online classes: Lexi Freiman, 6-Week Advanced Online Fiction Workshop: Master Class in Editing, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Advanced Online Fiction Workshop: Master Class in Editing

Catapult online classes: Megan Milks, 4 Weeks of Reading New Queer & Trans Lit as Writers, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading Group

Online | Fiction, Nonfiction | Reading Group

4 Weeks of Reading New Queer & Trans Lit as Writers

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: close-up photograph of a pencil, a marker, and several multicolored Post-it notes on a desk, with a laptop in the background and a black notebook in the foreground

Don’t Write Alone | Notes From Class

Revise Toward Praise, Not Away From Criticism

Revising toward praise gives a writer a direction to go, something to build to instead of something to run from.

Jun 14, 2021

Books

Cover Photo: An image of The Phantom Tollbooth’s cover

The Transportive Power of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

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

How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy

Ravynn K. 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

New from Catapult Books

fiction | Catapult

Dead Souls by Sam Riviere

novel | fiction | Catapult

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

women | novel | memoir | essays | Catapult

Pop Song by Larissa Pham

short stories | Catapult

Prepare Her: Stories by Genevieve Plunkett

nonfiction | Catapult

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

fiction | Catapult

You Exist Too Much: A Novel by Zaina Arafat

novel | Catapult

Bewilderness by Karen Tucker

novel | family | Catapult

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer by Jamie Figueroa

Columns

Cover Photo: A photograph of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia—a stone monument—graffitied with colorful words of positive affirmations about Black lives

Columns | Digital Magical Negro

My Creepy Neighbor, Robert E. Lee

I believe that every Black person has a Black voice in our ear, acting as our conscience, checking us if we’re not looking out for other Black people.

Jun 22, 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

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

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