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Places | At Work

Honesty Is the Best Policy—Especially in Focus Groups

There will always be liars in the focus group, but Fred was never one of them.

Danielle Sepulveres

Feb 21, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Ivan Kuraev

Columns | Sidewalk Naturalist

An Icon of the American Wilderness is Alive in the Bronx

On the surprising research underway in Van Cortlandt Park and the American Museum of Natural History.

Feb 20, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Anja Silbar for Catapult

Columns | Bayou Diaries

What It Means to Live in Houston

In a city made up of many cities, spread out, like tiny countries, ascribing their influence is a lot like trekking through a tiny country of your own.

Bryan Washington

Feb 20, 2019

People | Legacies

A New Myth: Untethering My Name from White Folks’ Imaginations

Victoria Massie

Oct 18, 2017

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: John Lingan, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing Profiles & Immersive Journalism, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing Profiles & Immersive Journalism

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: 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: Alison Kinney, 3-Week Online Seminar: Start Writing, Open-Genre, Seminar

Online | Open-Genre | Seminar

3-Week Online Seminar: Start Writing

Catapult online classes: Wayétu Moore, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Transforming Experience Into Essay, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Transforming Experience Into Essay

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

Catapult online classes: Moriel Rothman-Zecher, 6-Week Advanced Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Political Fiction, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Advanced Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Political Fiction

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Catapult online classes: Claire Schwartz, 6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: The Art of Attention, Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: The Art of Attention

Claire Schwartz

In honor of Black History Month

Cover Photo: I Would Die 4 U by Rock Martinez/jpellgen/flickr

Places | Where Are You From

Black & Midwestern: On the Mississippi and Sites of Memory

“The question of where you’re from is often met with eager anticipation to easily judge you.”

Mar 13, 2018

Cover Photo: Photograph by William Stitt/Unsplash

People | Bodies

Once I Had Black Hairdressers, I Learned That Black Hair Did Not Equal Pain

These women showed me how to love and care for myself—the only way a Black woman could.

Dec 06, 2018

Cover Photo: Illustration by Elizabeth Haidle for Catapult

People | Legacies

What Is Common, What Is Rare: Why Extraordinary Events Cannot Eclipse Everyday Racism

We’d denounce the marches and torches and chants. When that moment passed, we’d continue to live with the ghosts of our country’s peculiar legacy.

Jan 14, 2019

On the Road

Cover Photo: Photograph by Alexandra Marvar

Facing My Fears in the World’s Largest Sand Desert

Alexandra Marvar

Cover Photo: Photography courtesy of the author

On the Haunting Beauty of Roadside Crosses in New Mexico

Cover Photo: photo courtesy of the author

Finding Faith Beyond God on the Camino de Santiago

Andrea Ruggirello

Columns | What Genes Can’t Tell Us

Two Black Parents of an Undiagnosed Child Walk Into a Meeting: On Race, Special Education, and Our Son’s IEP

Apr 17, 2018

New from Catapult Books

Optic nerve 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

Optic Nerve: A Novel by María Gainza (Pre-Order)

To keep the sun alive 3dcvr

Catapult | novel | fiction

To Keep the Sun Alive: A Novel by Rabeah Ghaffari

Meander spiral explode 3dcvr

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison (Pre-Order)

Rough magic 3dcvr

Catapult | memoir

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

The summer demands 3dcvr

Catapult | novel | fiction

The Summer Demands: A Novel by Deborah Shapiro (Pre-Order)

Floyd harbor 3dcvr

Catapult | short stories | fiction

Floyd Harbor: Stories by Joel Mowdy (Pre-Order)

The story prize 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction | anthology

The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction ed. by Larry Dark (Pre-Order)

Sea monsters 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

Sea Monsters: A Novel by Chloe Aridjis

Columns

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Columns | My Future, My Fertility

Thinking About My Future and My Fertility at Thirty-Six (and Eight Months)

The desire to be a mother is now something that lingers inside of me, an omnipresent hunger.

Feb 19, 2019

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Columns | Failed Utopias

When You’re the Last Remaining Member of a Failed Utopia

How do individuals hold on to their ideals in such a time?

Rachel Louise Martin

Feb 13, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Levi Hastings/20th Century Fox

Columns | Movie Made Gay

When Popular Films Misrepresent My Country, They Misrepresent Me

When people tell me “I don’t look Colombian,” I’m reminded of how pop culture gets my home country of Colombia wrong—where we are, who we are, and what we can look like.

Manuel Betancourt

Feb 12, 2019

On Writing

Cover Photo: Photograph by Ace Tilton Ratcliff

As a Disabled Writer, I Know My Stories Are Worth Telling

Ace Tilton Ratcliff

Cover Photo: Image courtesy of Bundo Kim via Unsplash

Every Day is a Writing Day, With or Without an MFA

Cover Photo: Photograph by Annie Spratt

Don’t Submit. Pitch.

Fiction

Cover Photo: Art by Anja Slibar for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

The Collateral Recovery Business

She has taken back a vintage Pac Man pinball machine, gold teeth, and hair extensions. She has taken back virginity and faith in God. But can she take something back from the shadow of a woman she loved?

Sarah Gerkensmeyer

Feb 15, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Anja Slibar for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Keeping Up With The Other Us

Of course there was no best. Of course they were the same. I wanted to win in any case.

Mikaella Clements

Feb 08, 2019

Cover Photo: Photographs by Tobi Gaulke/Flickr and Nikita Tikhomirov/Unsplash; photo illustration by Matt Ortile

Fiction | Short Story

Men Who Sing the Music of the Night

When it was over, Myrrh clapped as much for their own feat of love as for their partner’s artistic accomplishment. They were proud and pleased—and then came the man who sang “The Music of the Night.”

Migueltzinta Solís

Feb 01, 2019