Catapult

Cover Photo: Art courtesy of the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana

Places | Migrations

How I Find Home in the Persian Poetry of Hafez

Home means that you’re anchored in something deeper than second-hand nostalgia, that you miss your country because it is a part of you.

Jun 12, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Ozan Safak/Unsplash; photo illustration by Matt Ortile

Culture | Music

Listening to Fall Out Boy on the Brink of Collapse

The release of "Infinity on High" marked the final moments of the mid-2000s, a time when collapse nested on the tongues of everyone in my universe but never made it out of their mouths.

Jun 12, 2019

Cover Photo: Scene from 'Mars Attacks!'/Tim Burton Productions, Warner Bros.

Columns | Lurid Speculations

Women Are from Mars Attacks!

The world of this movie is a world in which transness is not the exception but the rule.

Jun 11, 2019

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

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

Online | Novel, Fiction | Seminar

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

Stephanie Feldman

Catapult online classes: Kali Fajardo-Anstine, 2-Week Online Fiction Master Class: Writing Place, Fiction, Master Class

Online | Fiction | Master Class

2-Week Online Fiction Master Class: Writing Place

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Catapult online classes: Chia-Chia Lin, 4-Week Online Novel Workshop: Creating an Immersive World, Fiction, Novel, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Novel | Workshop

4-Week Online Novel Workshop: Creating an Immersive World

Catapult online classes: Christopher Hermelin, 3-Week Online Publishing Seminar: Getting Your Query Letter Right, Publishing, Seminar

Online | Publishing | Seminar

3-Week Online Publishing Seminar: Getting Your Query Letter Right

Christopher Hermelin

Catapult online classes: Maria Kuznetsova, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: The Magic of the Young Narrator, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: The Magic of the Young Narrator

Maria Kuznetsova

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: 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: Anja Mutić, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Breaking into Travel Writing, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Breaking into Travel Writing

In honor of Pride Month

Cover Photo: Photograph by Raw Pixel/Unsplash

Culture | Queer Life

How I Learned the Craft of Going on Dates with Girls

I have dated long enough to see a change, and I am still young enough to work at the craft.

Nov 15, 2018

Cover Photo: Photograph by Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash

Culture | Queer Life

As a Trans Person, I Don’t Need You to Hug Me. I Need You to Fight for Me.

Trans people have rights because we’re human—not because we’re special. So why does having those rights recognized require a flood of trans tears?

Dec 06, 2018

Cover Photo: Photographs courtesy of the Smith College Library and the Houghton Library at Harvard University

Culture | Queer Life

“I should hate forever to be a burden to you”: Lessons in Love from Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

I don’t want to take time away from your book, she said, but the book could wait. My writing was always there. She might not be.

Jan 09, 2019

Queer Life

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of the LGBT Center

Cooking Up Pride and Community at the LGBT Center’s Annual Garden Party

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sarah Robbins for Catapult

What It Means to Be Trans in My Tiny Town

Cover Photo: Scene from "Paris is Burning"/Academy Entertainment, Off White Productions

Speculating on Queer Pasts to Achieve a Queer Eternity for My Tío Cano

Marcos Gonsalez

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

Columns

Cover Photo: Illustration by Shing Yin Khor for Catapult

Columns | Bad Kimchi

Burning Your Mouth to Spite Your Heart

I need something that is going to tingle, tell me the food is alive. Because I want to be alive, too.

Jun 03, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Pan Xiaozhen/Unsplash

Columns | Mom, Interrupted

What It Takes to Advocate for Twice-Exceptional Kids in School

I think about the many invisible struggles, the empty places I have had to fill for my kids. The bridges I’ve had to build.

Katie Rose Pryal

May 29, 2019

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Columns | Why Oming

How My Korean Skincare Routine Protects Me in Wintery, White Wyoming

I take off the effects of the day, the echoes of wind, sleet, and snow. I pamper my skin, urge it to replenish and heal. I am asking myself to brave another day.

Jenny Tinghui Zhang

May 29, 2019

On Writing

Cover Photo: Photographs by Gideon Oladimeji and Adedotun Ajibade

My Father Wishes He Were a Writer, Like Me

Cover Photo: Illustration by Ellen Weinstein for Catapult

As a Nurse and Writer, I Work Toward a Culture of Care

Mary Ann Thomas

Cover Photo: Photograph by Ace Tilton Ratcliff

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

Ace Tilton Ratcliff

Fiction

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sarah Robbins for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

The Kings of Norway

They all were going around trying to prove themselves, litigating the case for their own worth: Look at me, look at me, look at me—I matter, don’t I?

Jun 07, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Stefano Pollio/Unsplash

Fiction | Short Story

Harmless Are the Harvestmen We Don’t Let In

Who is there? I called when a spell of quiet passed, though I already had my guess, an automated sighting notice having gone out last week.

May 31, 2019

Cover Photo: Photograph by Sérgio Alves Santos/Unsplash

Fiction | Short Story

Whatever Doesn’t Kill Me

You’re safe now, said the plates, the walls, the glasses, even the golden chandelier that I hadn’t noticed before.

May 24, 2019