Catapult

Cover Photo: Detail from Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Samson and Delilah" (ca. 1528–30)/The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Columns | Daughters Of Eve

On Delilah and the Villains We Make of Women Who Seek Power

Succubus, siren, gold-digger, temptress: There are so many words for a woman with money in her hands.

Jan 14, 2020

Cover Photo: A textured illustration of two women facing one another in front of an open road and blue sky. One woman's face goes up in blue flames.

People | Health | Ritual

How My Fear of Loss Became a Fear of Fire

On some level, we all know: Everyone who is etched into our being will one day vanish.

Suzanne Guillette

Jan 13, 2020

Cover Photo: A sepia photo of a wood writing desk and empty chair in an empty room, sunlight streaming through the windows.

Columns | Dialek / Dialect

The Grammar of Time Travel

There is a comfort in believing that all our ancestors’ understandings of time and space, however met with destruction, live on.

Khairani Barokka *

Jan 13, 2020

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Kenneth R. Rosen, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing a Book Proposal, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing a Book Proposal

Kenneth R. Rosen

Catapult online classes: Jana Casale , 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Capturing Everyday Life in Narrative , Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Capturing Everyday Life in Narrative

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: Sharlene Teo, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Building & Sustaining Emotional Suspense, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Building & Sustaining Emotional Suspense

Catapult online classes: Allie Rowbottom, 6-Week Online Advanced Memoir Workshop, Nonfiction, Memoir, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction, Memoir | Workshop

6-Week Online Advanced Memoir Workshop

Allie Rowbottom

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

Catapult online classes: Brian Gresko, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: The Foundations of Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: The Foundations of Creative Nonfiction

Catapult online classes: Taylor Larsen, The Online Novel Generator: Twelve Weeks to a Full Draft, Novel, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Novel, Fiction | Workshop

The Online Novel Generator: Twelve Weeks to a Full Draft

Celebrating one year of Catapult Artists

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of Sirin Thada

Catapult | Catapult Artist

Stirring Ideas to Life: Sirin Thada, Catapult Artist for May

By leaving her job as a lawyer and taking a leap of faith to become a full-time illustrator, Sirin Thada says, “I was finally honoring a part of me that had been there all along.”

May 31, 2019

Cover Photo: photo of Catapult creative director Nicole Caputo working at her desk, with laptop, designs, and book covers

Catapult | Catapult Artist

“It’s a great honor to lay eyes on a writer’s work and help give it a visual identity”: Nicole Caputo on Art, Design, and the First Year of the Catapult Artist Program

“Because Catapult is multifaceted, because our content spans so many subjects, it seemed the Catapult Artist program would really be an extension of what the magazine was already doing.”

Oct 31, 2019

Cover Photo: Kim Salt sits at her desk at work

Catapult | Catapult Artist

The Challenges of Distilling Metaphor into Art: Kim Salt, Catapult Artist for November

“Always meet your deadlines, do good work, and be easy to get along with.”

Nov 27, 2019

Fans

Cover Photo: a photograph of Japanese wrestler Tetsuya Naito

Why Wrestler Tetsuya Naito Is the Unlikely Hero I Needed

Cover Photo: Photography by Tore Sætre/Wikimedia

For Black Women, Love Is a Dangerous Thing—“Bitter” Showed Me How to Do It Anyway

Cover Photo: Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Love, Peace, and Taco Grease: How I Left My Abusive Husband and Found Guy Fieri

New from Catapult Books

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Catapult | fiction

Sea Monsters: A Novel by Chloe Aridjis

To keep the sun alive 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction | novel

To Keep the Sun Alive: A Novel by Rabeah Ghaffari

The story prize 3dcvr

anthology | Catapult | fiction

The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction ed. by Larry Dark

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Catapult | fiction

Optic Nerve: A Novel by María Gainza

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Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

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

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Catapult | memoir

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

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Catapult | fiction | short stories

Floyd Harbor: Stories by Joel Mowdy

The summer demands 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction | novel

The Summer Demands: A Novel by Deborah Shapiro

Columns

Cover Photo: An image of the iconic Abbey Road album in which all the Beatles cross the street

Columns | In This Climate

“Here Comes the Sun” Was an Anthem of Hope, Now It’s a Reminder of Climate Change

Every day, as news reports about climate change become more threatening, I grow more nostalgic for the places and objects of my childhood that feel increasingly imperiled.

Jan 09, 2020

Cover Photo: A photo of a walkway leading to a colorful yellow, green, and red building, rainbow streamers hanging above the stone path. A monkey inspects the grass on the side.

Columns | Darjeeling Journal

Walking Paths to Self and Family in Darjeeling

In Darjeeling, the landscape and my familyscape seemed to be living, breathing beings, the paths like veins and the stories like the flow of blood.

Ann Tashi Slater

Jan 09, 2020

Cover Photo: Illustration of two sisters' overlapping faces, one sister blond-haired and pale, the other with dark brown hair and olive skin

Columns | Invisible History

“Are You Really Sisters?”

The only means for talking about our mixed heritage was the ‘adorable’ contrast between ‘the girls,’ as we were called: one light, one dark; same parents, different skin.

Jan 08, 2020

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: Three shot glasses full of clear alcohol against a black background, a different slice of fruit diving into each, lighting the drink up with their neon glows—orange, red, blue—splashing brightly into the darkness.

Fiction | Short Story

You Do You

She updates the simple bio on her dating profile: “looking for nothing serious. I am really into knives. Really, really into knives, ask me about it.”

Jan 10, 2020

Cover Photo: An illustration of two intimate figures embracing in silhouette against a backdrop of stars and planets; celestial bodies

Fiction | Short Story

Venus Conjunct Saturn

Maybe it wasn’t that Angie wanted to break things off with Kate; she just didn’t know enough to decide if she wanted to keep going.

Claire Rudy Foster

Jan 03, 2020

Cover Photo: A woman with dark hair is decorating a beautiful Christmas tree

Fiction | Short Story

The Christmas Story

This time of year, there are so many people pretending excitement when they feel none.

Dec 20, 2019