Catapult

Cover Photo: A green sign for Russell Street on a bright blue day

People | Relationships

Grieving When You Can’t Gather

Nora Feely on loss during the pandemic, chosen families, and the small but devastating things 2020 took away.

Apr 13, 2021

Cover Photo: A screenshot of Bend It Like Beckham with Jess (the film's heroine) in a soccer jersey and the girls in pink who sit on a bench

Columns | Sepia Tone

The Women Who Don’t Bend in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’

The film contains a pantheon of archetypes, all of them represented in these Indian Panjabi women.

Apr 12, 2021

Cover Photo: An animated illustration of a woman with long hair in the middle of a field, staring at a house, as the scene shifts ever so slightly around her, as if flickering

Fiction | Short Story

twisty little passages

You walk to the house. The door blocks you from going farther.

Apr 09, 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Anna Qu, 10-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Beyond the "Me" in Memoir, Nonfiction, Memoir, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction, Memoir | Workshop

10-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Beyond the "Me" in Memoir

Catapult online classes: Rosebud Ben-Oni, 4-Week Online Poetry Seminar: Pump Up the Volume: Poetry & the Music Video, Poetry, Seminar

Online | Poetry | Seminar

4-Week Online Poetry Seminar: Pump Up the Volume: Poetry & the Music Video

Rosebud Ben-Oni

Catapult online classes: Hannah Howard, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Introduction to Food Writing, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

4-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Introduction to Food Writing

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: S. Brook Corfman, 4-Week Online Workshop: Understanding the Prose Poem, Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

4-Week Online Workshop: Understanding the Prose Poem

S. Brook Corfman

Catapult online classes: Poupeh Missaghi, 4 Weeks of Reading in Translation as Writers, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reading Group

Online | Fiction, Nonfiction | Reading Group

4 Weeks of Reading in Translation as Writers

Poupeh Missaghi

Catapult online classes: Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Online Novel Generator: 12 Months to a Full Draft , Fiction, Novel, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Novel | Workshop

The Online Novel Generator: 12 Months to a Full Draft

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Catapult online classes: Sam Allingham, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Social Fiction, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Social Fiction

Don’t Write Alone

Cover Photo: A pattern of green pear, purple and and orange berries, and yellow jackets surround a center photo of Ross Gay

Don’t Write Alone | Columns

Writers Who Eat: Bix Gabriel in Conversation with Ross Gay

“I’m writing about my relationship with the land, and I need to get from sorrow to debt to gratitude.”

Apr 05, 2021

Cover Photo: an illustration of hands with deep pink fingernails holding an open book; on the left page is a picture of a pad of yellow paper filled with indistinguishable writing and a black pen and two crumpled sheets of yellow paper; on the right side is a photograph of the author, R.O. Kwon, in an oval frame

On Writing | Don’t Write Alone | Notes On Craft

A Case Against Killing Your Darlings

I want any novel I write to be full of darlings. If possible, all darlings.

Apr 05, 2021

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

How Science Journalist Ed Yong Helps Readers Make Sense of the World

“If you do it well, science writing trains you to grapple with uncertainty, to embrace nuance, to run toward complexity, to try hard to make sense of the world.”

Apr 09, 2021

Debut

Cover Photo: A photo collage of a book cover (featuring a figure walking alongside an elephant) and the book's author (a white woman with a few gray hairs smiling at the camera)

Keep Writing, Just Keep Writing

Cover Photo: An image of a type writer and hands typing as hot pink flames are ablaze in the background

When There Is No Right Way to Heal

Destiny Birdsong

Cover Photo: An illustration of two figures in a tender embrace, cuddled up on a couch

Writing Sex with Women, by Women, for Women

Emily Hashimoto

New from Catapult Books

novel | fiction | Catapult

The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts

novel | fiction | Catapult

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

memoir | Catapult

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez

fiction | Catapult

Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham

short stories | Horror | fiction | Catapult

Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

social science | Racism | nonfiction | Catapult

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

women | nonfiction | memoir | Catapult

Love Is An Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

nonfiction | Catapult

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Columns

Cover Photo: Two mannequins well dressed in men's suits, with more department store suits visible in the background.

Columns | Werk.

“Passing” as Straight at Work Didn’t Protect Me from Homophobia

I privately couldn’t get over the fact that she’d even felt comfortable speaking to me that way.

Apr 07, 2021

Cover Photo: An image of Janet Jackson

Columns | Memory Book

Janet Jackson Helped Me Find My Voice as a Writer

All I knew was that here was this woman who looked like the community I loved and interacted with.

Apr 01, 2021

Cover Photo: illustration of hands peeling a Korean pear

Columns | Bad Kimchi

Don’t Break the Peel

Halmoni didn’t tell me she loved me. Her love could be seen in the work of her hands.

Mar 31, 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: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Catapult | Poetry

A Letter to My Mother, or Ode to Invisible Things

Dear sudden inspiration, creeping uncertainty, tiny splinter of glass, / sometimes you cannot be enough.

Ryan Dzelzkalns

Mar 15, 2021

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Catapult | Poetry

Time Lapse

In a time lapse, nothing happens smoothly. / Red horns quake as they splinter / from limbs on the bottlebrush.

Gabrielle Bates

Mar 12, 2021

Cover Photo: A foggy landscape with trees and water just visible through sun-shot fog

Catapult | Poetry

Some Days

Some days come too soon.

Mar 02, 2021

Fiction

Cover Photo: A spiraling rainbow meant to convey the never-ending spiral and hypnotization of our endless streaming content

Fiction | Short Story

The Joneses

They were lucky for the brilliant output of the world’s brilliant minds, for so many chances to consume it. Lucky to live in an age of plenty, of pleasure.

Apr 02, 2021

Cover Photo: Illustration by Sirin Thada for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Mouth, Fist

He never imagined himself holding a placard, waving a fist. But this, this he could do. People needed to be fed.

Mar 26, 2021

Cover Photo: A group of people pointing blame at one another while a werewolf's shadow looms behind them unnoticed

Fiction | Short Story

Camp Games

Werewolves, you unscathed bastards, open your eyes and decide who to kill.

Alysandra Dutton

Mar 19, 2021