Catapult

Cover Photo: To Grow, To Burn Things Down, To Start Again by Vivian Lee

Columns | Here Is A Song

To Grow, To Burn Things Down, To Start Again

I wanted to quit, to move back to what I knew because the unknown was actually too scary.

May 17, 2021

Cover Photo: An illustration of a woman peering into a fish tank that holds a large silver arowana

Fiction | Short Story

The Five-Year Plan

The family in my novel is like this arowana. Born to hurt things. They are hunters, even when there is nothing left to hunt.

May 14, 2021

Cover Photo: An image of a woman who is traveling and she is looking outside of her window as she sits in an airplane.

People | Places | On The Road

Who Gets to Travel to “Find Themselves”?

The spirit of manifest destiny has been rebranded into the travelogue.

May 13, 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Michele Filgate, 8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Building a Writing Career on the Internet, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Building a Writing Career on the Internet

Michele Filgate

Catapult online classes: Daniel Allen Cox, 1-Day Nonfiction Intensive: When Is an Essay Finished?, Nonfiction, Intensive

Online | Nonfiction | Intensive

1-Day Nonfiction Intensive: When Is an Essay Finished?

Daniel Allen Cox

Catapult online classes: Destiny Birdsong, 6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Say It How? Playing Fast & Loose with Poetic Forms, Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

6-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Say It How? Playing Fast & Loose with Poetic Forms

Destiny Birdsong

Catapult online classes: Aishwarya Kumar, 8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Longform Stories That Keep Readers Hooked, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Longform Stories That Keep Readers Hooked

Aishwarya Kumar

Catapult online classes: Laura Yan, 4-Week Online Publishing Seminar: Freelancing 101 , Publishing, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Publishing, Nonfiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Publishing Seminar: Freelancing 101

Catapult online classes: Simon Van Booy, 8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Learn to Write Great Fiction in Your Own Voice, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

8-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Learn to Write Great Fiction in Your Own Voice

Catapult online classes: Joss Lake, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Bold Fiction, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Writing Bold Fiction

Catapult online classes: Megan Fernandes, 3-Day Online Intensive Poetry Workshop , Poetry, Workshop

Online | Poetry | Workshop

3-Day Online Intensive Poetry Workshop

Megan Fernandes

Don’t Write Alone

Cover Photo: In this still from Missy Elliott's music video for "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)," we see Missy Elliott posing in front of a strange silver spiral--like an entrance to a wormhole. Missy is wearing a hat and sunglasses, reminiscent of a biking helmet and racing goggles, and a large puffy black jacket. She wears dark lipstick and her mouth is open, as if mid-lyric

Don’t Write Alone | Writing Life

Writing Is Time Travel

My writing gives the validation my younger self will need to believe in me, for me, during the years between now and when I won’t know how.

Apr 19, 2021

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: Photograph by Thomas Renaud/Unsplash

Don’t Write Alone | Writing Life

I’m a Nervous Wreck When I Write Prose

I am yet another poet writing a novel. Which is to say, I find myself in hell.

May 06, 2021

On Writing

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: Album cover via Republic Records

Does Your Revision Process Need More Taylor Swift?

Cover Photo: A photograph of the author, a Black woman, with the cover of her book

Let It Be Strange: A Conversation with Naima Coster, Author of ‘What’s Mine and Yours’

Yohanca Delgado

New from Catapult Books

novel | fiction | Catapult

The Inland Sea by Madeleine Watts

novel | fiction | Catapult

Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

women | nonfiction | memoir | Catapult

Love Is An Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar

nonfiction | Catapult

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

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

Columns

Cover Photo: photograph of Taeyeon in a long-sleeved burnt sienna dress against a dark blue background, head tilted to her left, eyes downcast, one arm extended up, hand resting on the back of her head

Columns | From A K Pop Fan, With Love

Dear Taeyeon, It’s Okay Not to Be Okay

Giaae Kwon on Taeyeon, living with depression and suicidal thinking, and how she cares for herself by caring for others—including GomSom, her beloved dogs.

May 12, 2021

Cover Photo: A group of kids and teenagers staring entranced at a glowing orb

Columns | Scaring Children

The Mothers and Their Daughters; The Leavers and the Stayers

I love to be a leaver. To be the one that steps out into the unknown, even as I am terrified.

May 05, 2021

Cover Photo: five orange-brown pots with green leafy plants growing out of them, on the stems are multicolored pills instead of blooms

Columns | Better Living Through Chemistry

Me, My Father, and Our Pills

It no longer seemed as important to control the sequence of steps inside a round-bottomed flask as it was to look at my life and build a future worth living.

May 04, 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: A lively, lush spring/summer park scene depicting people walking dogs, playing with their children, tossing a frisbee, feeding pigeons, sitting on benches and on the grass

Catapult | Poetry

On Some Saturday, After All of This

there is little room for sourness, / little room for anything other than a vibrating joy

May 11, 2021

Cover Photo: An image of a woman in park with tree surrounding her

Catapult | Poetry

Universe With No Fictional Films

I was afraid of being kidnapped.

Kristen Steenbeeke

May 06, 2021

Cover Photo: photograph of a painting depicting a starry field in shades of yellow, green, and blue, above an abstract, large feathery pale blue body that could be ocean waves

Catapult | Poetry

Even When Looking Up, He Thinks He Is Above the Stars

The world was a changed thing / a variant of its former self, and you were / A new ripple in the miles-deep pool of time, / that one breath strumming the tender / Chords of the system.

Camonghne L Felix

Apr 21, 2021

Fiction

Cover Photo: In this gif, we see colorful cochina shells climbing out of the sand after a wave has swept over them. The shells are purple, orange, and white, and the sand is a deep brown, shiny from the water.

Fiction | Short Story

Searching La-La Land

La-la land, she called it, that place her daughter went that she would never go. 

Roseanne Pereira

May 07, 2021

Cover Photo: A beautiful illustration of a sun setting as waves of pink and orange meander across a sky with clouds and seagulls flying and an ocean of different blues and the shadow of the protagonist's mother is cast against the ocean as the protagonist stands on the shore and looks out

Fiction | Short Story

Blue

My mother isn’t dead. I know this the way I know that squares are also rectangles, and that the sun is also a star.

Kristen Sahaana Surya

Apr 30, 2021

Cover Photo: An illustration of many grubby hands fighting over money and candy and a Ferrero Rocher chocolate

Fiction | Short Story

Dead Jasmine

On the anniversary of his death, I put a stem of jasmine in a glass vase on the windowsill. The flower’s fragrance a bridge between this world and the next.

Abbigail Rosewood

Apr 23, 2021