Catapult

Cover Photo: Shing Yin Khor

Column | Bad Kimchi

The Love of Korean Cooking I Share With My White Mother

In her illness, Korean food was all my Polish-American mom from Jersey wanted to eat. It was all that she could bear.

Sep 19, 2018

Cover Photo: image via ant_art/iStock

People | Bodies

What Bird Watching Gave Me After My Miscarriage

It was satisfying to see those robins, sparrows, and starlings, because they were still with us. They had stayed.

Sep 19, 2018

Cover Photo: Photography courtesy of the author

People | Generations

My Grandfather Helps Me Find Myself, Even Though He's Gone

My family isn’t religious, but we have a saying that we do believe in my grandfather. And an essay he wrote about me reminds me to believe in myself.

Sep 18, 2018

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Arif Anwar, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Writing the Novel 101, Novel, Workshop

Online | Novel | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Writing the Novel 101

Catapult online classes: Tabitha Blankenbiller, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing Timeless Pop Culture Essays, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing Timeless Pop Culture Essays

Tabitha Blankenbiller

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: Wayétu Moore, 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

Wayétu Moore & Wayétu Moore

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

Online | Novel | Workshop

The Online Novel Generator: Twelve Weeks to a Full Draft

Catapult online classes: Elisa Wouk Almino, 6-Week Online Workshop: Introduction to Writing in Translation, Open-Genre, Workshop

Online | Open-Genre | Workshop

6-Week Online Workshop: Introduction to Writing in Translation

Elisa Wouk Almino

Catapult online classes: Naima Coster, 4-Week Online Fiction Bootcamp: Creating Compelling Characters, Fiction, Bootcamp

Online | Fiction | Bootcamp

4-Week Online Fiction Bootcamp: Creating Compelling Characters

Catapult online classes: Patty Yumi Cottrell, 6-Week Online Advanced Fiction Workshop, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Advanced Fiction Workshop

Patty Yumi Cottrell

People

Cover Photo: Why I Needed to See the Heart of Padre Pio by Nina St. Pierre

People | Relationships

Why I Needed to See the Heart of Padre Pio

An obsession with a Catholic saint and his relics made me think about the pieces of myself I had offered up to others.

Nina St. Pierre

Sep 13, 2018

Cover Photo: Wendy Xu

The Place We Once Called Home: A Comic

How do you mourn someone who is still alive, who might as well be a stranger now?

Sep 12, 2018

Cover Photo: Courtesy of @littlespottedfawn on Instagram

People | Bodies

I Stopped Dyeing My Gray Hair as an Act of Resistance

Beauty and its pursuit can be art, a delight, a terrific party. But a party you must attend every day isn’t a party at all. It’s an unpaid job.

Sep 06, 2018

Culture

Cover Photo: Luis Gosalbez via Flickr

When Your Family Wants You To Be “All Boy”

Cover Photo: Courtesy of Gibraltar Productions

How Truthful Depictions of Suicidal Ideation Help Me Resist My Own

Cover Photo: small smiles via iStock

Is the Green You See, the Green I See?

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

New from Catapult Books

Patient care 3dcvr

Catapult | autobiography | memoir | nonfiction | health | medicine

Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room by Paul Seward, MD

The reservoir tapes 3dcvr

Catapult | fiction

The Reservoir Tapes by Jon McGregor

All you can ever know 3dcvr

Catapult | memoir

All You Can Ever Know (Pre-order) by Nicole Chung

Cove 3dcvr

Catapult | novel

Cove by Cynan Jones

The life to come 3dcvr

Catapult | novel

The Life to Come: A Novel by Michelle de Kretser

Pen america best debut short stories 2018 3dcvr

Catapult | anthology

PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018

Tiny crimes 3dcvr

Catapult | short stories | black balloon | illustrated

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

The runaway species 3dcvr

Catapult | nonfiction | social science

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt

Places

Cover Photo: Deana in eastern Ghouta. Photo provided by the author.

‘I Don’t Have to Tell You I’m Scared’: Inside One Syrian Family’s Displacement

“I felt as if the world was coming to an end.”

Sep 17, 2018

Cover Photo: Photography courtesy of the author

Places | On The Road

On the Haunting Beauty of Roadside Crosses in New Mexico

The roadside cross is a jarring balance of the emotional poles, internal and external, surely an action by and for the remaining soul—not the one who has departed.

Sep 11, 2018

Cover Photo: photo courtesy of the author

Places | On The Road

Finding Faith Beyond God on the Camino de Santiago

For me, loss of faith was hollowing. Can you believe in miracles without believing in God?

Andrea Ruggirello

Sep 10, 2018

On Writing

Cover Photo: Photograph by Annie Spratt

Don’t Submit. Pitch.

Cover Photo: Ceramics & photography by William Sulit

The Tides of Success: A Two-Artist Marriage Confessional

Cover Photo: photo of the author / skincare products photographed by Charisse Kenion via unsplash

Portrait of the Author as a Woman with Adult Acne

Stacie Williams

Fiction

Cover Photo: The Dead and Other Unchosen Things by Andra Nicolescu

Fiction | Short Story

The Dead and Other Unchosen Things

We only used this table for special occasions, for Christmas and New Year’s and birthdays. And for the dead.

Andra Nicolescu

Sep 14, 2018

Cover Photo: Art by Isabelle Laureta for Catapult

Fiction | Short Story

Mae and Me

The two years after Daniel’s disappearance felt like a decade. My colleagues and students couldn’t decide whether to treat me like a widow or divorcée. Mae treated me like neither.

Anna Vangala Jones

Sep 07, 2018

Cover Photo: Adobe Stock

Fiction | Short Story

Dusty Secrets and Sleights of Hand

She whispered his words, trying to rekindle the magical spell Hubert had placed over her mother that day. Ruth hated him for doing what she couldn’t. He left.

Aug 31, 2018