Feb 15, 2019
Deadline extended: Intern with our books team in NYC!
Apply to be a full-time publishing intern with Catapult and Soft Skull Press in New York for Spring/Summer 2019
Apply to be a full-time publishing intern with Catapult and Soft Skull Press in New York for Spring/Summer 2019
Catapult contributor Joe Wadlington tells the tale of publishing his first short story, "Marisa, the Pitch Pine"
This is Catapult's literary pet of the month column. Stay tuned each month for new bookish animal friends!
This is Catapult's literary pet of the month column. Stay tuned each month for new bookish animal friends!
“I love creating situations that will surprise the character and force them to make difficult choices.”
The Catapult team recommends books by Sheila Heti, Lisa Locascio, Patricia Smith, and more.
A reflection on the holidays through the lens of a split family interfaith home
“I don’t feel fear when I write about the abuse; I just feel that the writing is necessary.”
They say “Never meet your heroes”, but it makes for a great story.
“I didn't have a lot of connections when I started writing, but I’d spent a lot of time making sure I had something to say and could say it well.”
In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Catapult interns share their experiences with communal writing.
This week we’re reading books by Masha Gessen, Carmen Maria Machado, CAConrad, and more.
Meet Amanda Woytus, a Catapult Writing Program alumna & a podcast host for women whose futures are yet to be written.
Absorb everything. Write most of it down. If it's still magic after you finish, cut until all that is left are the words you want.
The Catapult staff recommends fiction, poetry, essays, films, manga, and more.
“Non-existence is a reasonably pleasant state, and if you’re going to use language to conjure people out of that reasonably pleasant non-existence and on to the terrifying page, you owe them your soul."
“Hoping if these days feel dark to you (as they often do to me), there are also sparks and blazes and fragments of light to stay with you.”
The books we’re reading aloud, reading to ourselves, and planning to read next.
The debut novel NYLON called “gorgeously written.”
