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DON’T WRITE ALONE

At Catapult, we believe there’s a better—or at least less lonely—way to write. Here you’ll find writing resources, advice, job and fellowship opportunities, prompts and craft talk, and more.

Conversations

Cover Photo: a photograph of author Ye Chun against a backdrop of trees with the image of her book, HAO, inset on the right

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

“Through writing this book, I’ve come to decide that I’m no longer a foreigner in this land”: A Conversation with Ye Chun

“Although my main characters find themselves in difficult circumstances, they are not passive. They resist, confront, and sometimes arrive at moments of transcendence.”

Sep 07, 2021

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

A Conversation With ‘Best Debut Short Stories 2021’ Author Stanley Patrick Stocker

“Good things happen when you keep at it.”

Sep 08, 2021

Cover Photo: photograph of the author, José Vadi, next to a superimposed image of his new book, INTER STATE

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

“If you don’t tell the story someone else might, and they’ll change the facts”: José Vadi and Mensah Demary in Conversation

Sep 14, 2021

Free Write

Cover Photo: We see a photograph of two hands shaking against a mellow yellow background. The hands look as if they might be older men and one hand is a few tones paler than the other. This photograph is showed three times in a row and the wrists connect at the end of the picture, as if part of a hand-shaking rope

Let Translation Guide You Into Writing

Poupeh Missaghi

Cover Photo: In this photograph, we are looking into a small kitchen: pushed up against a fridge, we see an old oven, whose stovetop balances a shiny pot and kettle. There are towels and rags and old plastic bags hung from the oven's handles and scattered across the floor. A butter-yellow door opens on the right of the photo, mirroring a yellow door opening to a different room behind the kitchen. The light coming in through the windows is also butter-yellow.

Let’s Talk About Imagery

Cover Photo: This image has crumpled paper in the background and the cover of the book in the corner, which reads "Letter to a Young Poet"

Remember, You Are in Conversation

Where We Write

Cover Photo: photograph of a long light brown bathroom counter with a laptop, headphones, books, coffee mug, beauty products, and jewelry perched on top

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Kendra James Writes

After a month of writing in the passenger seat of my Honda Fit, I said “fuck it” and started writing in the bathroom.

Jul 07, 2021

Cover Photo: view through an office window out into a wooden-fenced backyard filled with bushes, flowers and flowering trees, a table and red chairs, and a wooden bench

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Jami Attenberg Writes

Only now does my office feel like my home again. Only now does my body feel like my home again.

Aug 17, 2021

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of the author

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Manjula Martin Writes

The room is my Narnia wardrobe, my Woolfian fantasy writ real, a masc womb of creative independence. I call the room The Lair because who wouldn’t.

Sep 15, 2021

fiction | Catapult

Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers

nonfiction | Catapult

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

nonfiction | Catapult

Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum

Catapult | anthology

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

Reference | Criticism | Creative Writing | Catapult

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