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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.

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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

Cover Photo: Book cover by Catapult/Photograph by Travis Tanay

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

How to Sit in Companionable Silence: An Interview with Lynn Casteel Harper, Author of ‘On Vanishing’

“We can begin to identify other ways to conceive of dementia apart from terror. The stigma isn’t simply inherent—so it doesn’t have to remain this way.”

Bailey Cook Dailey

Apr 13, 2021

Cover Photo: Book cover by Grand Central Publishing/Photograph by Lou F. Bank

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

Actions Must Have Consequences: An Interview with A. E. Osworth, Author of ‘We Are Watching Eliza Bright’

“I take real issue with the idea of ‘in real life’ versus on the internet. That’s not a distinction that exists. It’s not honest.”

Apr 14, 2021

Free Write

Cover Photo: In this photograph, we are looking down on the florescent aisles of a grocery store. We see rows of brightly colored food aisles and red Chinese tomato lights hanging down against a bright, sky blue wall at the end of the store.

Setting and Dialogue Exercise

Christine Sneed

Cover Photo: In this photograph, we are looking down at a stack of pastel envelopes--white, pink, and yellow--with three polaroids stacked on top. The top image looks out to the ocean beyond a rocky shore. The table the stack of photographs and envelopes is sitting on is dark, worn wood.

A Writing Exercise Using Photographs

Cover Photo: Against a reddish pink background, we see the Chinese character for téng with bandaids covering it slightly on the top right and bottom left

A Writing Prompt for Mandarin Speakers

Where We Write

Cover Photo: photograph of a large wooden dining table with books, a laptop, a dish, a half-full glass, a green lunch tray, and other odds and ends on it; just behind, there's a smaller wooden desk and a small set of storage drawers; behind and to the right there is a small white desk—both desks also have laptops and headphones and various objects on top

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Lydia Kiesling Writes

One day we will clean it all up and fix ourselves.

Apr 05, 2021

Cover Photo: A huge bouquet of flowers on a desk with writing utensils and a whiteboard with notes in erasable marker

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Alanna Bennett Writes

My desk has to hold all the different versions of me, the good days and the bad. So far, it has.

Apr 05, 2021

Cover Photo: a writing desk with a pale wooden top and white legs with an iMac, some rocks and crystals and other objects, and two lamps atop it; before it sits a gray padded swivel chair, a window to the right, with pictures pinned to the white wall

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Ingrid Rojas Contreras Writes

The three Polaroids that hang by my desk are from different parts of the story, but it helps to have them nearby.

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Apr 15, 2021

Catapult | anthology

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

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

Reference | Criticism | Creative Writing | Catapult

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

nonfiction | Catapult

Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum