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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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Cover Photo: This header image has a picture of Cheryl Strayed sitting in a chair on the left hand side and a cover of her newest book, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS, on the right hand side.

Don’t Write Alone | Columns

How’s the Writing Going, Cheryl Strayed?

“I love writing. I really do. Even though I often hate it at various points in the process. Learning to accept that has been so important to me.”

Nov 22, 2022

Cover Photo: This header image shows headshots of Kavita Das, Gaiutra Bahadur, and Gabrielle Bellot, along with the book cover of Craft and Conscience

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

The Risks, Realities, and Rewards of Writing About Social Issues

A roundtable with Kavita Das, the author of ‘Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues,’ and contributors Gaiutra Bahadur and Gabrielle Bellot.

Nov 28, 2022

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

Ruben Quesada Introduces Readers to the Expansive World of Latinx Poetics

Ruth Joffre interviews Ruben Quesada on his new book ‘Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry,’ the first anthology devoted to essays exploring the subject from a Latinx perspective.

Nov 29, 2022

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Catapult online classes: Tara Campbell, 12-Week Speculative Fiction Intensive: Revising Reality, Fiction, Intensive

Online | Fiction | Intensive

12-Week Speculative Fiction Intensive: Revising Reality

Photo of Rachel Vorona Cote with the cover of "Too Much"

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

6-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Writing for Public Discourse

Rachel Vorona Cote

Catapult online classes: Jenessa Abrams, 6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Book Reviewing Through a Social & Political Lens, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Book Reviewing Through a Social & Political Lens

Catapult online classes: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Independent Study: Preparing Your MFA Application, Open-Genre, Independent Study

Online | Open-Genre | Independent Study

Independent Study: Preparing Your MFA Application

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

Catapult online classes: Courtney Maum, Independent Study: The Book Deal Toolkit, Publishing, Independent Study

Online | Publishing | Independent Study

Independent Study: The Book Deal Toolkit

Catapult online classes: Rachel Kincaid, 3-Week Nonfiction Seminar: Theory & Practices of Exploratory Writing, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

3-Week Nonfiction Seminar: Theory & Practices of Exploratory Writing

Catapult online classes: Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, 4-Week Translation Workshop: Intro to Japanese Literary Translation, Translation, Fiction, Reading Group

Online | Translation, Fiction | Reading Group

4-Week Translation Workshop: Intro to Japanese Literary Translation

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

Catapult online classes: Cinelle Barnes, Independent Study: Outlines & Visual Aids to Generate or Revise Prose, Fiction, Nonfiction, Independent Study

Online | Fiction, Nonfiction | Independent Study

Independent Study: Outlines & Visual Aids to Generate or Revise Prose

Where We Write

Cover Photo: On the left is a photograph of the writer Kristen Arnett, wearing sunglasses and sitting outside on a balcony in front of a laptop and holding a French bulldog. On the right is the writer Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, who has taken a photograph of herself standing up in a mirror in front of a writing desk.

Kristen Arnett and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Sharing a Writing Space

Kristen Arnett and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Cover Photo: This header image features two photographs cut in half. One shows the deck of the author's house boat and the other a shot of an interior hallway.

Cover Photo: This photograph shows the author's bedroom. The bed is neatly made, a vase of flowers on the bedside table, and a notebook lays on the bedspread. The windows look out onto bright green grass and trees.

As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Writing Prompts

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a person dressed in a ghost sheet standing in the middle of an empty city street.

Don’t Write Alone | Free Write

Writing Ghosts and Why You Want To

Write a scene in which you’re sharing space with a ghost from your memory. It can be memoir or fiction, scary or silly, simple or complex. Just like ghosts themselves.

Oct 03, 2022

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a seagull flying high above the viewer against a bright blue sky with a few wispy clouds. The seagull is positioned in such a way that it almost feels like it's looking down at us.

Don’t Write Alone | Free Write

In an Essay, Let Us Borrow Your Eyeballs—or Anyone Else’s, Really, Even a Bird’s

Meaning is an abstract concept. It needs a container. Concrete details are those vessels, the building blocks, the foundation of a good essay.

Oct 17, 2022

Cover Photo: This black and white image is a production still of 'The Newsroom,' and in it the characters are standing in the middle of a prairie around a television screen sitting on the ground.

Don’t Write Alone | Free Write

Begin to Build the World of Your TV Series

The success of a show often hangs on the writer’s ability to create a compelling sense of place. Use this prompt from classes instructor Alexander Aciman to imagine possibilities for your very own TV series.

Alexander Aciman

Nov 09, 2022

Catapult | fiction

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

Catapult | nonfiction

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

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

Catapult | anthology

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

Catapult | nonfiction

Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum