Nov 27, 2019
The Challenges of Distilling Metaphor into Art: Kim Salt, Catapult Artist for November
“Always meet your deadlines, do good work, and be easy to get along with.”
“It’s a great honor to lay eyes on a writer’s work and help give it a visual identity”: Nicole Caputo on Art, Design, and the First Year of the Catapult Artist Program
“Because Catapult is multifaceted, because our content spans so many subjects, it seemed the Catapult Artist program would really be an extension of what the magazine was already doing.”
Oct 31, 2019
“Self-belief gets you quite far as an illustrator”: Hannah Lock, Catapult Artist for October
“Refrain yourself from throwing things away. Even if you think you’re going nowhere with what you’re creating.”
Oct 30, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author JP Infante
“When you’re a kid you’re not sure if you don’t know something because you haven’t been taught it or because you’re not supposed to know.”
Oct 07, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Kelsey Peterson
“I think, in pursuit of truth, science and religion still have to wrestle with the strictures of human knowledge, error, pride.”
Oct 02, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Jade Jones
“The narration style feels very conversational to me. I liked how second-person really tries to make the reader part of the story as well.”
Sep 30, 2019
“Look at everything!”: Celia Jacobs, Catapult Artist of September
Learning to apply my curiosity wherever it’s needed has made my illustration career more fun and maybe more successful, too.
Sep 30, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Sarah Curry
“I slowly connected the dots that nearly all my friends—no matter what continent we had been on—had experienced some level of sexual violence.”
Sep 27, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Tamiko Beyer
“The themes of social justice, the magic of water, and the power of queer love to create a different world—these are themes that I return to again and again in my writing and my life.”
Sep 25, 2019
“People will always need art in their lives.”: Alexandra Bowman, Catapult Artist for August
“Working for myself is all about balance. Although illustration is my career and passion, I still need to have a life outside of art-making.”
Aug 30, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Doug Henderson
“Some stories just flow out of you and you try to keep up as you write them. This story was not like that.”
Aug 28, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Laura Freudig
“When you feel like you have no power in a relationship, withholding becomes one of the only ways you can maintain the illusion of agency.”
Aug 26, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Erin Singer
“Inspiration came from the stupid pencil jar our family had when I was growing up.”
Aug 22, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author Pingmei Lan
“It started with a voice—the young narrator telling me about her name.”
Aug 15, 2019
A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2019 Author A.B. Young
“For me, I guess fairytales are where I am simultaneously most at home, and most at odds with the world around me.”
Aug 13, 2019
Trust the Process: Linsday Stripling, Catapult Artist of July
I think what I love about illustration is that there are so many ways to challenge myself.
Jul 31, 2019
Make What You Love and You Will Be Found: Sarah Robbins, Catapult Artist for June
“‘Illustrator’ is just the easiest catch-all for many jobs—which again, I’m rather restless so it’s worked out great that I never get bored!”
Jun 28, 2019
Stirring Ideas to Life: Sirin Thada, Catapult Artist for May
By leaving her job as a lawyer and taking a leap of faith to become a full-time illustrator, Sirin Thada says, “I was finally honoring a part of me that had been there all along.”
May 31, 2019
As an artist, “it’s important to make time for friends and sunshine.”: Meryl Rowin, Catapult Artist for April
“In college, I think there was this idea floating around that a real illustrator worked all night—and if they weren’t, they were half ass-ing it. [Now,] I like to give my brain some time to absorb and to rest in equal measure.”
May 03, 2019
Flexibility, Distillation, and Immersion: Ellen Weinstein, Catapult Artist for March
Filling that blank space is a mix of excitement and agony.
Apr 04, 2019
