Poetry: Illusions clothe by Eli Goldblatt
To cut thru things around us—this gentle
surgery always at hand, incited by scent or red
scarf or blue rough hand towel
Creative Nonfiction: Kelp Forest by Anna Gates Ha
The satisfaction in the pop. Of ripping something open, all the inside air escaping.
Flash Fiction: Fruit by Lisa Bass
Ira Glass sighed, like he wanted to heal the cracks, like he wanted to keep what is fractured within us whole.
The Short of It: An Interview with Siân Griffiths by Jeffrey Condran
I am more interested in the small, seemingly inconsequential, everyday love we can feel in person-to-person interactions, even with relative strangers.
About Your Writing: Your Bicycle
As much as many of us are afraid of changing, the most important events of our lives are always around a great change—getting married, having a baby, the death of a loved one.
Creative Nonfiction: A Black Mama’s Breathwork, or, the First Time I Had “The Talk” with My Daughter by DW McKinney
“People are marching in the street. They’re angry. [She asked why people were angry.] Some people out there hate Mama’s skin.”
Fiction: The Planner by Paul Jaskunas
I turned forty and decided I needed a plan. If I didn’t have one, I’d live and live without getting ready. That’s just how I am. So the day after […]
The Taste: July 28, 2020
Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories are a mite depressing Scary books that doomed millennials as kids Crime fiction is complicit in police violence A new story, “Legal Salvage,” at Future Tense […]
Associate CNF Editor Wanted!
We’re growing again, and we need another associate creative nonfiction editor! Candidates should have some familiarity with Submittable (although not required), the flexibility to read and adjudicate an increasing volume […]
Poetry: thirty two by Aiden Garabed Farrell
forests are a series of iterations / with slight variation / casting shadows on / what they have already said
