Tag: Issue 9

  • Loving Our Work and Letting it Go

    One morning many years ago, I phoned a writer friend and asked if she would take a look at a manuscript I’d recently completed, one that I was particularly fond of. I guess you could call it a crush. Yes, I had a crush on my manuscript. (If you’re a writer, you probably know how…

  • Rebecca McClanahan

    Rebecca McClanahan is the author of ten books, most recently The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change and a revised edition of Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively, which has sold over 40,000 copies and is used as a text in many writing programs. Her work has appeared…

  • Interview with Mary Laura Philpott: Author of I Miss You When I Blink

    Mary Laura Philpott: Author of I Miss You When I Blink (released April 1, 2019) Interview by Karin Pendley Koser   I had a lovely chat with writer and sometime illustrator Mary Laura Philpott, a week or so before her new memoir-in-essays book, I Miss You When I Blink, debuted April 1 in Nashville and…

  • Karin Pendley Koser

  • Interview with author Patti Callahan

      Personal Interview with author Patti Callahan, author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis (historical fiction) and 13 contemporary fiction novels by Karin Pendley Koser QU MFA 2019   [Full disclosure: Patti and I have known each other casually for about ten years but aren’t in regular touch due to our full lives and physical distance after…

  • Photograph in which children are throwing rice at your wedding dress

    Maybe they are paper airplanes, or goosenecks made from linen napkins, clappers taken from every bell within fifty miles. I imagine that, when you gathered your train, to get into the car, streamered with tin cans that rattled newlywed the whole way home, grains fell from the hand-stitched fabric with a hush. I feed you…

  • Ordinary Psalm With Severe Neglect

    I was working day shift at the County Shelter, 102 degrees in the tattered shade of that street and this kid, maybe 5 or 6, had been scrubbed clean, her hair oiled for lice. Her teeth rotted brown   from sucking juice bottles to sleep, she was busy climbing over the dirty couch in the…

  • 27 Saras

    after Wayne Holloway-Smith   Sara without the H (the princess is not Jewish but Arabian), Sara Kookaburra in the old gum tree, Sara who struggled to sharpen B+s into As, Sara who sees double, Sara under wraps, Sara in the brook (her natural habitat), Fire Hen Triple Gemini Sara. Skeleton crew Sara, Sara Solo, Sara…

  • Toxic

    INT. BUNKER – LIVING SPACE – ARMCHAIR – DAY A woman’s face. Dry. Brittle. Slack and distorted in death. This was once FAY, 30s. Now it’s just a corpse. ALICE (V.O.) It was two days after my 16th birthday when my mother died. ALICE, 16, scrawny yet hopeful, with all the whimsy of her fairy…