Catapult Extra
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Grace Oluseyi
“The story had always been about two halves of a couple using each other to get what they want.”
TinyLetter of the Month: Jamila Osman, “Notes from Ramallah”
“Writing these letters is my way of laying siege to the silences that I have learned to harbor.”
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Ben Shattuck
“I like to think of the people I personally know placed in deep history.”
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Angela Ajayi
“I wrote almost euphorically, allowing my memories, my knowledge, and my imagination to meld endlessly, freely.”
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Emily Chammah
“Writing can be a lonely endeavor, and it is wonderful to now be connected to these other emerging writers.”
“Writing that book was traumatic”: Hanif Abdurraqib and Rachel Khong on Writing
Last month on WMFA, a podcast where writers talk writing
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Samuel Clare Knights
“I wanted to write about the experience of my first language, about learning how to ask through hands before words.”
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Jim Cole
“A story comes to me like a match and I’ll write the first draft frantically until it burns out.”
A Conversation with PEN America Best Debut Short Story Author Amber Caron
“I was fascinated by the isolation of musher life, and the loneliness that often accompanies it.”
Break Out the Accordions: DIRT ROAD is here!
James Kelman’s new novel is on sale today, and we have the perfect music to go along with it.