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Catapult Instructors | Interviews
It’s Deeply Lonely to Pretend: A Conversation with Lynn Steger Strong

Svetlana Satchkova interviews Lynn Steger Strong about her new novel, WANT, and what it means to write and parent in the world today

Jul 7, 2020
Catapult Instructors | Interviews
Something that Looks Like a Story: A Conversation with Selena Anderson

In this new monthly column, writer and Catapult instructor Jessica Wilbanks sits down with a diverse range of contemporary writers to take a close look at the craft choices they made while writing a single short story, essay, or poem.

Feb 7, 2020
Catapult Instructors | Interviews
Extending the Break: A Conversation with José Olivarez

In this new monthly column, writer and Catapult instructor Jessica Wilbanks sits down with a diverse range of contemporary writers to take a close look at the craft choices they made while writing a single short story, essay, or poem.

Nov 15, 2019
Catapult Instructors | Interviews
What I Need You to Know: A Conversation with Frances Lefkowitz

In this new monthly column, writer and Catapult instructor Jessica Wilbanks sits down with a diverse range of contemporary writers to take a close look at the craft choices they made while writing a single short story, essay, or poem.

Oct 18, 2019
Catapult Instructors
Remembering Catapult instructor Jade Sharma

On Friday, October 4th, we’re hosting a memorial for Jade at Catapult’s offices (1140 Broadway, Suite 704), from 5:30-7:30pm. If you’d like to say a few words about Jade, share a memory, or read a paragraph from Jade’s debut novel, Problems, please email classes@catapult.co  to sign up in advance.  Jade Sharma died on July 24, 2019. […]

Sep 4, 2019
Catapult Instructors | Advice
Getting to the Truth: The Wonderfully Impossible Task of the Creative Nonfiction Writer

Taylor is teaching an upcoming workshop at Catapult this June on exploring the boundaries of nonfiction. * Imagine the following writing exercise: Write something completely true. Sounds pretty simple, right? Except here’s the tricky part: if you write something false, something that isn’t true—even a single word—all your loved ones will be executed immediately. Considering those rather […]

Apr 23, 2019
Catapult Instructors
Making Modern Love

How Publishing a New York Times Essay Changed My Life

Catapult Instructors | Advice
How To Finish

Three ways of thinking that might help you get the damned novel done, from our beloved 12-Month Novel Generator instructor, Lynn Steger Strong (author of HOLD STILL)

Jan 31, 2019
Catapult Instructors
“So if I am a tender writer… then my poems should be everything that I am.”

Leah Johnson interviews poet and classes instructor Angel Nafis on community, process, and writing in and outside of an MFA. (Even though advice is whack.)

Oct 23, 2018