Catapult Instructors
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
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.
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.
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.
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. […]
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 […]
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)
“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.)
Finding heartbeats, seeking community, and troubling how we view the world
An interview with poet and classes instructor Ben Purkert