Catapult Instructors
“The only obligation I felt was to the characters…”
An interview with Classes instructor Fatima Farheen Mirza, the New York Times bestselling author of A PLACE FOR US, at Electric Literature
“At times Black womanhood feels fantastic.”
Read an interview with classes instructor Wayétu Moore about new novel SHE WOULD BE KING
The seed that started IF YOU LEAVE ME
Classes instructors Naima Coster and Crystal Hana Kim discuss Crystal’s debut novel, IF YOU LEAVE ME
“I wanted to write a girl’s spiritual quest story that was transgressive and wild and crazy and brave.”
Classes instructors Rachel Lyon and Blair Hurley discuss Blair’s debut novel, THE DEVOTED
An Interview with Reductress
Catapult instructor Elissa Bassist chats with the founders and editor-at-large of “the one and only fake women’s news magazine”
Karen Bender’s Patented Ten Commandments for Becoming a Writer
Karen shares practical, easy-to-implement steps to become a writer.
FLYING COUCH: A Family Postscript
Amy KurzweilAuthor, Flying Couch How should we confront the past? How should we think about our personal, familial or cultural histories, particularly their darkest moments? As I see it, the way each individual deals with history is unique, but falls along a spectrum. On one end, we have people who would rather not think about […]
Don’t Write Alone Weekend Recap
Writing is, at its most basic level, the desire to connect. Our first Don’t Write Alone weekend was a celebration of that fact.
TinyLetter of the Month: Laura Goode, “Rooting for Your Rebirth”
“We live in a sequence of ten thousand birth stories. The best we can do is keep getting born.”
Hanging Out in Other People’s Heads: An Interview with Catapult Instructor Shelly Oria
“As a writer you get to know the characters so much better—their quirks and fears, the wirings and miswirings of their psyche—and it can be so much fun, and at times such an escape from whatever is going on in your own mind.”