In the first installment of this three-part column, Eva Recinos explores how we can get out of our own heads and into a space where we can submit work
“I’m writing about my relationship with the land, and I need to get from sorrow to debt to gratitude.”
Are you a bilingual writer? Try this prompt from Catapult instructor and poet Chen Chen.
I want any novel I write to be full of darlings. If possible, all darlings.
My desk has to hold all the different versions of me, the good days and the bad. So far, it has.
By necessity, my workspace must be extremely versatile (much more versatile than my boudoir life I might add)
If it’s your first time taking a workshop or working with an editor, here are some terms you might come across.
If you’re starting a new personal essay or you’re working on a memoir, try this writing exercise shared by our instructor Brian Gresko.
Explore your scene writing or begin a flash fiction piece with this prompt from Catapult instructor Christine Sneed.
One day we will clean it all up and fix ourselves.