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Lot

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Feb 20, 2018 | Pocket Finger

This is from Pocket Finger, a collection of stories by Ryan Call, with illustrations by Christy...

Wreckage

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Feb 13, 2018 | Pocket Finger

Welcome to the next installment of Pocket Finger, a collection of seven illustrated stories...

Ghost Bird

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Feb 6, 2018 | Pocket Finger

This is from Pocket Finger, a collection of stories by Ryan Call, with illustrations by Christy...

Patch

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Jan 30, 2018 | Pocket Finger

Welcome to week 3 of Pocket Finger, a collection of seven illustrated stories created by Ryan...

Lute

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Jan 23, 2018 | Pocket Finger

“Lute” is the third installment in the short story / drawing collection POCKET FINGER, by Christy Call and Ryan Call.

Three Sisters

by Ryan Call and Christy Call | Jan 16, 2018 | Pocket Finger

This is the first installment of Pocket Finger, a collection of seven illustrated stories created...

Notes on My Consumption in 2017

by Adam Robinson | Jan 2, 2018 | Craft

Movies Not that anyone asked, but here are my top ten movies, in vague order: Get Out Logan Lucky...

Pip Adam: Hairdressing as Metaphor for Narrative Form

by Jackson Nieuwland | Jun 29, 2017 | Real Pants, Side Hustles

Pip Adam is one of my favourite people in the New Zealand lit community. She is creative, kind, and endlessly enthusiastic.

The Aleatory Abyss

by Evelyn Hampton | Jun 27, 2017 | Primary Sources

An essay about chance operations, spoofing, the election, people who live in malls, Mark’s walk, and trying to teach English composition at a rural community college.

Josh Spilker: Content Manager or Taco Jehovah?

by Jackson Nieuwland | Jun 15, 2017 | Side Hustles

Josh Spilker is a pretty prolific writer himself. His latest novel is called Taco Jehovah. I asked him some questions about his day job

Stacey Teague: Nanny Extraordinaire!

by Jackson Nieuwland | Jun 1, 2017 | Side Hustles

Stacey Teague was one of the first people I met through the online writing scene six years ago AND she happened to live in the same country as me.

Kerry Donovan Brown: Writer/Ranger/Druid

by Jackson Nieuwland | May 18, 2017 | Side Hustles

I decided to start interviewing writers about their non-writing jobs. The first person I talked to was Kerry Donovan Brown

On Kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity

by Adam Robinson | Apr 25, 2017 | Everyday Genius Vault

From the Everyday Genius vault, here’s an essay with the unremarkable sentence, “The result of existing is death.”

8 Notebooks

by Adam Robinson | Apr 8, 2017 | Craft

I cleaned my desk the other day. A couple months ago when I did that, I wrote a bunch of mini...

Writing MOOCs from U of Iowa

by Adam Robinson | Mar 2, 2017 | Craft

The University of Iowa has released a bunch of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) about writing.

5 Poems by Michael Glaviano

by Real Pants | Feb 6, 2017 | Everyday Genius Vault

Michael Glaviano lives in Iowa City. Other poems of his have appeared in PANK, Whiskey Island,...

PHONE CALL

by Adam Robinson | Feb 1, 2017 | Poetry

You, you drive off to face it like a Mark Rothko, smoking one and driving like into a Mark Rothko and it’s enough, then bada-bing, voilà: a story, a culture.