
Category: Craft
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...
Read MoreGhost 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...
Read MorePatch
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...
Read MoreLute
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.
Read MoreThree 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...
Read MoreNotes 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...
Read MorePip 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreJosh 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
Read MoreStacey 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.
Read MoreKerry 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
Read MoreOn 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.”
Read More8 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...
Read MoreWriting 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.
Read More5 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,...
Read MorePHONE 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.
Read MoreLangston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”
by Adam Robinson | Feb 1, 2017 | Poetry
Excerpt from Langston Hughes O, let America be America again – The land that never has been...
Read MoreGoing to Work with Leesa Cross-Smith
by Bud Smith | Jan 4, 2017 | Real Pants, Work Safe or Die Trying
Leesa Cross-Smith writes really dope stuff that makes me nostalgic about my hometown, and about...
Read MoreYesterday Was Boring, Who Knows About Today
by Bud Smith | Oct 25, 2016 | Work Safe or Die Trying
Yesterday Was Boring, Who Knows About Today I work in an oil refinery, where I’m...
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Real Pants
Good hair, crooked gait