MFA for ALL Registration is now open for our Spring 2025 semester of MFA for All, with new faculty Matt Bell, ZZ Packer, and Kristen Arnett! MFA for All was born from our desire to create a space where MFA-quality instruction is widely accessible to writers no matter their age, background, location, or financial situation. MFA for All is not a degree-granting program—it is a community-rich online educational experience led by top-notch faculty, free of the significant hurdles of time, … [Read more...] about MFA for All Spring 2025
Matt Bell
ISSUE 62
Porochista Khakpour, “Kingdoms” “Years after it happened, her rapist was trying to get in contact with her. In the same week her dog arrived. Lucy called the local Greyhound Rescue chapter months before. She had filled out an application promising that she would be able to walk it at least three times a day, that she would never let it off a leash, that she would feed it regularly, that she would return it immediately should she no longer be able to act as a capable owner. She had had a … [Read more...] about ISSUE 62
Things American: Writers Remember James Salter
American novelist, story writer, and screenwriter James Salter died on June 19th, leaving behind a body of work that presents a vision of a century in dramatic motion. He was a writer of the quotidian and a craftsman of the first water whose interest in sensory experiences is most evident in his arresting narrative passages. Food, drink, sex, the seemingly impossible beauty of things touched, witnessed, and heard—these are rendered in precise and yet often surprising terms in Salter's work. In … [Read more...] about Things American: Writers Remember James Salter