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Craft Talk with Shze Hui Tjoa
On Trusting Your Instincts as an Experimental Writer: A Craft Talk by Shze Hui Tjoa Last summer, a friend and I were taking a road trip...
Jun 23, 20258 min read
Young Adult Fiction by Eric St. Pierre
The Girl by the Window (1893), Edvard Munch The Night I Remembered How To Fly I have to do it. I have to do it right. I have to do it...
Jun 16, 20258 min read
Poetry by Brendan Bense
Exotic Garden (1954), Kurt Seligmann Holy is Another Kind of Lonely Make of pain what you will, the kid in me will say it’s all for show....
Jun 9, 20251 min read
Book Review: ‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé
‘Ignore the Bleeding’: A Review of Okwudili Nebeolisa’s Terminal Maladies by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé Nebeolisa, in this debut poetry...
Jun 3, 20256 min read
Fiction by Marlana Botnick Fireman
TV sets in Store Window (2001/2006), Zoe Leonard Ready Rentals I have my own money, and that basically makes me a grownup. Mom said I...
May 27, 202519 min read
About the Work: Christian Paulisich
About the Work: Christian Paulisich In our “About the Work” series, SER editors ask recent contributors for insight into their writing...
May 20, 20252 min read
An Interview with Cleo Qian
An Interview with Cleo Qian Li Zhuang The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go explore the...
May 16, 20259 min read
Two Poems by Adam Tavel
The Moon at Night (1890), George Inness Full Moon Effect Come on, Joaquin, I said to the horses, not knowing what else to say, the ...
May 7, 20252 min read
Book Review: ‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks
‘Dreaming of the Possibilities’: A Review of Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks by Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé Ajibola Tolase’s 2000 Blacks...
May 2, 20256 min read
Young Adult Fiction by Yvette Adams
Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry (Uso, shidarezakura), from an untitled series of flowers and birds (1834), Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 Rifka...
Apr 25, 202510 min read
An Interview with Larysa Myers
An Interview with Larysa Myers Haley Laningham See more of Larysa Myers’s work here . The suite of Larysa Myers’s work we have taken for...
Apr 7, 20257 min read
About the Work: Stephanie Early Green
About the Work: Stephanie Early Green In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight...
Apr 4, 20252 min read
Craft Talk with Kevin Prufer
Sentimentality & Dogma : A Craft Talk by Kevin Prufer Exotic garden (1954), Kurt Seligmann Many years ago, I was asked to give a short...
Mar 17, 20254 min read
Nonfiction by Ben Nickol
Landscape at L’Estaque (1906), Georges Braque They Can Touch, They Can Name I play a game with my children. They sit in the grass with...
Mar 7, 20255 min read
Book Review: A Review of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s The Parachutist
A Review of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s The Parachutist By Natalie Tombasco As I write this review, it is Inauguration Day in America. A focal...
Feb 28, 20254 min read
Craft Essay by Melissa Ostrom
Pond in the Woods ( 1862 ), Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña This Must Be the Place I live in the woods, and the trees in these parts...
Feb 13, 20254 min read
An Interview with David Greenspan
An Interview with David Greenspan Emilio Carrero David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence (Driftwood Press) and...
Feb 13, 202510 min read
Poetry by H Pearson
Ice (4) (1989), Gerhard Richter Actually, Transition is Not Death Look. It does not snow in June In North Carolina. But there was ice and...
Feb 7, 20251 min read
About the Work: Kate Pyontek
About the Work: Kate Pyontek In our “About the Work” series, Olga Mexina and Tom Sokolowski ask recent contributors for insight into...
Jan 31, 20252 min read
Book Review: The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
A Review of Tananarive Due's T he Wishing Pool and Other Stories By Ezekiel Greenwood For many readers, horror is at once an escape from...
Jan 24, 20254 min read
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