We wanted to spotlight some of the stellar posts we’ve had on Entropy this year. Our most popular features by far are the Where to Submit series, then, our Best of 2018 lists (and our annual Best of __ lists) and our Small Press Interviews. Excluding those features & resources, here is a round-up of the most-read articles, stories & essays at Entropy in 2018 that were published in 2018.
1. What Entropy Editors Want to Publish in 2018 by Entropy Editors (Where to Submit)
2. Funding Libraries Is The Way To Beat ‘Fake News’ by Lisa Eve Cheby (Creative Nonfiction / Politics)
3. Awaiting Trial by Olowogboyega Olumuyiwa (Creative Nonfiction)
4. It Is Always Your Problem by Hannah Cohen (Creative Nonfiction)
5. New Fiction by Nate Lippens: “Vigil” by Nate Lippens (Fiction)
6. Books I Hate (and Also Some I Like): with Samantha Irby by Katharine Coldiron (Interview)
7. WOVEN: To Ensure He Is Far Away by Emily Van Duyne (Creative Nonfiction)
8. Where to Begin: A Literacy Narrative by Emily O’Neill (Creative Nonfiction)
9. Entropy’s Guide to #AWP18 by Entropy (Current Events)
10. New Geographies: Navigating the Uncertainty Between a First and Second Book by Aaron Brown (Creative Nonfiction)
11. WOVEN: As They Walk Through the Door by Celeste Hamilton Dennis (Creative Nonfiction)
12. On Junot Díaz and the Literati by Roberto Carlos Garcia (Creative Nonfiction)
13. Zack De La Rocha: Relating Animal by Adolf Alzuphar (Music)
14. Emotional Engulfment by S.R. Schulz (Creative Nonfiction)
15. Mini-Syllabus: The Apocalypse by Janice Lee (Syllabus)
16. We Are Living Geohell: Author’s Debut Work Takes on Everything That Is Wrong with Everything by Mike Molitch-hou (Book Review)
17. WOVEN: What Happened by Kimberly Latta (Creative Nonfiction)
18. Corpse Logic by Emma Hyche (Creative Nonfiction)
19. My Father’s English: Changing Language, Changing Class by Mindy Haskins Rogers (Creative Nonfiction)
20. Hereditary: Mourning My Mother in Miniature by Nicole Cooley (Creative Nonfiction / Film)
21. How To Make A Million Dollars In The Music Industry by Thomas Park (Music)
22. The Soulmate Place by mj corey (Creative Nonfiction)
23. Literacy Narrative: The Voices We Carry by C.E. Shue (Creative Nonfiction)
24. Dinnerview: Hanif Abdurraqib by Danielle Susi (Food)
25. The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Cutting Off Parts of Your Body by Julian K. Jarboe (Food)
26. Mini-Syllabus: Prose By Poets by Aviya Kushner (Syllabus)
27. How We Grow into Loss by Marissa Layne Johnson (Creative Nonfiction)
28. Natalie Eilbert in Converstion with Vi Khi Nao by Vi Khi Nao (Conversation / Interview)
29. Dan Bustillo and Johanna Hedva in conversation about On Hell (Conversation / Interview)
30. Big Thief – Shark Smile by Mikhal Weiner (Music)
31. A Cannibal Explains Himself To Himself by Will Alexander (Creative Nonfiction)
32. High Elopement Risk by Jessica Mooney (Creative Nonfiction)
33. A Cuban With His Mouth Closed by Justin Jiménez (Creative Nonfiction / Travel)
34. Making Sense8: A Conversation with Aleksandar Hemon by Davis Schneiderman (Conversation / Television)
35. On Weather: Creeping Cedar by Amanda Kramer (Creative Nonfiction)
36. WOVEN: The Day When I Was Seven And I Kept Her Safe by Ari Burford (Creative Nonfiction)
37. Literacy Narrative: Reading Fernando Pessoa by Naomi Washer (Creative Nonfiction)
38. What Does it Mean to Search? Whiteness, Cisness, and the Canon: A (Transgenre) Literacy Narrative by Zef Lisowski (Creative Nonfiction)
39. WOVEN: List of the Affected by Emily Kellogg (Creative Nonfiction)
40. Tell Me Again by Megan Rachuy (Creative Nonfiction)
41. Literacy Narrative: In Search of Dumplings and Dead Poets by Molly Montgomery (Creative Nonfiction)
42. Foster Care: Child Protection by Chris J. Rice (Creative Nonfiction)
43. Body Counting by Taneum Bambrick (Creative Nonfiction / Poetry)
44. The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Hungry Hungry Hormones by Julian K. Jarboe (Food)
45. A Fig in Wintertime by Stephanie McCarter (Creative Nonfiction)
46. The Fools, The Naïve, The Betrayed, The Open Hearted, The Desperate, The Hungry: A Letter to Those Who Knew Anna March by Anonymous (Advice / Letter)
47. Mausoleum by Yolande House (Creative Nonfiction)
48. The Words I Carry by Radia Lahlou (Creative Nonfiction)
49. Session Report: Tales of the Arabian Nights and Continuity by Byron Alexander Campbell (Board Games / Review)
50. Review: Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot by Theodore Van Alst (Book Review)
And, our most popular posts ever, since launching in 2014:
(not including pieces listed above or our Where to Submit / Small Press / Best of Year Lists)