WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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The summer I turned fourteen, my best friend Katie was in love with the chiseled lifeguard who presided over her community pool from his chair high up in the heavens.…
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When I was ten years old I tried to teach myself to speak and write Cantonese, using an old Chinese schoolbook I had found in the closet. At that age,…
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I have a bad habit that I’m not going to fix. When I drop popcorn on my lap, I eat it, as though my folded knees are a continuation of…
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(Far out in the ocean the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass.) The man and his mermaid stand…
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Photo Credit: Nikki Mumolo 15 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days: waking We do side jobs to make daycare & rent like your chicken gig at the island music…
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In a shaft of morning light, my daughter discovers an eddy of dust motes. Those she says, pointing to what without the sun would be unseen. She runs through them…
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At the beginning of the summer I made a pact with my nine-year-old son: We would spend his non-camp days hiking, searching for waterfalls hidden in the woods and parks…
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This isn’t happening. I quickly folded up the letter I was handed minutes ago by my best friend on the number 5 bus on our way to school. Tel Aviv,…
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Hila Ratzabi was selected by Adrienne Rich as a recipient of a National Writers Union Poetry Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of…
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When the World Breaks Open by Seema Reza Red Hen Press, 2016 240 pages – Red Hen / Amazon There are long tones of loneliness, self-discovery, and memory in Seema Reza’s…
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ConversationCraftFictionInterviewLiterature“A certain shared insanity”: A Conversation With Mike Heppner
“Short stories are gems. Novels, however,” according to one of my favorite creative writing teachers, “are big bags.” Mike Heppner’s work both affirms and challenges this judgement. For while Mike’s…
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Nestuary by Molly Sutton Kiefer Ricochet Editions, 2014 97 pages – Nestuary / Amazon Nestuary, Molly Sutton Kiefer’s first full-length lyric essay, is the story of her rites of passage into motherhood…