Zest!

Memories of Malasada

Kelsey Costa -
I followed my parents’ lead for the spoken and unspoken commands of mass. My leather shoes pinched my toes with every movement, my velvet...

Field Notes

The Long Run

Amber Wong -
“Clean air, clean water, open spaces – these should once again be the birthright of every American.” ~ President Richard M. Nixon (R), 1970...

Generations

Dinner Party

Daphne Biener -
“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

In Sickness and In Health

The Art of Letting Go

Rosie Sultan -
I followed our moving van over Boston's Tobin Bridge from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I was newly divorced; my four-year-old boy was belted into his car...

Reviews

Some Girls Have All the Luck, Some Girls Have All the Pain

Anna Mantzaris -
The week I read Emily May’s essay collection Some Girls, I visit the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit “Art Comes From Art” at the Legion of...

The Sounding Board

Navalny, Poetry, and Truth

Linda Strange -
On the morning I heard that the Russian political activist, Alexei Navalny, had died in a Siberian prison, I was mournful but not surprised. “So...

Essay & Memoir

When Another Brick Clicks Into Place

Quintin Collins -
Summer sun compressed the neighborhood into a stillness between noon and 3 p.m., when I had to be home so that my father could...

My First Breath of America

Dr. Jamal Ali Hussein -

Slick

Emma Weiss -

Some Girls Have All the Luck, Some Girls Have All the Pain

Anna Mantzaris -

What We Collect

Krista Jahnke -

Fiction

The Essentials

Anita Harag -
Translated from Hungarian by Marietta Morry and Walter Burgess. We go to look at apartments where we’ll never live together. We look at the kitchen...

Happy Friday

Abhijith Ravinutala -

Night Flight to L.A.

Kent Shell -

Twinning

Jeff Hazlett -

Not Ready Yet

William Cass -

Poetry

Cicero, IL

Elisabeth Murawski -
It takes years to fill in the blanks: a large bird or something worse than a wolf pulling at the sheets. The old man from Vilnius cooing like a pigeon. How...

Night

Denise Bergman -

Carrying Coal

Aaliyah Anderson -

Porch Glider

Susan Rich -

In the Room After Death and Scratch

Kathryn Napier Stull -
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Advice

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading