Interviews
On “Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl”: A Conversation with Jeannie Vanasco
Content warning: mentions of sexual assault I first met Jeannie Vanasco in the fall of 2016, about a year before...
Conversation & Creation: Four Fiction Authors on their COVID-Era Writing Process
On a Sunday afternoon in September, I find myself with a precious thing: several hours of uninterrupted time to write....
The Independent Bookstore as a Community: A Conversation with Old Town Books’ Jen Cheng
image via @oldtownbooks on Instagram Even before the global pandemic—a phrase that still sounds almost unreal to utter—supporting independent bookstores...
Litany for the Displaced
“What does it mean to be like a rhizome? It means to be without roots, a deserted plant drifting in...
Review and Interview: Alison Evans on Science Fiction and Gender Identity in “Ida”
Alison Evans’s novel Ida has been shortlisted for the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for best young adult novel, and...
Speaking with Poetry Judge Eileen Myles
As our submission period wrap up & we review submissions for our contest period, our genre editors Below, Poetry Editor E....
Speaking With Artist Mojdeh Rezaeipour on “Belonging”
By Holly Mason Belonging, Mojdeh Rezaeipour’s solo show at Arlington Arts Center, is on exhibit through December 16th. She will be participating...
Spill Some Tea… with So to Speak! Interview with our Editor-in-Chief
Watch the inaugural interview, from our new video series “Spill Some Tea… with So to Speak!” Our first guest is our...
An Interview with Tethered by Letters CEO Dani Hedlund
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Tethered by Letters’ founder and CEO, Dani Hedlund. Dani discussed the inception of Tethered by...