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DON’T WRITE ALONE

At Catapult, we believe there’s a better—or at least less lonely—way to write. Here you’ll find writing resources, advice, job and fellowship opportunities, prompts and craft talk, and more.

Conversations

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett; book cover via HMH

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

“See what happens if you say yes”: A Conversation with Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett

“I think that that’s more interesting than saying no.”

Allisen Hae Ji Lichtenstein

Jul 08, 2021

Cover Photo: A collage by Johnny Damm made from a vintage comic book. The collage is of a white man in a purple suit floating in the air above a field of green. He appears to be jumping backwards, facing up toward the sky with lines coming from his body representing movement.

Don’t Write Alone | Columns

The Poetry of Comics: A Conversation With Johnny Damm, Author of ‘The Science of Things Familiar’

“I’m a writer who uses a scanner, an X-Acto knife, and the library.”

Jul 12, 2021

Don’t Write Alone | Columns

Putting Your Ear to the Tracks: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith

Jessica Wilbanks asks Leesa Cross-Smith about the craft choices at work in her short story, “Whiskey & Ribbons,” which later became a novel.

Jessica Wilbanks

Jul 22, 2021

Free Write

Cover Photo: In this photograph, we are looking down on the florescent aisles of a grocery store. We see rows of brightly colored food aisles and red Chinese tomato lights hanging down against a bright, sky blue wall at the end of the store.

Setting and Dialogue Exercise

Christine Sneed

Cover Photo: In this photograph, we see a mural painted on a dirty white wall. The mural was spray painted in blues, reds, and whites, and portrays a man who is baring his teeth and putting his hands up to his face, as if in pain.

The Pain Scale Exercise

Madeleine Watts

Cover Photo: This image has crumpled paper in the background and the cover of the book in the corner, which reads "Letter to a Young Poet"

Remember, You Are in Conversation

Where We Write

Cover Photo: a glass-top table with an iMac and keyboard, candles and framed photos on either side

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Terese Marie Mailhot Writes

“After the success of my first book, I got caught up with ambition and worked to produce. Writing shouldn’t really be like that.”

Terese Marie Mailhot

Jun 07, 2021

Cover Photo: photograph of a long light brown bathroom counter with a laptop, headphones, books, coffee mug, beauty products, and jewelry perched on top

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Kendra James Writes

After a month of writing in the passenger seat of my Honda Fit, I said “fuck it” and started writing in the bathroom.

Jul 07, 2021

Cover Photo: This photograph shows the author's bedroom writing set up: a large pillow, with her laptop and notebooks sitting in front of it on the bed. To the right, we see a bookshelf and an adjustable lamp.

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Jami Nakamura Lin Writes

That’s what my own process of writing, and living, is like: trying to conserve, redirect, and restore my energy in the most fruitful way.

Jami Nakamura Lin

Jul 15, 2021

Catapult | fiction

Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers

Catapult | nonfiction

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

anthology | Catapult

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

Catapult | nonfiction

Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison