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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

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

A Conversation with ‘Best Debut Short Stories 2021’ Author Lindsay Ferguson

“Writing at a slow pace—or along the contours of what life personally looks like for you—is still writing.”

Oct 14, 2021

Cover Photo: This header is a picture of the author Julian K. Jarboe next to the cover of their book, EVERYONE ON THE MOON. In the center, we see a stamp that reads "writers who read," which is being written onto a notebook. The other hand of this writer holds a pair of glasses.

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

Writers Who Read: A Conversation on Body Horror with Julian K. Jarboe

“If you’re interested in responding to difference and change in a fantastic way, body horror fiction can be a great way to push through the stereotypical or conventional roles of monstrosity.”

Gabrielle Bellot

Oct 14, 2021

Don’t Write Alone | Interviews

A Conversation with ‘Best Debut Short Stories 2021 Author’ Heather Aruffo

“I think medical terminology can be incredibly beautiful and I love integrating it into my work.”

Oct 20, 2021

Free Write

Cover Photo: The author shares a scan of his SEPTA key and has left notes about what it reminds him of.

Writing the Autobiography of Your Stuff

Krys Malcolm Belc

Cover Photo: This picture shows someone holding up to a magnifying glass filled with smoke. The smoke becomes pink and magical looking through the magnifying glass.

Make it Sharper, Make it Stranger

Cover Photo: This image is a photograph of a hand, turned sidewise so it looks like the thumb meeting the fingers is a face. There are googly eyes stuck to the hand above its "mouth."

Turning Reality into Comedy

Where We Write

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a laptop poised on top of books above a messy desk with a green lamp that casts a warm yellow glow

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where José Vadi Writes

“I blame my first studio apartment for my habit of writing in kitchens.”

Sep 29, 2021

Cover Photo: The photograph shows the author's white cat cuddled next to the author's laptop, both of which sit atop of white lambskin rug. A baby crib can be seen at the left edge of the photo and a baby head pillow on the right.

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Rae Nudson Writes

I’m afraid I have always been like this: always doing slightly more than I can handle, stealing moments to get it all done.

Oct 05, 2021

Cover Photo: A dining table on which sit a laptop, a notebook, magazines (Condé Nast Traveler and The New Yorker), a book (The Best American Travel Writing 2021), and a glass of wine (grüner veltliner)

Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write

Where Matt Ortile Writes

I try to be agnostic about where I write; I never have an excuse to not.

Oct 18, 2021

Catapult | nonfiction

Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum

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

Catapult | anthology

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

Catapult | Creative Writing | Criticism | Reference

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