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New #flashinterview: "I can’t say I had fun writing this story, because it was challenging to find the words to accurately describe this complexity, this frailty." —Tara Isabel Zambrano in conversation with Rebecca Loggia buff.ly/DQICdvH

Closing soon: Our 2025 Dialogue Challenge! We want to read only the dialogue: no tags, no stage directions, no settings—no added context whatsoever. One winner will receive $500 + publication. Deadline: June 1, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Submit your work: craftliterary.com/craft-dialogue…

New #interview: "It’s interesting because I never really considered poetry and prose as two well-defined distinct things. Didn’t the original poets both sing and tell stories?" —Kit Lea Cheang in conversation with sienna liu

New #interview: "Something in the art has to fill in the scene, the character, the mood. Add what is not in the words." —Jesse Lee Kercheval in conversation with Stephen Meisel Read more: craftliterary.com/2025/05/30/int…

New #memoirexcerpt: "Circle of Life guides me to three surviving school structures: Dining Hall, Memorial Hall, Grammar School. But apparitions line their doorways. See them?" —D. A. Navoti, "Residential School Requiem," Excerpt from One Pima Pilgrim craftliterary.com/2025/06/04/res…

New #memoirexcerpt: "We droned all night about murders and the untimely deaths going on in our neighborhood as we swatted at mosquitoes. It had been toiling our thinking—the concept of no one ever returning." —Demetrius Buckley, "Death Around Da Corner" craftliterary.com/2025/06/06/dea…

New #creativenonfictionessay: "The day of my father’s service, we get his ashes in a cardboard box." —Jaime H. Herrera, "El Salto" craftliterary.com/2025/06/13/el-…

New #creativenonfictionessay: "I am mortally aware of the softness in my shape, a smooth face, cold sweat and heat beneath. Can they smell my prey-fear?" —Charlie Divine, "Freakshow: Rural Queerdom in Three Acts" craftliterary.com/2025/06/20/fre…

Submit to our First Chapters Contest! —Winner receives a $2,000 award and a full manuscript critique by Artful Editor. —Guest judged by Alejandro Heredia. —All winners receive an agent query workshop by Annalise Errico of Ladderbird Literary Agency. craftliterary.com/craft-first-ch…

New #memoirexcerpt: "/dəˈzastər/ noun - 1. A sudden event, such as an accident or a natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss or life." —Sloan Asakura, Excerpt from Window craftliterary.com/2025/06/27/win…

New flash #creativenonfiction: "In my story, the mother and daughter go out for dim sum on a Sunday, or a Saturday maybe, after basketball." —@linacherman, "Point of View" craftliterary.com/2025/07/09/poi…

Open now: Our 2025 First Chapters Contest. Winner receives a $2,000 award. 2nd and 3rd place winners receive a $500 award and $300 award respectively. Send us your first chapters of 5,000 words or fewer! Learn more: craftliterary.com/craft-first-ch…

New #shortstory: "When sleep accepts one week, it becomes death." —Kasịmma, "Ishi Agụ (Leaking Tigritude)" craftliterary.com/2025/07/11/ish…

New #creativenonfiction: "Like the sturdy dandelion, my father became a transplant: once native, then migrant, ultimately immigrant." —Judy Y. Chu, "Scattered and Borne Aloft: On Dandelions, Dumplings, and the Idea of Weeds" craftliterary.com/2025/07/16/sca…