Issue #6

Some excerpts from Issue Six:

One doesn’t write stories about people who are comfortable in their skins. You have to have trouble to write a story. If you don’t have trouble, you don’t have a story.—Tobias Wolff, interviewed by Jim Schumock

In prose, you know the poetic moment. It is blatant. It affects you. It changes how you read and how you breathe at that moment.—Alberto Rios, interviewed by Susan McInnis

Writing is often as difficult for me as it is exhilarating. I come to the desk at the same time day after day, and sometimes I’m discouraged by what I’ve done, and sometimes the work, the moment, the message are all so right, so close to the bone, that I am transported and never want it to end.—Mary McGarry Morris

Writers will do that, too; instead of going for it, writing from their hearts, giving their best, they will hedge…—Thom Jones, interviewed by Jim Schumock

Some people are called by the language, and then they have to learn to see the stories and find out what they mean and all those other things. Some people are called by story and then have to learn to love and use the language.—Joyce Thompson

The stories I’m writing now are less concerned with childhood, although there’s always at the center the nugget of something that has happened a long time ago. Writers are recycling their childhood all the time.—Mary Morrissy, interviewed by Annie Callan