The Anthologist: A Compendium of Uncommon Collections

An introduction to three new anthologies, including Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance and Black Punk Now: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Comics.
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An introduction to three new anthologies, including Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance and Black Punk Now: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Comics.
“I was stretching to become a different kind of writer, and that took time.” —Justin Torres, author of Blackouts
“I felt that I knew the characters deeply after years of thinking about these stories.” —Shannon Sanders, author of Company
“Celebrate the small victories!” —Isle McElroy, author of People Collide
The author of Wine People explores how conducting interviews can inform narratives and characters.
“For me, giving language to something, finding a name for it, enacts a kind of metabolic process.” —Cintia Santana, author of The Disordered Alphabet
The author of Wine People offers an exercise in getting to know your characters.
“Just keep listening to the work, one poem at a time.” —Heather Lanier, author of Psalms of Unknowing
The author of Wine People considers how a more expansive understanding of setting can deepen a story.
“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions