In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jean McDonough
Your nonfiction piece, “Vanishing Point,” expertly braids painting and Cubism techniques, specifically Picasso’s Guernica, with a turbulent childhood, layered within the reality and metaphor of driving. What was the spark that made you blend these together? How did...
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Darryl Holmes
Your poem in Vol. 24 “The Persistence of Memory” uses Salvador Dalí's 1931 surrealistic painting (of the same name). Can you speak to the inspiration behind this poem? How did it come to be? I went back to get my MFA late in life because I needed something to restore...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Jeannine Hall Gailey
Your poem “On the Autumn Equinox, 2019” from Volume 24 explores some big ideas on resistance: resistance from rape culture and patriarchy, resistance from predators or the changing of seasons, the body resisting it’s own state of health. Can you tell us how this poem...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Arleta Little
Back in November 2020, we asked contributing creative nonfiction editor Carolyn Holbrook what types of submissions she wanted to receive for our forthcoming issue. “I can’t imagine Vol. 24 not having a lot to do with 2020,” she responded. “I want people to face 2020...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—David Aloi
“People Here”, your story in Vol. 24, immediately transported me to my middle-school days crowded around a friend’s computer, the sweet sound of the dial-up connection whirring, hoping we could find some harmless fun in a chat room, much like a teenaged Anthony seeks...
Inside and Outside the Box by Stan Sanvel Rubin
For the past two years, our poetry reviews editor Stan Sanvel Rubin has wondered what impact pandemic-related isolation and online reading events will have on the future of writing. Like many of us, Stan found comfort and community from attending virtual events, but...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Gen Del Raye
In “Home Burial”, your short story published in Volume 24, the speaker’s grandmother attends the funeral of a man she worked for whose job was to recommend men in the village to draft in the war. How did the idea for this story originate? I had already written several...
In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Heather A. Warren
We selected a phrase from a line in your poem “What Wounds Become”, which acts in conversation with the poet torrin a. greathouse, as the subtitle of Volume 24 because it perfectly embodies thematic and imagistic elements in this issue from a multitude of...
A Conversation With Kao Kalia Yang—WSR Contributing Creative Nonfiction Editor
What are the types of essays you would like to see in Volume 25? I want to see essays from a diverse array of perspectives on a wide range of issues in Volume 25. I want to cull from talent from different communities and put together exciting contributions that will...