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From the Writing Desk of: Davon Loeb

January 30, 2019

Pictured in each photo is my work desk, where I teach middle school English in New Jersey. Though I spend most of my time grading papers here, this is also where I write, edit, and have workshopped poems, essays, and stories for the last eight years. I find that I am most productive “at work” while at this desk, early in the morning, when my mind is the freshest, before the home room bell rings.

I write at home, of course, but I’ve made a sort of pledge to myself not use a computer...

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Just One Thing with Chelsea Cohen

January 28, 2019

This month's featured short story comes from Chelsea Cohen, or as we call her around these parts, Longform Pick of the Week Chelsea Cohen. That's right, her story from our January issue, 

"The Billings Brothers at the End of the World" was recognized as Longform Fiction's Pick of the Week last week. She shared just one thing about the influences behind the story (and a really great cat):

"Buffy was such a huge influence on me growing up, and one episode that has always stuck with me is 'The Zeppo,' whi...

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19 Rounds with Christopher Gonzalez

January 24, 2019

How excited were we when Christopher Gonzalez joined our team as a Contributing Editor? SO EXCITED. His short fiction has recently appeared online in places like Cosmonauts Avenue and Third Point Press, and he also recently curated an all Latinx issue of Barrelhouse (where he's fiction editor). Get to know Christopher even better with the 19 Rounds:

1. Early bird or night owl?

An incredibly unproductive night owl.

2. What was your worst haircut?

The decision to let a friend cut my hair in college was...m...

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Just One Thing with Kat Moore

January 22, 2019

We are so thrilled for the chance to publish Kat Moore, the author of this month's featured memoir. If you haven't yet read "When god is a man inside my mouth," just stop here. We'll wait.

Okay. Good. Kat kicks off the first Just One Thing of the year, sharing with us a behind-the-scenes look at revising the piece and also two of the cutest cats that ever been photographed:

"The first draft was written for a workshop in 2014. I didn’t revise it for a long time. In the summer of 2015, I did a reading in...

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19 Rounds with Matt Young

January 17, 2019

We are so thrilled that Matt Young has joined us as Memoir Editor. His memoir, Eat the Apple, was described as "brilliant and barbed" by NPR and "inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining" by the New York Times. And it's now available in paperback! Help us welcome Matt aboard the usual way: with 19 rounds.

1. Early bird or night owl?

Night owl. But now that I have a ten-month-old I am also an early bird. Fun fact: I am slowly dying from lack of sleep.

2. What was your worst haircut?

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Now Playing, Part 18

January 14, 2019

Our first issue of the year is just hours away, and you know what that means. A few of our January contributors share what they've been listening to, how it feels, and what it means:

Kat Moore

The last thing I listened to was the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. My husband got it for me as a Christmas gift. It has the three main characters on the front cover, and the vinyl is pink and shiny. It’s perfect. I used to listen to this soundtrack all those years ago in my bedroom. I was ten or eleven, and pretende...

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The FAM Roundup: December 2018

January 3, 2019

The calendar may say 2019, but you can't put a timestamp on the FAM's awesomeness. You all closed the year out with a bang! Catch up on your reading and revisit our contributors' work in the archives:

Books!

  • Kathy Fish’s new book Wild Life: Collected Works 2003-2018 is now available from Matter Press. 

  • Rebecca Kokitus’ chapbook Blue Bucolic will be published by Thirty West Publishing House in Summer 2019.

  • Olatunde Osinake’s chapbook The New Knew will be published by Thirty West Publishing...

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