by Earl Carlo Guevarra | Sep 27, 2024 | Craft, Issue #7, Issues
It is another unusually cool January evening – while one may say that it is the time for beautiful snow and white Christmas in the Northern Hemisphere, it is a completely different story for us living in the tropics, especially near the equator. Still, the...
by Mandira Pattnaik | Sep 27, 2024 | Craft, Issue #7, Issues
One of the biggest challenges I face as a writer in English (my mother tongue is Bangla) is incorporating direct speech into my fiction and nonfiction work. It seems like a stone fort wall that I haven’t enough ammunition or tenacity to aim a cannonball at. I fail...
by LaDonna Witmer | Sep 27, 2024 | Craft, Issue #7, Issues
The thing about writing is you’re never over it. Never satisfied. Never finished. You’re always in search of the perfect word, sentence, paragraph, page, manuscript, and then the next idea and the one after that. You are ravenous, scavenging every situation for a...
by Matias Travieso-Diaz | Sep 27, 2024 | Craft, Issue #7, Issues
My Writing History Early in life I developed a passion for the written word and started devouring every printed thing that came into my hands. Later, I became editor of the student newspaper of my Havana high school and wrote editorials, articles and even gossip...
by Thomas Larson | Mar 31, 2024 | Craft, Issue #6, Issues
I’ve been on a journey the past five years that some writers who come tantalizingly close to publication know all too well. From 2018-2022, I worked on a novel, paid thousands to a professional editor, another thousand for a lawyer’s opinion of my legal liability, and...
by Veronica Zora Kirin | Mar 31, 2024 | Craft, Issue #6, Issues
“I can’t remember a time when the publishing industry, like other institutions devoted to the arts … didn’t come down on the side of fashion and power.” — Hilton Als When my recent short story was accepted for publication, I was delighted. The hard work was over; it...
