Writer In Residence Archives
Alexander Lumans, ‘Acknowledge the Corn’ by Alexander Lumans
Angela Woodward, ‘The Christmas Thing’ by Angela Woodward
Peter Grandbois, ‘The Peach’ by Peter Grandbois
Matthew Salesses, ‘Spinning Globes’ by Matthew Salesses
Kirsty Logan , ‘And Watch the Stars Go Out’ by Kirsty Logan
Robb Todd, ‘Blues Harp’ by Robb Todd
Heather Fowler, ‘A Faerie Tale’ by Heather Fowler
Elizabeth Ellen, ‘Avert Your Eyes From This Mess’ by Elizabeth Ellen
Paula Bomer, ‘The Favorite Daughter’ by Paula Bomer
Jamie Iredell, ‘Holden Caulfield When He Was Twenty-one Years Old and Living in Monterey and It’s Somehow the 1990s’ by Jamie Iredell
Craig Medvecky, ‘Flaragen O’Melverney’ by Craig Medvecky
Roxane Gay, 'Walking On Broken Glass' by Roxane Gay
AD Jameson, ‘Roses’ by AD Jameson
Will Buckingham, ‘George’s Devil’ by Will Buckingham
Sandi Sonnenfeld, 'Blue Ash' by Sandi Sonnenfeld
Court Merrigan, ‘Concrete Steel Forest’ by Court Merrigan
Sharon McGill, ‘And So She Made Some Changes’ by Sharon McGill
Buzz Mauro, ‘The Walk Home’ by Buzz Mauro
Salvatore Pane, 'Super Mario Bros: The Whole Story' by Salvatore Pane
JA Tyler, ‘One-Part Water’ by JA Tyler
Gary Percesepe, ‘Gail’ by Gary Percesepe
Janet Freeman, ‘Seize The Day’ by Janet Freeman
Robert Kloss, ‘A Summer Theft’ by Robert Kloss
Lauren Becker, ‘Wanna Be A Cowgirl’ by Lauren Becker
Matt Bell, ‘Blanket’ by Matt Bell
Nick Ripatrazone, ‘Pursell’ by Nick Ripatrazone
Rare Animal Facts by Jenny Halper
David Hasselhoff’s Game of Sexual Jungle Cat by Kevin Fanning
Excerpt from the Novella, Danceland by Jennifer Pieroni
Two Poems by Dennis Mahagin by Dennis Mahagin
Snap by Myfanwy Collins
Appalachian Silence among the Dark Selves by Sam Rasnake
Bang, Bang by Joey de Francesco
Sara Lippmann Interviews Julie Innis by Sara Lippmann
Inconsequential, Oklahoma by Robert Lopez
Novel Excerpt - Ellen Meister's The Other Life by Ellen Meister
Joseph Young, 'The Guides to Ossabaw' by Joseph Young
Alpha Woman Rapes Husband by Daphne Buter
Not Cool by Ellen Parker
Rain by Molly Gaudry
Don't Look For Her & Things by Randall Brown
Starts by Scott Garson
Till by Kim Chinquee
Wrestling with Genetics by Robert Vaughan
Moussaoui Remembers Fire by Chad Simpson
There Are No Lines in Nature by James Robison
Blue Company: work work work by Rob Wittig
Blue Company: rooster duty by Rob Wittig
Blue Company: glimpses by Rob Wittig
Blue Company: best news by Rob Wittig
Blue Company: Introduction by Rob Wittig
Nameless Films by Sandy Florian and Talan Memmott
Ingenstans by Talan Memmott
A Casual Introduction by Dirk Stratton
Intervention by Dirk Stratton
From The Unknown: Dirk Stratton's Last Will and Testament, Dirk's Last Wish, After His Death, Dirk Floated by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From The Unknown: Unfathomably, We Won a Shit Load of Awards by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From The Unknown: How We Trashed the Hotel Room, Boston, The First Time William Was in Space by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From The Unknown: Paris Miller, Dublin, Dirk is Cuchulainn by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From The Unknown: Public Health Transportation, Division of Labor, William's Ancestral Origins, On the Plane to London by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From the Unknown: Fall at the House of John Barth by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From The Unknown: Typing Test for Unknown Employment, Suggested Paper Topics for the Hypertext of the Unknown, The Unknown in Todays Society, The Unknown Should Be Banned by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
From The Unknown: Hypertext of the Unknown, Trip, Innocent, Illinois, Denver by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton with Frank Marquardt
SF for MFAs by Chris N. Brown (aka Chris Nakashima-Brown)
An excerpt from "213 Spiders" by Joanna Kenyon
How to Write a Book for the Index of a Book Never Written by Beverly Nelson
An Excerpt from "Popular Science" by Jess Stoner
Infamous Library by Işıl Eğrikavuk
On Robert Walser's Peripateticism by Shawn Huelle
Prepare for Bloat by Elizabeth Ellen
The Dictionary of Your Fears by Alexander Lumans
Parochial Plaids by Alexander Lumans
The O Mission Repo: Weave Plan by Travis Macdonald
The O Mission Repo: the Reface by Travis Macdonald
Things to do when you are lonesome by Mary Hamilton
Language as Landscape: from a Dissertation on Richard Brautigan by John Tanner, Ph.D.
Comic books?!? Why would you want to read those? by Andrew Wickliffe
Prowlers by Jac Jemc
The Roommate, Ritz by Meghan Austin
From The Racer Stories by Jennifer Denrow
Excerpt from Beyond This Point Are Monsters (cut scene) by Roxanne Carter
The Weather by Marream Krollos
Theology and insects: researching a novel by Susan Stinson
Bundling by Susan Stinson
The First and Final Season by Christine Gardiner
Our Past by Richard Froude
From Estranger by Erik Anderson
Hawthorne, Melville, and Allen Iverson by Seth Landman
The Mechanics of Love by Amy Marcott
That Which Does Not Require a Queen by Gabriel Blackwell
What He Saw by Lily Hoang
The Affliction by Robert Kloss
'Swarmed (excerpt)' by Renee Mallett by Renee Mallett
Goldfinch in the Snow by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
What I Was Left by Bernie McGill
Islands by Kevin Spaide
Signed copy of Cut Through the Bone Giveaway by Ethel Rohan
Dark Days by Jon Boilard
By Ballytrasna by Nuala Ní Chonchúir
A Heap Of Snow by Mairéad Byrne
"The Bitch of Blackrock" and "Severance" by Jennifer Matthews
"Rent Day," and "Nancy Spain" by Kevin O'Cuinn
"Fifty Words Crossing," "Crave," "Calving," and "Coda" by Cathi Murphy
"Morning on Montpelier," "Sibyl at the Rockefeller," and "Portrait of the Artist's Father" by Nessa O'Mahony
Polishing by David Mohan
Cold Cuts by Eimear Ryan
Graveside by Tania Hershman
My Secret War by Philip O'Ceallaigh
Madeleine D'Arcy, 'Clocking Out' by Madeleine D'Arcy
tokyo fishermen by Margaret Fletcher Saine
Social Experiment by Pauline Blatt
morning on the mountain by Claude Bailat
St. Tropez by Margaret Fletcher Saine
Indiscretion by Laure Mi Hyun Croset
The Settler by Céline Cerny
Jennifer Marie Donahue, 'How We Burn' by Jennifer Marie Donahue
Ben White, '+1 for a circle of friends?' by Ben White
Marcelle Heath, 'Nothing Good Can Come Of This' by Marcelle Heath
S. Craig Renfroe, 'The Banshee' by S. Craig Renfroe
Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss, 'What We Dream About the Fathers' by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss
Nick Ripatrazone, 'The Good Children Hunt' by Nick Ripatrazone
Heather Fowler, 'Good Country. People.' by Heather Fowler
Colin Winnette, 'The Robot is Glad to Hear Your Merry Christmas' by Colin Winnette
Doug Paul Case, 'Upon a Line by Rick Moody' by Doug Paul Case
Joe Kapitan, 'Island Diptych' by Joe Kapitan
Len Kuntz, 'Things I Know About Rabbit Holes' by Len Kuntz
Matthew Salesses, 'The Sky Doesn't Care Who You Are' by Matthew Salesses
xTx, 'The Weakest Death' by xTx
Alan Stewart Carl, 'Stars Like Glass' by Alan Stewart Carl
Tim Dicks, 'Sugar Angel' by Tim Dicks
Jimmy Chen, 'Molly of Moline' by Jimmy Chen
___________ by Matt Bell
Clown How She Said by Christopher Higgs
A World (So Long) Unseen by J.A. Tyler
And and Bears Clowns Tigers by Andy Devine
Erasure by Molly Gaudry
Columbine and Harlequin by Craig Medvecky
A Holiday Remix Double Feature by Charles Dodd White and Matthew Salesses
Aria for the Clown's Wife by Amber Sparks
Pierrot, Under the Big Top by Michael Kimball
In the Lost by Andrew Borgstrom
Long Days by Cory Lahue
The Final Room by James Tadd Adcox
A cautionary tale for runaways or: Hansel goes first by Kate Racculia
Portraits of the door I washed off of the house by Blake Butler
Acrobat by Laura van den Berg
Kidd, Kier, Kimball by Matt Bell
The Oregon Trail is made in China by Gregory Sherl
An Overlooked Tribe in Rural Pennsylvania by Steven Breyak
Halloween Sestina by Molly Gaudry
Nicky Boy and Baby Girl Are Illustrated by Matthew Salesses
2nd Contact by Craig Medvecky
The Sweet Sorrowful by Charles Dodd White
Plots by Andy Devine
The Sleepers by Amber Sparks
The Rise of Dr. Fu-Manchu by James Tadd Adcox
from: Around Here by Andrew Borgstrom
Fiji & the Grocery Store by Christopher Higgs
The Birds, the Light, Eating Breakfast, Getting Dressed, and How I Tried to Make It More of a Morning for My Wife by Michael Kimball
Variations of a Brother War (Education Triptych) by J.A. Tyler
Artifact 24: Textbook by Sheldon Compton
Artifact 29: Do Remember Me by Chantel Louise Tattoli
Artifact 30: All-Natural Plastic by J. Post
Artifact 22: Four Digits with Three Phalanges by Erin Fitzgerald
Artifact 12: The Boy of Threes by Alan Stewart Carl
Artifact 28: Blood Sucker by Lori Richards
Artifact 19: Artifact 19 by Tim Dicks
Artifact 4: What We Have Here: The Archaeologist’s Conceit by Katrina Gray
Artifact 21: Artifact 21 by Kirsty Logan
Artifact 15: Artifact 15 by Henry Vauban
Artifact 13: Fortune's Ambassador by Matt Cozart
Artifact 26: the last archives by Kira Sparks
Artifact 1: Artifact One by Matt Kirkpatrick
Artifact 8: Around Her Neck, The Weight of Stones by Roxane Gay
Artifact 20: Soulkeeper by Molly Gaudry
Artifact 11: Artifact XI by John Minichillo
Artifact 6: Hand of God by xTx
Artifact 25: The Golden City by Cami Park
Artifact 27: An Artists' Interregnum by Gabriel Blackwell
Artifact 17: When She Spoke by Vanessa Ramos
Artifact 2: Artifact from The Golden City by Lily Hoang
Artifact 9: Reaching in Numbness by Mel Bosworth
Artifact 5: The Invention of Housekeeping by Christy Crutchfield
Artifact 7: The Skeleton Fingers Have a Calming Effect by Salvatore Pane
Artifact 3 by Don Antenen
Artifact 18: He Who Finds It Lives Forever by Anne Valente
Artifact 16: The Life Within by Robert Kloss
Full Form by Mel Bosworth
Martha Seeks Revenge by Lily Hoang
Martha in Love by Lily Hoang
Fragments of a Pennsylvania, from a Larger Region by Matthew Kirkpatrick
Cagarse en la leche by Jen Michalski
His Days by Lauren Becker
Time/change by Amy McDaniel
Skinny Lullaby at the Lizard Lounge: Schenectedy by Kathy Fish
A Voice That Will Get You Anything Everything Ever by Robb Todd
Goodnight Dogs by Marcelle Heath
The Year Away by Erin Fitzgerald
Be Like Us and We Will Like You Maybe by Amber Sparks
Ready by xTx
The Subway Station by Tim Jones-Yelvington
The Woman on the Sidewalk by Ben White
Peafowl by Jensen Beach
A Brief History of Nephology by Ryan Call
Other Woman by Brandi Wells
Leroy Knows Things by M. Bartley Seigel
Make Over by Ethel Rohan
Tom Jane by Ken Baumann
Homesick by Paula Bomer
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On The Blog
Michelle Bailat-Jones reviews Echolocation by Myfanwy Collins (Engine Books, 2012).
In this week’s Research Notes, Megan Stielstra describes the lengths — and depths — she went to for the sake of a story.
Matt Baker and Mel Bosworth discuss their recent projects in hypertextual fiction.
Susan Jupp reviews Laikonik Express by Nick Sweeney (Unthank Books, 2011).
In this week’s Research Notes, Ben Nadler reflects on writing about military experience, without having military experience of his own.
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