Books Miss Havisham: A History
Carrie Frye on Miss Havisham, one of Dickens's most memorable characters, who presides over Great Expectations "like a great, ill-willed fairy queen."
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Writing Liar, Gambler, Coward, Beast: A Long Story
Zoe Selengut takes us on a strange, elliptical, delightful journey though her family's history.
Writing The Writer as Robot: Fluency, Fanfiction, and Finding My Voice
B.N. Harrison on how fanfiction allowed her to write without hesitation and made her a writer.
Writing Autumn Island: A Short Story
"Autumn Island," a short story by Emmy Nicklin.
Writing “Worse Things”: Sandy and Rizzo and Me
Mara Wilson on Grease, friendship, teenagers, and being a Sandy who desperately wants to be a Rizzo.
Personal Stories First and Last: Notes on Adoption and Names
A series of vignettes on names given, chosen, and changed.
Art So, You’re Thinking About Seeing a Play
A play is a movie that can spit on you.
Personal Stories Storm Birds: A Chef’s Adventures in the South Pacific
In which the author leaves her job as a professional chef to spend some months sailing with her uncle and his family.
Writing Hope for the Stricken: The Penzeys Spices Catalog
Kelly O'Connor McNees on escaping into the Penzeys Spices catalog when life and the world are too much to bear.
Writing Relevant To Our Interests: On the Future Site of Outer Coast College
A Toastie reports from Sitka, Alaska, the future site of our cherished and anticipated Outer Coast College.
Writing TODAY: Read Catapult’s ‘Adopted’ Essay Series!
"For many of us who choose to write about adoption, telling our stories often means reclaiming them first."
Writing Every Perfect Sentence I Have Found In The Lady
The Lady is nothing but beautiful, charming sentences.
Writing What I Learned in Burns: On Landscape, Nostalgia, and Identity
Katelyn Best reflects on her visit to her great-grandparents' homestead near Burns, Oregon and the urban/rural divide in parts of the West.
Family My Father, the Church, and Why I Left
Mindy Hung on her childhood church and her own journey towards atheism.
Writing Anya: A Short Story
"It didn’t make Anya bad—to do what people had to have her do. In fact it made her good."
