When your wings hit glass, do you feel it?
Talking Funny
Last summer, I was one of many wide-eyed emerging writers who attended a craft seminar during The New School’s Summer Writers Colony where Elissa Bassist, the editor of the Funny Women column on TheRumpus.net, discussed what it means to write humor in New York.
An Unqualified Lady’s Guide to Writing A Book Review
Life is all about taking chances: asking your crush out, jumping out of a plane, adding (roasted) almonds to your salad.
Marjorie Simpson Will Have Her Revenge on Springfield
Marge ends up back in the same spot where she began, idly considering the corn-patterned curtains as she washes the dishes.
“Sometimes I do feel like an unlicensed and probably dangerous therapist.”
Alexandra Shelley has over 30 years of editing experience. She worked as an independent editor with author Kathryn Stockett on The Help, and with Martha Hall Kelly on both Lilac Girls and Lost Roses.
Poetry by Jamiya Leach
our palms pulping blue as homage, farewells.
Movie Night
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
We Need to Talk
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
After Love
Sanika Phawde is an illustrator, animator, and comix artist working between Mumbai and New York City. She makes zines to cope with life. She also goes by @thejackfruitslayer
Letter to a First-Time Admit
damn the children’s wing.
New School Book Community Round Up
The New School’s Creative Writing courses have inspired a wealth of published material, including several recent releases. Professor Susan Shapiro’s smart new book, The Byline Bible (Writer’s Digest Books) was directly inspired by her popular […]
Mizuki Nishiyama
“Nostalgia” | Mixed Media on Canvas (2018) “1 Quarter Not Yet Whole” Acrylic on Canvas (2017) “Friends” Acrylic on Wood (2016) Mizuki Nishiyama is a painter currently based in New York City and a […]
Poetry By Charlotte Slivka
I am too bothered to see correctly
“The Writer Who Is Talking Is Not the Same Person Who Writes the Books”
May, 1989. Horacio Castellanos Moya is working as a journalist in Mexico, reporting in exile on the civil war in El Salvador. His debut novel, La diáspora (released in the US for the first time […]
UNDERGRAD LIT JOURNAL SEEKING HANDS-OFF SUGAR DADDY
Buzzing fishbowl of starving artists seeks independently wealthy male (or any person, et al. who identifies as a “Sugar Daddy”) to fund our undergraduate literary journal, 12th Street, a serious, professional, funny, and sometimes scary […]
Poetry by Joris de Graaf
Mother recalls dead cells before and after my time.
Stay in Your (Bike) Lane
In the New York City transportation system, bike accidents are considered especially unimportant. The dedicated walkers who roam the streets and nearly get killed by cyclists have not responded to my ad on Craigslist, so […]
Poetry by Deandra Brunson
PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR MY SKIN
Family Ties
her moonlit coat was blue