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Fiction
“Wild Animals” by David Braga
20 April 2018 on Blog, FictionThe last time I saw Allison Moore, there was a cougar loose in our town. This happened from time to time. Every couple of years, a cat would come down...
Poetry
“The Ice on the River” by Brookes Moody
13 April 2018 on Blog, PoetryI’m always just saying new things about waves— like how when ice forms on a river, despite the currents, ...
Nonfiction
“Love in Marble” by Jenne Knight
30 March 2018 on Blog, NonfictionTen years ago, my mother and I flew to Italy on an open-jaw, two-week tour, where we snaked through the country from Milan to Rome. Because we lived in different...
Storystorm
AWP 2018: Consider the coffee
30 March 2018 on Blog, StorystormEvery year, just in time for the zombie-like resurgence of winter in New England to bury all transportation in snow, twelve thousand writers spill into a cavernous convention center to...
Poetry
“Loading Zone” by Tara Deal
23 March 2018 on Blog, PoetryThere can be only one New York morning when you discover the gingko trees lose their leaves all at once, give up, make a mess. Velvet is elsewhere and then...
Poetry
I Stare at Passing Clouds (After Tu Fu) by George Freek
09 March 2018 on Blog, PoetryI stare at passing clouds, above the quiet street. The evening is peaceful. Half drunk, I sway in the doorway. The moon lights the twilight sky. Stars glisten like leering...
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Alice McDermott
09 March 2018 on Blog, Fiction, The Writer's Hot SeatNational Book Award Winning author and UNH alumna Alice McDermott recently visited University of New Hampshire as part of UNH’S Department of English Writers Series. Enshrined in the glow of...
Nonfiction
“Laying on of Hands” by Matt Muilenburg
23 February 2018 on Blog, NonfictionI unwillingly entered the priesthood in seventh grade. My name appeared on the slip of paper my teacher drew from the fake chalice we would later use during our staging...
Storystorm
Magnetic Irony
23 February 2018 on Blog, Poetry, StorystormFuture generations may define our period style by its pervasive sincerity. Irony is what's missing from much contemporary poetry. For example, the popular political poems are earnest, if angry, and...
Storystorm
What do we look for in fiction submissions?
09 February 2018 on Fiction, StorystormBarnstorm’s fiction readers have varied reading tastes and interests, but they share a common passion for stories. Recently, they weighed in on what they look for as they read fiction...
Poetry
“Return No. 2” by Laurel Milburn
02 February 2018 on Blog, PoetryWe step outside an axis where the magnets scrape to a dry thinning spark. Things to do: Things to do to turn a nocturne to a waltz. Today is red....
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Mira Ptacin
02 February 2018 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatMira Ptacin reports on women in trouble—in trouble with the law, with the economy, with their bodies, with ghosts. Her memoir, Poor My Soul, has been called “a funny and...
