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The Art of Ignoring
16 November 2018 on Fiction, Storystorm16A writer’s voice is their holy grail: key to their success and an absolute nightmare to find. What a strange conundrum, that finding your voice is hard. It should be...
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kim Adrian
09 November 2018 on Nonfiction, The Writer's Hot SeatKim Adrian is the author of The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, a memoir that David Shields calls “a stunning merger of form and content,” and Sock, which is part of Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons Series and...
Storystorm
Writing from Autumn: Contrast and Transformation Or, Yellow Leaf, Blue Sky
02 November 2018 on StorystormWhile running the Sweet Trail through Longmarsh, I watched a yellow leaf tumble from sky to still, blue pond. I stopped, let myself linger there, with fingers balled for warmth...
Poetry
“The Lake, the House, the Bus” by Laurinda Lind
26 October 2018 on Blog, PoetryWater no, spirit no, water in dreams, water like Lake Ontario, water like mud always spraying stones— a dream about us. In the house, lake under us, big house made...
Storystorm
Small & Large
26 October 2018 on Blog, Nonfiction, StorystormI like Small. Always have. Not because of my height, which is average. Not because of my scope, which, I like to think, is Large. But because Small, in terms...
Nonfiction
“Good Neighbors” by Theresa Starkey
12 October 2018 on Blog, NonfictionMy mother and I lived in a tiny wood panel house shaped like a squat box. We had five sets of neighbors. The family to the left of us had...
Poetry
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Ada Limón
12 October 2018 on Blog, PoetryAda Limón, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize in 2006 and finalist for the National Book Award in 2015, has come out with her new collection The Carrying, this past August....
Storystorm
Why We Love Our Favorite Short Stories
05 October 2018 on Blog, Fiction, StorystormI’ll never forget the first time I read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. My tenth-grade English teacher passed around a Tupperware container filled with folded squares of loose leaf—one piece...
Storystorm
Writing by Hand
28 September 2018 on Blog, StorystormThere’s something so formal about Word document screens, with their clean, white pages and perfectly straight blinking cursors. They make me feel what I’m about to write must also be...
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From the Editor
21 September 2018 on BlogDear Readers, Welcome! If you’re new to our literary journal, we encourage you to check out all that Barnstorm has to offer. If you’re a familiar face, we’re glad to...
Nonfiction
“Holes” By Heather Knowles
04 May 2018 on Blog, NonfictionOur house was the only one for miles around with a swimming pool. “Dug that sumbitch with nothing but a pick and shovel,” Dad would say. Roughly twelve feet square,...
Storystorm
AWP 2018: What I Brought Home was the Swag
04 May 2018 on Blog, StorystormI don’t mean to sound shallow. There was much that thrilled me at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) 2018 conference in Tampa beyond the buttons, pens, and...
