Blog
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...
Blog
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...
Poetry
“Earthbind” by Laura Post
27 April 2018 on Blog, PoetryHe asks me casually if I ever want to get married, and I think about how I can’t even stand guided tours. A little girl at the top of the...
Storystorm
AWP 2018: Among My Own – For a Few Days, Anyway
27 April 2018 on Blog, StorystormThe flight left Boston on the billowing forefront of a Nor'easter that would shut down the Eastern Seaboard the following week. We touched down in Tampa’s breezy 65 degrees. It...
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...
