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SNOWSTORM! Holiday Edition
24 December 2014 on Blog, StorystormWe feel a powerful, sentimental attachment to books with personalized inscriptions. In terms of Thoughtful Holiday Gifts, these rank near the top. To rediscover a dust-covered novel and read your favorite...
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The Law of Narrative Density
29 November 2014 on Blog, Storystormhad meant to write a defense of the short story as a narrative entity, regaling you with tales of its history and importance. I would dazzle you, show the short...
The Writer's Hot Seat
The Writer’s Hot Seat: Katy Butler on Memoir and Medical Reporting
12 November 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Jesse Duthrie On a Tuesday night last October, I picked Katy Butler and her partner, Brian, up at Logan International Airport. We packed into my car and drove...
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Storystorm
30 April 2014 on Blog, StorystormThis is true. In the past forty-eight hours I have cried nine times. I cried when I dropped a yellow M&M on my blue shirt and it left a mark....
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Kate Christensen on Food as the Powerful Conduit to Memory
29 April 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle I first discovered Kate Christensen's writing when I absently googled the name of my parents organic farm in Center Conway, NH, and up popped Christensen's food-centered...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Tom Chiarella on Ethics and the Interview
15 April 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Leslie Brown When I called Esquire Magazine’s writer-at-large, Tom Chiarella, on a frigid February afternoon for a Barnstorm interview, he was adding the finishing touches to Esquire’s April 2014 cover...
Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious.
Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious.
14 April 2014 on Blog, Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious.This week Barnstorm poetry presents three more poems chosen by three more dextrous minds of the editorial staff. Enjoy them, enjoy yourself, enjoy the pillows under your head, and the...
Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious.
Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious
07 April 2014 on Blog, Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious.After a year hiatus, "Poetry: Serious. Not That Serious" is back just in time for National Poetry Month. April is the (cruel) month where we celebrate the first nuanced thaw...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Robert Vivian on the Dervish Essay
02 April 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle and Alyssa Martino Last week, Barnstorm published Richard Vivian’s nonfiction essay, "Looking, Then Listening." The editors were so intrigued by this interesting, chaotic, and quite lovely...
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Storystorm
26 March 2014 on Blog, StorystormThis week's Storystorm is brought to you by Victoria Campbell Lately, I have been struggling. When I sit down to write, words don't come or, if they do, they never...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Wendy MacLeod on Playwrighting, Good Writing, and Teaching That Keeps You Honest
18 March 2014 on Blog, The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Sarah Earle I’ve known Wendy MacLeod since I was little and splashing around in the New Hampshire lake where Wendy also spent summer holidays. She had a beach...
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The Writer’s Hot Seat: Lisa Romeo on Memoir, Balance, and Karma
04 March 2014 on The Writer's Hot SeatInterview by Alyssa Martino Lisa Romeo’s *I Should Be Writing* Boot Camp is one of the main reasons I’m now earning my MFA. I say this because I never...
