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Out with a Bang
03 May 2019 on Blog, Poetry, StorystormTwo of Barnstorm’s poetry readers are graduating from the MFA program this spring; before they head out, Milo and Morgan took the time to share their thoughts on the evolution...
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AWP 2019: I’ll Show You
26 April 2019 on StorystormAt my first AWP conference, I attended a panel titled “Unrealism: The True Art of Fantastic Fiction,” and I listened reverently as Carmen Maria Machado discussed the origin of her...
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Being Around People Who Get It
19 April 2019 on Blog, Nonfiction, StorystormEn route to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, I ran into a writer at the airport who I knew from my past life as a newspaper reporter....
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AWP: I didn’t do everything
12 April 2019 on Blog, Poetry, StorystormRemember:this is just one seaon one beach on oneplanet in onesolar system in onegalaxy. After thatthe scale increases, sothis is not the last word,and nothing else is talking back.It’s a...
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Spooling Heart onto the Page
29 March 2019 on Fiction, StorystormMaybe it’s ironic that the absence of a weakness I identify in my personal life is itself a weakness in my stories. What do I mean by that? I’ve long...
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Throwing the Orange
08 March 2019 on Fiction, StorystormRecently I read the short story collection Refund by Karen Bender. Her stories awakened something in me: I could finally make my characters do things! It sounds ridiculous, but I...
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The Thing I Call “Inspiration”
08 February 2019 on Fiction, StorystormI used to think that to be a writer, I have to be creative—to have a well of stories singing within me, to have dreams that will create either chaos...
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What Do We Look For in Nonfiction Submissions?
01 February 2019 on Nonfiction, StorystormWe don’t read creative nonfiction just to be informed — we also want to be moved. All our readers have wonderfully distinct perspectives, and all are moved by different elements...
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The Score for a Voice
14 December 2018 on Poetry, Storystorm“Prosody is not much taught or talked about, since it was a form of institutional terrorism in the previous, metrical orthodoxy.” Robert Haas, Listening and Making Prosody is a spooky...
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The Boring Post
30 November 2018 on StorystormThis fall, during a very, very long run, I wrote an entire story in my head. At its start, I had an inkling of an idea, and by its end,...
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Presence in Poetry
23 November 2018 on Poetry, StorystormI write poetry to get weird. I want to be the weirdest me there is and then push that marker; I want to float, magnanimous as a blimp; to pop...
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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...
