Mix-and-Match Your Writing Classes — With the very sad news of Catapult shutting down their magazine and writing school (I’ve taught for Catapult since 2017, and it was by far my favorite place in terms of staff support and the excellent students I met), I wanted to put together a list of other venues that…

This game must stop! — “On Wall Street, individual investors are often derided as “dumb money,” destined to lose against the highly compensated analysts and traders who buy and sell stocks for a living. But in recent days, individual investors — many of them followers of a popular, juvenile, foul-mouthed Reddit page called Wall Street…

Party Solo and Party Safe! — Written by Caitlin Kunkel and Erica Lies Hey there sluts, ragers, and boozehounds, it’s Dionysus, God of the Vine and Party Boi Supreme. Look, I love nothing more than partying hardy as the god of wine and ecstasy (the feeling AND the pill), and I definitely miss retreating to the…

I asked a bunch of writers, journalists, and other creatives how they manage their creative systems. — Recently, I’ve been doing two things that have really helped my writing: 1. For the past year, I’ve been using a spreadsheet to track my writing, input, and a few other factors. I’ve found it really illuminating to see how streaks of writing daily can benefit me, when I really need to take a break to recharge, how reading/watching in new genres…

Here’s what they said — and what I learned from it — What can we salvage from this year? 2020. A garbage fire. A nightmare. The worst year of many of our lives. A contentious (to say the least) election, a raging worldwide pandemic, lockdowns, unexpected home schooling, social distancing, and spending time away from friends and family. It’s so bad… I’m almost sorry to see it go. Now…

Welcome to Couch & Bed. — **Co-written by Caitlin Kunkel and Patty Terhune** Welcome to Couch & Bed, the highly-rated home destination for excessive calorie consumption while quarantined. Exclusively available to patrons left to their own culinary devices for the foreseeable future, we invite you to embark upon a distinctive gastro-experience with this ten-course tasting menu: Amuse-bouche: Dainty Deli Meat Handfuls

We cannot allow our revenue to hemorrhage. — This piece is co-written by Caitlin Kunkel and Erica Lies “I would think since it’s a sales tax holiday, there’s really no limit on the number of items anybody can purchase,” Tennessee State Senator Joe Hensley said about potentially including tampons in a tax holiday, according to the Associated Press…

Sorry, Billiam. It’s time to March on outta here. — It’s a little known fact that Louisa May Alcott struggled mightily with writer’s block while drafting her classic Little Women. Originally, there was a FIFTH March sibling in the novel — an older brother named Billiam. …

Her new book is “Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s” — I first saw Tiffany’s Midge’s work on McSweeney’s, in a piece that we’ll talk about later in the interview. Her new book “Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s” is a compelling collection of life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in today’s America. With an artful mix…