Vice Magazine has now taken down its fashion photography spread featuring reenactments of women writers‘ suicides. In their statement, they suggest that they were trying to do something creative, something that pushed the boundaries, and that in attempting to do…
Thoughts on Writing
How to Use Creative Writing Workshops
by ekswitaj •
This summer, thousands of ambitious writers will move to new towns and cities in order to pursue their MFAs. Others will start (mostly) online programs in the fall. All of them will be subjected to workshops. These are two strategies…
Why I Write Flash Fiction
by ekswitaj •
What draws me to flash fiction is the way its brevity foregrounds two things: concept and style. Longer fiction can have these elements too; works like Finnegans Wake may even be dominated by one of them. Such an emphasis, however,…
Why Poets Should Read Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
by ekswitaj •
The prose of Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then has a frustrated and frustrating music, the rhythm of minds trying to resolve the past and the present and memories that might be fantasies, likely are fantasies, or may be the future.…