Today‘s blog post comes from The Quotable contributor, Sarah Evans. You can read Sarah’s short story, “How to Make Out in the Back of a Volkswagen Beetle” in our upcoming issue, Night and Day.   I once had a drunken conversation with a published writer in a...

Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, Marian Kaplun Shapiro, whose poem “Around here, March” will appear in Issue 9: “Night and Day”. I’m a poet of the moment. That is, if I have a M/moment, I snatch it. M represents the Muse of inspiration; its lower case sibling a...

by Lauren Camp My poem in this issue of The Quotable is not the first about my mother. Or the second, or third. It’s about the gazillionth. No kidding. My mom died and I wrote about grief and loss, and all the normal stuff a person tries to process when someone close to them is suddenly and...

I was asked to guest edit Issue 9 of The Quotable and immediately jumped at the chance. I love reading poems while questioning, complicating, and evolving my ideas about what makes anything “good” and “publishable” literature, even when the discussions between editors...

Congratulations to John Pawson, our March Writing Prompt Contest Winner! The palaeographer scratched his head, confused. The slab of granite sat front and centre of the table, surrounded by aged tomes and yellowed, dog-eared books. These letters… there was no doubt; he’d definitely seen...

Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, klipschutz. His poem, “Cannibal’s Delight” appears in the “Storytelling” issue. In one sense, “Cannibal’s Delight” is a list poem – but only by way of being the ‘code’ behind the program, as it were; on the...

Today’s blog post comes from The Quotable contributor, James Pouilliard. You can read James’s story, “When Bruce Was Eaten by the Bear” in Issue 8: Storytelling   In one of her memoirs, in a chapter about Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman called herself a poor...

Congratulations also to Chris Baird, our February Writing Prompt Contest Winner! Chapped lips on a springtime face. He leaned close to explain to her the important distinctions between stormtroopers and scout troopers and she stole it: his first kiss. She smelled as good as a fresh comic...

Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, Margaret Eaton. Look for her story, “The Trees Would Know” in the “Storytelling” issue. If you’re a budding writer and you don’t hang out with other writers, or live in a bohemian neighborhood, or teach an English class at the...