Today’s guest post comes from contributor, Kit Haggard. Her short story “Lost” appears in Issue 11 of The Quotable. At a summer writing workshop in high school, a professor told me that the sentence “The king died, and then the queen died,” is just history, but “The king died, and...

Today’s guest post comes from contributor, Sonja Larsen. Her short story “What is Sweet” appears in Issue 11 of The Quotable. My first job in the skid row neighborhood of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, was as a receptionist in a halfway house for people with mental illnesses and...

Today’s guest post comes from contributor, Judy Witt. Her poem “Twister” appears in Issue 12 of The Quotable. When I first heard the Beatles sing, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?” that age seemed an impossibly long way in the...

Today’s guest post comes from contributor, Elaine Kehoe. Her short story “Breakage” appears in Issue 12 of The Quotable. I am a writer working to get better at my craft. I am an occasional jogger lucky just to be able to go out and get my legs to move. Sometimes, on...

Today’s guest blog post comes from The Quotable contributor, Kimbra Cutlip. When I began to write “A Name for Regret” which appears in Issue 12 of The Quotable, I thought I was writing about a memory and little girl in Africa—about how each had been transformed in my heart by...

The Quotable is pleased to announce our nominations for the 2013 Pushcart Prize.   Every year, small and independent publishers may nominate six literary works published that year for the prestigious Pushcart Prize.  Here are the nominees from The Quotable:   ISSUE 9, Night and...

Today’s guest blog post comes from Jean Herreman, whose short story “Dementia” appears in Issue 11 of The Quotable. This morning I discovered a great character in an unlikely place—the Saturday “Wheels” section of The Island Packet, the local newspaper here on Hilton Head...

Today’s guest blog post comes from Quotable contributor Matthew Andrew. “Musa Qala,” my story that was selected for volume 10 of The Quotable, was conceived from an extra homework assignment given in a class dealing with the fundamentals of short fiction. The topic we were studying at...

Today’s guest blog post comes from Jed Myers, whose poem “I’ve Left You” appears in Issue 10 of The Quotable. When 9/11 happened, twelve years ago now, I was one among the many who found ourselves somehow broken open. It was not unlike other sudden losses or...