Congratulations to Melissa Grunow, our June Writing Prompt Contest Winner! It was a drought. The first in ten summers that it refused to rain. Sunshine and heat during the day and strong winds threatening tornadoes at night, but no rain. Lawns burned to dry brush under the open sky and...

Today’s post is by The Quotable contributor, Paul Weidknecht, whose story “The Work of Living” appears in Issue 9: “Night and Day.” Most rejection articles rehash the same lugubrious tales of futility and injustice, stories of personal pains set against backdrops of unappreciated...

Last month, the other editors and I decided that it might be time to give our readers/contributors a short hiatus from the monthly micro-fiction contest.  We are hoping that everyone’s creative juices are once again flowing, and ready to take a crack at this month’s prompt.  Because we...

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...