By Greg F. DeLaurier | “When I was an academic, I published a lot of nonfiction…. Upon retirement, I turned to my first love, fiction writing…”

By John Howard | “you have to believe/ in the life that can emerge/ before you feel/ Spring rains…”

By Joanna Dellaripa Rosenberg | “Josie looked past Uncle Enzo’s smug face to get a glimpse of Uncle Sebastiano in his casket. A perfectly pressed pinstripe suit with a red rose in his front pocket…”

By Laura Speare and Charlie Kelly | “Its cool waters cradle me/ as far above a cloud morphs/ from dragon to pooch”

By Brad Wall and Rebecca Flores | “A nectarean blunderer/I am; a true chain-armored thunderer/Upon this hollowed isle/In which the remains of revered ships now lay as an exalted pyle. “

By Sarah Beasley Monzón and Kerry Pegoraro | “Sorry, our English Setter, looks sideways out her one black eye with the black spots dripping down her white face like tears “

By Michelle Ramadan and Nancy Werlin | “If he twined round your ankles, you would take him in, and love him all the days of his life.”

By Joanna Dellaripa Rosenberg | “The reality that she was leaving the country for the first time on her own started to set in. But then she reminded herself that this was the chance of a lifetime.”

By Gregory DeLaurier | “Our main destination was Cafe Le Hibou, a pretty famous place in its day. The perfect coffee house: dark, small, with just the right balance of alienation and cigarette smoke.”

By Anne Macdonald | “I sat down in the Writers Studio with Alix to talk about her new collection, her writing process, and the importance of a writing community.”