Mud Season Review
An Interview with Kayann Short by Coty Poynter, Mud Season Review Creative Nonfiction Editor “I’ve always loved Annie Lamott’s idea of the ‘shitty first draft.’” Kayann Short “Front Range Triptych” is a wonderful essay filled with some lovely, beautiful moments. There’s something about each section that feels, for a lack of better words, incredibly human. […]
Creative Nonfiction Editor Coty Poynter interviews writer Mike Wilson. Read Wilson’s essay “Memory Unit” here. “What sticks in our craw as a memory is part of the experience we haven’t brought fully to consciousness.” Mike Wilson “Memory Unit” approaches dementia and its effects, topics that can be difficult to write about head-on. The narrative doesn’t […]
Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor Coty Poynter interviews writer Anna Oberg. Read Oberg’s essay “Devonia Street” here. I know I have arrived at the ending, when I feel the thing in me that has been holding its breath has exhaled. —Anna Oberg “Devonia Street” is a very intimate essay that revolves around this idea of revisitation, be […]
Nonfiction Co-Editor Coty Poynter interviews Issue #57’s nonfiction author Laura Carnes Williams Find Laura’s work here. “I start the writing process off the page. I get an idea and take it for long walks, shaping it into a story, literally step by step.” —Laura Carnes Williams This essay is intimate, filled with moments of self-reflection. […]
“ …An absence, in this case the absence of love, could swallow a life—. “
Brenden Wolfe