As a special web anthology, The Missing Slate presents the work of its second fiction writing workshop graduates.
“The book that pushed me most into writing was Hamish Brown’s Scottish mountaineering work Hamish’s Mountain Walk, which excited me with the way the author linked bashing about in the hills, reading, and writing into an indivisible unity.” David McVey, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for September, talks to Casey Harding.
“In general, creative writing needs rules and constraints, ways to more or less artificially limit the unlimited options available to the writer.” Jarkko Tontti talks to Camille Ralphs in the latest instalment of our Poet of the Month series.
“There is so much copper in it that the grate has turned a beautiful blue and the edges rust,” writes Sarina Bosco in this week’s micro nonfiction
A special feature in celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 85th birthday.
“My writing can only be in response to writing. Often I even suspect I am only rewriting what others have written before me.” Arup K Chatterjee, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Rosario Freire.
“We liked to be Indians as much as we did cowboys—maybe more. The tide was turning. Or so we were told. Or so we wanted to believe.” Nancy Caronia juxtaposes the then and now of childhood in this week’s personal essay.
“I could not give a clear resolution. I did not intend to do so. I did not consider myself a judge.” Zoltán Böszörményi, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for March, talks to Constance A. Dunn.
“America’s beautiful face is a conglomerate, a skin of managed myths. Peel it back and the beautiful is revealed as the brutal.” Kent Monroe looks at how racism is interconnected with what it means to be American.
“It has taken me a long time to believe that writing for myself is a legitimate way to spend the day.” Mary de Sousa, The Missing Slate’s Author of the Month for February, talks to Casey Harding.