A new story from D.A. Hosek, “Place de Stalingrad”
"Place de Stalingrad" by D.A. Hosek asks is it better to make art that matters or art that makes money? If nobody wants art, what does the question matter? Find it in here in Ligeia Magazine, Spring 2022.
Is it a quiz or a poem? Read the latest by Lori Barret
This fun quiz-in-poem-form kicks off with a question all writers and bakers can relate to, “Can you guess which of the statements below are from judges sampling baked goods and which are from editors sampling my writing?”
“Did You Eat a Lot Of Paint Chips as a Child?”: A new story from Lori Barrett
Check out CLW’s Lori Barrett new story, “Did You Eat a Lot of Paint Chips as a Child,” in Bull magazine. This is a funny and heartbreaking tale of a mid-life man’s adventure working retail.
A new list story from D.A. Hosek, "The Norton Anthology of Self-Destructive Behaviors"
“The Norton Anthology of Self-Destructive Behaviors” by D.A. Hosek provides us list-lovers with a short story we can keep on our wall. Well, maybe a little dark for that, this well crafted story uses lists to build it’s drive and leave the reader lingering on the edge.
Michigan Quarterly Review 60th Anniversary Issue reprints Kalisha Buckhanon’s “Card Parties”
Kalisha writes about “Card Parties,” this “little story gave me the boost at that hard time to push through to write more and that is what writers NEED. And it shows you never know where things we write will go or what it will impact.”
A new story “The Namesake” by a new CLW member
D.A. Hosek has joined us in our virtual Zoom world this strange year. Please check out his most recent publication in The Sandy River Review, “The Namesake”.
Cassiopeia
Laura Nelson published a great new story at Fiction Southeast. The group workshopped the story at lest once! Check it out!