Catapult

Cover Photo: closeup photograph of kodomo-don (egg with onion and other seasonings over white rice, topped with slivered nori) in a white bowl

Columns | Half Recipes

Between Parent and Child: A Recipe for Kodomo-Don

I call it 子供丼 (kodomo-don), because it is only egg over rice. Something about it is simple, one rank lower in maturity than an adult dish.

Oct 19, 2021

Cover Photo: A plate of stroopwafels—wafer-like cookie sandwiches with a thin filling of syrup

Places | Culture | Migrations

Longing for the Netherlands, Stroopwafels, and the Real Thing

We don’t crave the things we’re close to, even if they’ve shaped us into who we are.

Oct 14, 2021

Cover Photo: Screencap via Disney

Culture | Queer Life

Confessions of a Little Mermaid

The taste of silence and salt heavy on my tongue.

Michele Kirichanskaya

Oct 13, 2021

UPCOMING ONLINE CLASSES

Catapult online classes: Anja Mutić, 4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Breaking into Travel Writing, Nonfiction, Seminar

Online | Nonfiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Nonfiction Seminar: Breaking into Travel Writing

Catapult online classes: Adin Dobkin, 6-Week Online Open-Genre Workshop: Developing a Creative Writing Research Toolkit, Fiction, Nonfiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction, Nonfiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Open-Genre Workshop: Developing a Creative Writing Research Toolkit

Catapult online classes: Zefyr Lisowski, 4-Week Online Poetry Intensive for Queer & Trans Writers: Trans Bodies, Trans Horror, Poetry, Intensive

Online | Poetry | Intensive

4-Week Online Poetry Intensive for Queer & Trans Writers: Trans Bodies, Trans Horror

Catapult online classes: Shoshana Akabas, 4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Reimagining Setting, Fiction, Seminar

Online | Fiction | Seminar

4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Reimagining Setting

Shoshana Akabas

Catapult online classes: Jennifer Close, 4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Getting Started, Fiction, Novel, Seminar

Online | Fiction, Novel | Seminar

4-Week Online Fiction Seminar: Getting Started

Catapult online classes: Delaney Nolan, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Beginnings & Endings, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Beginnings & Endings

Catapult online classes: Ploi Pirapokin, 6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Fantastical Characters, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: Fantastical Characters

Catapult online classes: Peyton Burgess, 6-Week Online Short Story Workshop, Fiction, Workshop

Online | Fiction | Workshop

6-Week Online Short Story Workshop

Don’t Write Alone

Cover Photo: This photograph shows a person with silver nail polish looking a tax documents spread out on white floorboards.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

Financial Advice for the Freelancer

For our Money Week series, Nicole Dieker answers commonly-asked questions from freelance writers

Sep 15, 2021

Cover Photo: An animated illustration of a person typing on a laptop, seen from outside their window. Outside the window, against a blue background, large gold coins drop from the sky and accumulate in a small stack.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

Why Full-Time Freelancing Isn’t For Me

In the face of dire job prospects, freelancing felt like it might be a solution; a way to be a writer on my own terms.

Gabrielle Drolet

Oct 12, 2021

Cover Photo: This illustrated gif peeks into someone's window, where we see them typing furiously. On the right side of the image, coins are falling from the top of the image and stacking up. Pens and paper scatter the far right edge of the illustration.

Don’t Write Alone | Shop Talk

A Freelancer Talks Money and Writing

It’s not what you write that’s meaningful, but the time you spend writing.

Oct 12, 2021

Culture

Cover Photo: Photograph courtesy of the author

I Can’t Go Home, So I Go to the Indian Grocery

Cover Photo: Illustration via P-Studio/Atlus

‘Persona 5 Royal’ and the Case for Suffering

Cover Photo: An image of Hay and Anna

Matthew Shepard Bought an Engagement Ring

New from Catapult Books

Catapult | nonfiction

Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses

Catapult | memoir

Made in China by Anna Qu

Catapult | fiction

The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore

Catapult | fiction

Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The PEN America Dau Prize edited by Yuka Igarashi and Sarah Lyn Rogers

Catapult | memoir

Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir by Christopher Sorrentino

Catapult | short stories

Catapult | fiction

Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

Catapult | fiction

Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo

Columns

Cover Photo: A photograph of a white clock with black sans serif numbers, hanging on a white wall. The clock's hands are pointed at ten minutes past ten o'clock.

Columns | Late Bloomer

Getting Diagnosed with ADHD Changed Everything and Nothing

The doctor said she knew in the first five minutes. In eighteen years of schooling and thirty-nine years on the planet, no one else had ever noticed.

Oct 07, 2021

Cover Photo: A production still of Robert Downey Jr. playing Tony Stark in the film "Iron Man" (2008). He is wearing a white tank top and holding out his hand, which is encased in a dark red, mechanized metal glove.

Columns | Muscle Memories

Did I Want Tony Stark Or Want to Be Him?

‘Iron Man’ is far from the origin story of my sexuality, but it’s an inescapable part of the multiverse that is my queerness.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 04, 2021

Cover Photo: Production still via Freeform/Jonathan Wenk

People | Columns | Gold Stars

Your Friend Group Should Look Like the Cast of a Twenty-Something Drama (and Other Myths About Millennial Friendship)

New responsibilities clogged up phone lines and changed what used to be lifelines—how were we supposed to maintain our relationships?

Rainesford Stauffer

Sep 30, 2021

Books

Cover Photo: An image of The Phantom Tollbooth’s cover

The Transportive Power of ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’

Anya Jaremko-Greenwold

Cover Photo: crop of comic book cover illustration of Riri WIlliams, aka Ironheart

How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy

Ravynn K. Stringfield

Cover Photo: a grey-brown bronze statue of Michel de Montaigne, depicted here as an aging man with a bald head, a mustache, and short beard, wearing a neck ruff, robes, and a chain of office

My Father, Montaigne, and the Art of Living

Ann Tashi Slater

Poetry

Cover Photo: An image of a man walking surrounded by birds, books, flowers and other joys

Catapult | Poetry

Let Me Show You

oh, how my little joys have saved me

Oct 13, 2021

Cover Photo: illustration of a front porch in the evening, with three different generations represented by a chair, a rocking chair, and toys scattered on the porch, with windchimes in the foreground and a school building visible in the distance

Catapult | Poetry

When your friend tells you: “these kids

at night, when i’m outside and / the wind shakes the chimes, it sounds like the bell

Sep 14, 2021

Cover Photo: a man standing on an abstract beach depicted in shades of black, purple, and fiery red, with ashes swirling around and a red phoenix flying overhead

Catapult | Poetry

Ashes at Kande Beach, Malawi

Everything is an elegy these days, all chipped rings, / clipped wings.

Jun 29, 2021

Fiction

Cover Photo: An image of a large hawk soaring above the trees while a baby hawk is one the ground.

Fiction | Short Story

The Hawk

You are thirteen so, of course, I am convinced I still have some say over you.

Oct 08, 2021

Cover Photo: An illustration of four glamorous and racially-diverse women, shrouded in green smoke

Fiction | Short Story

Other Emily

“Commerce!” Emily shouted. “The hoarding and ceding and exchange of power. I see no clearer path into the souls of human people.”

Brennan Kilbane

Oct 01, 2021

Cover Photo: An illustration of a young boy holding up a camera, lens turned on women in colorful clothing; behind him, the shadows of their missing sons loom

Fiction | Short Story

The Last of the Boys

That’s the problem with photographs, isn’t it? They remind you who is missing.

Sep 24, 2021