Tag: Fiction

A short story about a mysterious ailment

A new anthology of politically engaged science fiction calls readers to reshape the world.

They knew that he came from overseas and that all he knew was digging holes.

*Art in its many forms slices through ideology and approaches truth better than any argument, probably because, in the end, art tries to find the heart of the matter rather than the brain of it.

Home n casa1 f; (for old people) residencia f de ancianos; (native land) patria

The end of contract supper starts out like a normal meal in a normal restaurant, but then Smiley hails the waiter and the five of us closest to him realize it’s on.

This issue of Briarpatch features the winners of our second annual Writing in the Margins creative writing contest.

It’s not clear why how to be lonely is this way, but it’s certain it wants a tool to dig.

How to Get Along With Women is a finely written collection exploring the ways our identities, our most intimate relationships, and our experiences can be shaped by the world we inhabit, a world mapped by dynamics of power.

Briarpatch books columnist Yutaka Dirks caught up with our creative writing contest judges to talk about the writing life and finding the balance between the personal and the political as an author.