• Fiction and Poetry

    Daily Fiction

    “Insert Coin”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 14, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Color Line

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 13, 2022
    Poetry

    Life in a Distant Land: A Conversation with Poet Kathleen Rooney

    By Robert Puccinelli  October 12, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Three Months of Banana”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 12, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Ceremonies”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 11, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “The Calvino Puzzle”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 7, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    My Manservant and Me

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 6, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Bilbao–New York–Bilbao

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 5, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Sacrifices

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 4, 2022
    Poetry

    “Truth Procedure #1.” A Poem by Olena Kalytiak Davis

    By Olena Kalytiak Davis  October 3, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Life Is Everywhere

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  October 3, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Before the Burnings”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 30, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    I Fear My Pain Interests You

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 29, 2022
    Poetry

    The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

    By Chiara Barzini  September 28, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Furrows

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 28, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Shrines of Gaiety

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 27, 2022
    On Poetry

    Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

    By Joseph Earp  September 26, 2022
    Poetry

    “performing miss america at bushwig 2018, then chilling.” A Poem by Wo Chan

    By Wo Chan  September 26, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Night Ship

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 26, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Sojourn

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 23, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Tell Me I’m An Artist

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 22, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Yiyun Li on Complicated Friendships Real and Imagined

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 22, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    First Love

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 21, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Lungfish

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 20, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    Wash Day Diaries

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 19, 2022
    Poetry

    “Cagnes Sur Mer 1950.” A Poem by Jorie Graham

    By Jorie Graham  September 16, 2022
    Poetry

    “A Romantic Poem” by John Koethe

    By John Koethe  September 16, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    The Birdcatcher

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 16, 2022
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2022
    Daily Fiction

    “Grandma”

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 15, 2022
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