Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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October 13, 2018

Where’s Papa going with that axe?

By Laura Maylene Walter

As part of my work at Cleveland Public Library, I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Melissa Sweet, the author and illustrator of Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White. Sweet […]

November 29, 2015

Looking. Looking Again (Part One)

By Cody Walker

Earlier this month I spent some time at the University of Washington’s Marine Station in Friday Harbor. The occasion was the UW’s fourth annual Poetry and Science Symposium; a terrific […]

December 9, 2012

Short Takes: By the Letter, By the Draft

By Andrew David King

August Wilson: “Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are […]