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

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August 27, 2018

In Defense of Flat Characters

By Aatif Rashid

Every fiction writer who’s taken even an intro to creative writing class is likely aware of E.M. Forster’s famous distinction between flat and round characters, from his book of lectures […]

February 15, 2009

A Forum of Chance

By Jay Thompson

We can’t walk on our heels back out the front door of pleasure’s experience. I’m denied the mercy of undoing in myself anything that’s pleased me. But one granted mercy: […]