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

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January 15, 2015

Catching Up on Bestsellers

By Brian Michael Murphy

As a kid, I never read novels, graphic or otherwise. My brother read comic books, choose-your-adventure stories, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, an assortment of Afrocentric tomes from Black Arts Plus, down […]

October 24, 2013

Tesseract Days

By Brian Michael Murphy

One of the many benefits of having a child is that I’m able to read and watch good stories on a regular basis. These stories are often short, and involve […]

August 9, 2010

The Kids Are All Bright

By Elizabeth Ames Staudt

A favorite teacher of mine tipped me early on that there would be people who would tell you never to write about childhood, especially not from the perspective of a […]