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Interview with Kate Doyle

September 15, 2023 By Maureen Langloss

It was such a joy to interview Kate Doyle about her stunning debut collection, I Meant It Once, for Split Lip Magazine's new issue. We published “The Goldfish in the Pond at the Community Garden"—one of my favorite stories in her collection—in Split Lip a year ago … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Cara Blue Adams, Center for Fiction, Kate Doyle, Split Lip Magazine

Electrify the Not Quite Dead

December 8, 2022 By Maureen Langloss

I keep finding similar comments from readers and editors on submissions in our flash queue at Split Lip Magazine—well written, but I want another layer; this is one note; story isn’t quite resonating; needs another beat; something feels missing; this doesn’t seem finished, don’t … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Craft, Literary Magazine, Short Stories, Submissions, Writing

Best American Short Stories

November 2, 2022 By Maureen Langloss

I am thrilled to share that my story, "I Am in It," published in Alaska Quarterly Review, was noted as a Distinguished Story of 2021 in The Best American Short Stories, edited by Andrew Sean Greer with Heidi Pitlor. It was an honor simply to be included in an issue of AQR and a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading Tagged With: Best American Short Stories, Short Fiction, short story

Hop into a Car: A Week of Beginnings

February 13, 2022 By Maureen Langloss

There’s a pre-school across the street from my bedroom window with an inviting red door. I’ve been paying attention to doors and openings lately—and to this door in particular. This morning I watch a father dropping his little girl off for the day. She looks tense about it, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Latest Post Tagged With: Bryan Washington, Denis Johnson, Doors, Lydia Davis, Robert Vaughan, Windows, Writing

Sexy Motherfucker’s Mom

May 5, 2021 By Maureen Langloss

"A month after Prince died, my son, George, changed his name to Rocket and started wearing the kind of tank tops you buy in the drugstore."My latest short story, "Sexy Motherfucker's Mom," appears in the May/June 2021 issue of Kenyon Review. I started working on this story … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Essay Tagged With: Fiction, Kenyon Review, Prince, short story

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Grassy area of blithe wood on the Bard College Campus overlooking the Hudson River with a single adirondack chair in the distance and blue sky

Assembling Rabbit Hill

When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed some pens, and tore a few pages from the massive box of connected dot matrix paper that we were still working […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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