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An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner Catherine Bai

InterviewOctober 31, 2022

In the story, it’s food and drink that similarly offer the main character a bodily connection to her heritage, even when linguistic and cultural ties have been eroded. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner Preeti Vangani

InterviewOctober 26, 2022

Writing is, and will always be a subversive act. And what keeps me going is to keep reminding myself that the work itself, to create, is a reward unlike… More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: CK Kane

InterviewOctober 24, 2022

Anything that feels like you shouldn’t write about, go toward. It will find you again no matter what, so you might as well take  charge. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner RZ Baschir

InterviewOctober 21, 2022

For me, horror and the surreal come from the same source: a psychic terror, a fear of the dark, a fixation on the devouring mouth, the thing that’s not… More

graphic for PEN Dau Prize best debut short stories of 2022

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Seth Wang

InterviewOctober 19, 2022

I’m not interested in the trauma plot. But I’m very interested in the way people use trauma and identity as an apologia for shitty behavior–especially my favs, cowardice and… More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Oyedotun Damilola Muees

InterviewOctober 17, 2022

The people in my story only had themselves to make their community better, just like the people where I served. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Erin Connal

InterviewOctober 14, 2022

I wanted to explore the slippery space that misbehaving as a group allows us. The story is about a group who does something terrible but the individuals in the… More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Edward Salem

InterviewOctober 12, 2022

Translating can make a story overly accessible in a way that’s patronizing. I’d rather have the reader experience the unfamiliarity of being in a foreign place. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Cal Shook

InterviewOctober 10, 2022

something I hope readers might hold onto is the current of agency that runs through this story, even if the woman at its center seems often adrift. More

An Interview with PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize Winner: Patch Kirschenbaum

InterviewOctober 7, 2022

It can sometimes be remarkably difficult as a fiction writer to escape the feeling that you are writing into the abyss. More

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