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Colin Winnette, author of Users (Soft Skull Press, 2023), in a recent installment of “Ten Questions.” 

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Microfiction up at X-Ray lit :) Thanks so much to the editors there for letting this strange little piece live!

—Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

North Bonneville Speedway Road, Utah (May 2024). On the way to the Flats.

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Announcing our July/August issue! Inside you’ll find our 23rd annual #FirstFiction roundup; Brian Gesko’s profile of Kate Zambreno, author of The Light Room; and Esmé Weijun Wang’s guidance on how to build a writing practice while living with limitations: http://at.pw.org/JulyAugust2023

Colin Winnette, author of Users (Soft Skull Press, 2023), in a recent installment of “Ten Questions.” 

I’m the 2023 Mackey Chair in Creative Writing. This is the door to my pad. The drawings are by my students who are helping me understand what happens when people who quit drawing a long time ago start up again. These drawings were done with eyes closed. Three colors, one minute per color, one drawing right on top of the other. My instruction is “Close your eyes and draw a full human skeleton in one minute. Don’t peek! Go!! “. Somehow a very lively drawing shows up with so much more going for it than an accurate representation of a skeleton. And the students were surprised. And also happy. And they were interested in their classmates drawings in a new way. Drawing itself has an energy that transforms the mood of the class. If I’m studying anything right now, that’s it. What is this energy that drawing can bring to a classroom? It feels vital. And it brings about a state of mind that is perfect for writing stories. At the center of both drawing and writing is something my teacher, Marilyn Frasca, called an Image. Once you know what that feels like— to be in contact with something that is in contact with you, there seems to be a natural way forward that isn’t thinking. It’s something else. And it’s something good. #beloitcollege #Mackey https://www.instagram.com/p/CoPtOncO81v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Salton Sea, California