SwampPink Literary Journal

MANKIND

Ross White | Poetry

I Had Better Tell You Where I Am

Danielle Batalion Ola | Essays

Sharks

Susan Shepherd | Fiction

I don’t know sari woman

SJ Sindu | Poetry

Dislocated

Patrick Dundon | Flash Fiction

Year of the Yin Black Rabbit

Bo Hee Moon | Poetry

House-sitting

Jason Pfister | Fiction

blog

An Interview with Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn, author of Loose of Earth

April 12, 2024 | blog, interviews

Having grown up in the rural Bible Belt of the South as a homeschooler, I (Suz Guthmann, MFA ’25) connected deeply with Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir, Loose of Earth. Recounting her childhood in Lubbock, Texas, Blackburn brings to the light her experience of faith healings, forever chemicals, and religiously driven homeschooling. At its core, Loose…

Demand To Be Heard: A Review of Halle Hill’s Good Women

March 14, 2024 | blog, book reviews

Good Women, the debut collection of stories from Halle Hill, follows the intimate lives of Black, southern women as they navigate the socially and politically fraught waters of what it means to be, as the title suggests, “good” women.

An Interview with Chachi Hauser, author of It’s fun to be a person I don’t know

October 31, 2023 | blog, interviews

Being a Disney enthusiast and once a Cast Member at Walt Disney World, Campbell Sullivan (MFA ’24) was overjoyed to learn that this book existed. A book of personal creative nonfiction essays that interweave stories of love, loss, “disneyfication,” familial history, legacy, gender identity, place, and a personal tie to one of the founders of the Disney Corporation, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know sits with the reader long after the book is closed.

Kangkang Kovacs Interviews Shubha Sunder, author of Boomtown Girl

April 4, 2023 | blog, interviews

KK: Almost every story in this collection happens in Bangalore, and several stories deal with change. As a reader, I often get a sense of confusion and hurt juxtaposed with nostalgia. Tell us a little more about how you feel about Bangalore, its development, and the clash of generations as the writer. SS: I was…