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Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Jack Ortiz

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Jack Ortiz received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the August Derleth Prize. “They’re More Afraid of You” is his first published story. … … … … … CH: How did you first hear about Crazyhorse? JO: When I was an undergrad, I was researching fiction contests, and I submitted to...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Finalist Mi Jin Kim

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Mi Jin Kim is a Los Angeles native who currently lives and writes in Seoul, South Korea. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan, where she was a recipient of the Henfield Prize and the FrederickBusch Prize. “The Prince” is her first published story. CH: How did you first hear...

Chasing a Storm: Review of Tariq Shah's Whiteout Conditions

September 16, 2020 | blog, book reviews
Lauren Cortese Whiteout Conditions 115 pp. Two Dollar Radio. $14.99 Tariq Shah’s debut novel, Whiteout Conditions, follows childhood friends Ant and Vince on a pilgrimage through a Midwest snowstorm to a funeral for Vince’s young cousin, Ray, who died under violent, unexpected circumstances. This is Ant’s first trip back to the Chicago suburbs in years...

Mapping One's Creation: Review of Bruce Snider's "Fruit"

June 3, 2020 | blog, book reviews
By Joshua Garcia FruitBy Bruce Snider96 pp. Wisconsin Poetry Series. $16.95 Nearly a decade since Paradise, Indiana reflected on youth like a fever dream of home, grief, and first love, Bruce Snider’s third collection, Fruit, remains mindful of the past yet looks unflinchingly forward. The title, ripe as it is with suggestion—offspring, the temptation to original sin, an...

Stephanie Burt & Carmen Giménez Smith: Questions for Consideration

April 13, 2020 | blog, news
Ivy Keller (Poetry, ’21) As part of its annual reading series, Crazyhorse welcomed esteemed poets and co-editors of The Nation’s poetry section, Carmen Giménez Smith and Stephanie Burt on February 27. Giménez Smith and Burt each read a selection their work and held a joint Q&A session at the College of Charleston. First-year MFA poetry...

Landon Houle's Living Things

November 13, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Matt Manco Living ThingsBy Landon Houle232 pp. Red Hen Press. $16.95 Black Creek, South Carolina, its residents believe, is the type of town people come to because bad things don’t happen there. But when a young woman is found dead in the creek, that belief is challenged. Landon Houle’s debut novel, Living Things, guides...

The Moment, the Memory: Review of Alison Rollins's "Library of Small Catastrophes"

October 29, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Dakota Reed Library of Small CatastrophesBy Alison C. Rollins93 pp. Copper Canyon Press. $16.00 Alison Rollins’s debut collection of poetry serves as a sharp examination of womanhood and blackness, one that deals with such complex and multi-faceted components by inviting you into the figurative library she has created within her poems. Readers are granted...

Sabrina Orah Mark: Writing in the Surreal

October 24, 2019 | blog, news
Lauren Cortese (Fiction, ’21) and Samantha Watson (Fiction, ’21) Writer Sabrina Orah Mark shared her work at the College of Charleston on Thursday, October 17th. Second-year MFA fiction student Matt Manco introduced Mark. He described the “creation, anxiety, bravery, history, and persistence” that meet and form her “works of condensed brilliance.” Manco highlighted the surreal...

New Wave, New Girl: A Review of "Sea Monsters" by Chloe Aridjis

October 22, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Ren Jones Sea MonstersBy Chloe Aridjis130 pp. Catapult. $23.00 Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis is, above all else, a tale of teenage disillusionment. With its plot woven between a New Wave rendition of Mexico City and the mythically charged seaside town of Zipolite, Sea Monsters follows Luisa—a seventeen-year-old girl whose personality exudes a Siouxsie...

Oliver de la Paz: Navigating Unspoken Worlds

October 3, 2019 | blog, news
By Joshua Garcia (Poetry ’21) and Dakota Reed (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, September 26th, visiting poet Oliver de la Paz read from his new book, The Boy in the Labyrinth, at the College of Charleston for the first Crazyhorse reading of the academic year. Second year poetry MFA student Gardner Dorton, who introduced de la...

Navigating Reality: Review of Molly Reid’s "The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary"

September 24, 2019 | blog, book reviews
By Grace Timko The Rapture Index: A Suburban BestiaryBy Molly Reid220 pp. BOA Editions. $17.00 The stories in Molly Reid’s debut collection, The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, resonate with readers through an overarching sense of nostalgia and moments of discomfort. Reid has the distinct ability to navigate dualities—the real and fabulist—both in theme and in style....

Jen Julian on Otherworldly Light

April 2, 2019 | blog, news
By Grace Timko (Fiction ’20) and Rosie Mary Jane Kopman (Fiction ’20) On Thursday, March 7th, Jen Julian read from her newly published short story collection, Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses, for the fourth and final installment of the 2018-19 Crazyhorse Reading Series. Second year fiction student Christine McSwain delivered the introduction: “In Jen Julian’s work,...