catapult

  • How to Become

    Mensah Demary, Associate Web Editor for the new and exciting online literary outlet Catapult, shares his story of how he got to be where he is through a series of hilarious and depressing montages, with an overarching theme worth internalizing: “I don’t…

  • A Room of Father’s Own

    Every young’un thinks they’re a rebel. But we can only build what we know, and from the space we have. Lincoln Michel writes about family and spaces in a great new short story over at Catapult.

  • This Week in Short Fiction

    Imagine a world in the late 21st century: countries are underwater from the rising oceans, Europeans have become refugees, and a mathematical formula has been discovered that explains the entire universe, the applications of which include human flight (sans airplane)…

  • Propelling Stories

    Catapult.co, a new literary website and publishing startup powered by Electric Literature and Black Balloon Publishing, debuted online yesterday. It features, among an impressive list of fiction and nonfiction pieces, a stunning essay about living in New York by Alexander Chee.