After quite a bit of planning, testing, and replanning, we will be launching a new version of the website within the net couple months. We hope to re-engage our readers, contributors, and editors in robust artistic conversations about the work, our lives, and the situations we find ourselves in. We're still here. We're still working. … Continue reading New things are coming!
Author: thomcaraway
I am a poet, professor, publisher, and editor living in Spokane with my wife and two children.
I like my garden, but wish the eggplant grew better.
Announcing a Guest Poetry Editor
I've been blessed to work with a stable lineup of genre editors since I took over as editor-in-chief of Rock & Sling in 2010. We've changed our font more times than we've changed editors. Both Laurie Lamon (poetry) and Julie Riddle (nonfiction) have been on board as long as I have. For the next two … Continue reading Announcing a Guest Poetry Editor
Valuing Our Roots: A Reflection on Charlottesville
by Katherine Karr-Cornejo The phases of my life have offered many opportunities and challenges, and when I think of my years in graduate school, I remember a time of my life that I value, but that I’m also glad I’ve completed. The intense and all-encompassing focus on my professional training and development, to the exclusion … Continue reading Valuing Our Roots: A Reflection on Charlottesville
Special issue: Call for Submissions
As we move toward the reality of Donald Trump’s pending presidency, artists are responding. Rock & Sling wants to produce a cross-section of that work, to be released at AWP in DC, two weeks after the Inauguration. We are looking for any kind of artistic reaction to the election and the weeks that have followed. … Continue reading Special issue: Call for Submissions
Just released: Issue 11.1
Rock & Sling Goes to AWP, part 3
by Jenn Rudsit A book fair full of indie presses, literary journals, MFA programs, and tables covered in piles upon piles of books: paradise. Mingling and talking to the 10,000+ people attending and staffing said book fair: my own personal hell. Believe it or not, I hate small talk. My usual response to large crowds … Continue reading Rock & Sling Goes to AWP, part 3
Rock & Sling Goes to AWP, part 2
By Joshua Tuttle My second AWP was even better than my first. Last year I was extremely nervous to explain what “a journal of witness” means to people standing at our booth. I was new to Rock & Sling, and I was at the conference with a group of seniors who had been part of … Continue reading Rock & Sling Goes to AWP, part 2
Rock & Sling Goes to AWP
by Lauren Klepinger As the end of spring break loomed nearer, I couldn’t help but wonder how I would survive the next week. I’d spent eight leisurely days padding around my suburban home, adding on to the carefree first draft of a novel, eating home-cooked meals, and binge-watching Parks and Rec. (Homework? There’s a six-hour … Continue reading Rock & Sling Goes to AWP
Artist’s Statement, Heather Gwinn
The artist for issue 10.2 is Heather Gwinn. In a contemporary version of an old story, we stumbled across her work accidentally. One of our editorial assistants, Holli Steinmetz, discovered Heather's illustrations on Facebook, and tagged me in the comments. I investigated Heather's website, and found, along with a collection of really beautiful art, an … Continue reading Artist’s Statement, Heather Gwinn
Contributor Note, Katie Manning
From issue 10.2, on shelves next week, is Katie Manning. For the past three years, my primary writing project has been a collection of poems with the working title All That Remains. This project began because I was tired of people taking language from the Bible out of context and using it as a weapon … Continue reading Contributor Note, Katie Manning
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