Journal Archives - Newfound

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Her Beautiful City: An Interview with Ramona Reeves

Her Beautiful City: An Interview with Ramona Reeves Karin Cecile Davidson The characters of Ramona Reeves’s debut story collection, It Falls Gently All Around, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize (University of Pittsburgh, 2022), lead us through the…

Flash • Flux

Flux Patricia Q. Bidar 1. On a Sleepless Night, Your Slumbering Spouse Beside You Ever think about how another student from the film department introduced us, and how I started calling you late at the adult theater you managed and…

Author Kaitlin Murphy-Knudsen, Fiction: "Everyday Conversation", Newfound Journal, December 2022

Fiction • Kaitlin Murphy-Knudsen

Everyday Conversation Kaitlin Murphy-Knudsen MONDAY iPhone SE, IMEI 395728603861856: We are agreed on long-term partnership then? Because my guy’s ready. If we want to shift screen time to a longer-term parenting anxiety circuit for upwards of 20 years—parenting blogs…

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Visual Arts • Nova

Nova Joseph A. Miller Joseph A. Miller is an Associate Professor of Art at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo State, where he has taught drawing and painting since 1997. Miller’s work is in numerous public and private collections, and has been…

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Poetry • Shoals Suite

Shoals Suite G.C. Waldrep These poems are sited at Glendale Upper and Lower Shoals in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, on the Appalachian edge. They were written as part of Wofford College’s Long-Term Environmental Reflection initiative, sponsored by Wofford’s Goodall Environmental…

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Interviews • Andrea Lee

Red Island House: An Interview with Andrea Lee Gary Percesepe Andrea Lee is the author of five books, including the National Book Award–nominated memoir Russian Journal; the novels Red Island House, Lost Hearts in Italy, and Sarah Phillips; and…

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Fiction • Flor

Flor Eric Odynocki Flor Uribe Nowak hates her name. It is a jumble of vowels and consonants that forces the tongue to jump in the mouth. Her last names clash like two dissonant pianos never able to harmonize. Kindergarten…

Photographs of co-authors Hannah Butcher, Kendall Clarke, and Matthew Forsythe.

Flash • Pinprick

Pinprick by Hannah Butcher, Kendall Clarke, and Matt Forsythe A pinprick of guilt leads to stabbings. Corina shivered beneath the layers—a sheet, a quilt, and a calico blanket her great-grandmother had stitched. Perspiration gathered on her forehead, beads of…

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Interviews • heidi andrea restrepo rhodes and Ae Hee Lee

“Maybe the World Had to End So We Could Finally Love”: An Apocalyptic Dream in Letters (Interview with Ae Hee Lee) heidi andrea restrepo rhodes Born in South Korea, raised in Peru, Ae Hee Lee currently lives in the United…

Interviews • Claire Oleson

Claire Oleson is a writer hailing from Grand Rapids Michigan. She’s a 2019 grad of Kenyon College, where she studied English and Creative Writing. Her work has been published by the Kenyon Review online, the University of Kentucky’s graduate literary…

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Transgressions of Place in Poetry: Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl Talks Translation

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is an award-winning Icelandic writer and translator based in Ísafjörður, Iceland. Long noted as an experimental poet, he has become one of Iceland’s foremost prose writers, and has translated over a dozen books into

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Prism of Poetry: An Interview with Illustrator and Designer LK James

LK James is an illustrator and designer based in Atlanta. LK does layout design and cover illustration for Newfound’s chapbooks. PATRYCJA HUMIENIK: Tell me about where you’re from and where you’re based now? LK JAMES: I grew up in…

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