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This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Familiar by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Madhouse Press 2024). The hag stands in moonlight torn by its passage through blinds. Resisting the urge to wake A, who’ll say no one’s here, I pull covers tighter as she explains, she’s traveling to when that boy led us into … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Familiar by Luiza…
This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Familiar by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Madhouse Press 2024). I dream a campfire ringed with logs behind a now derelict playground, and at my feet, patent leather shoes, curl of satin, child’s dress.15 I lower each, watch flames lick, obscure. Then I see a woman, a stranger, … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Familiar by…
This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Familiar by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Madhouse Press 2024). Not again, I think as I wake into dream—braid dangling like a rat snake over my face—scream9 and scoot to the back of the bunk. My poor roommate (spared until now) screams too as the hag mutters what … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Familiar by Luiza…
This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Familiar by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (Madhouse Press 2024). I dream a night forest4 — leaves lit by the moonas bats flit above—mudsplattered calves burn,but a light glows ahead,so I follow until I standat the edge of a clearing,watch myself—younger,but clearly me—crouchbefore a fire, feed clothesworn that … Continue reading The…
With over 20 years of writing under his belt, former SAFTA resident Darren C. Demaree breaks down his poetic style, themes, and inspirations with Sundress intern Rachel Bulman. In an interview based on his two-decade spanning collection Now Flourish Northern Cardinal (Selected Poems 2005-2025), Demaree discusses his process and stylistic choices throughout the included poems, aptly … Continue…
How To Steal a Train by M.C Shmidt is a humorous collection of ten short stories that portray human nature. These stories explore rebuilding relationships, confronting oneself, how people can cling to human connection, and the varying aspects of daily life. Schmidt depicts these tales in a witty and relatable manner that encourages readers to … Continue reading How to Steal a Train Review by…
My bookshelf is not that of a highly sophisticated scholar, but it is a shelf full of dreams, magic, and fulfilled promise to a little girl with a big imagination. I love books that take you on an adventure and build worlds in your mind, books that make you think about connection and the experience … Continue reading Project Bookshelf: Miranda Spurlock → The post Project Bookshelf: Miranda…
When I tell people about my degree in English Literature, I’m often met with confusion. It shows itself in different ways: the more subtle knitting of eyebrows or an incredulous look. But it often shows itself verbally, for it seems that people have an immense capacity for curiosity that includes, “Do you want to be … Continue reading Meet Our New Intern: Alexandra Bautista → The post Meet Our New…
This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Otherlight by Jill Mceldowney (YesYes Books 2023). I WOULD SAY I wake up stillthinking you are alive—my body gets used to that fogas if you, as if the dead are nothing morethan bones to the body. That pain is deep—I will go deeper.I stayed awake … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Otherlight by Jill Mceldowney → The post…
This feature, chosen by Guest Editor Catherine Garbinsky, is from Otherlight by Jill Mceldowney (YesYes Books 2023). DYNAMITE A ghost leaves your body and never returns—this is a lie. A person has to earnthe right to forget. What if, from now on,I subscribe to that specific turn-of-the-century-beliefthat illness is caused by spirits— use this to … Continue reading The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed:…
