Beginning is never easy for me. Some writers get all sorts of great ideas, so many they are forced to jot them down into notebooks, or scrawl them on napkins at bars. I’m not that writer, though I’ve always wanted to be. If I’m lucky I get one good idea a year, and even then…

A. M. Robinson grew up in Indiana, but now lives in New York City, where she works in the publishing industry. Vampire Crush is her first book. + How did you balance your career in publishing with your work on Vampire Crush? Where did you find time for writing? Vampire Crush was published in December…

Meghan Deans is a playwright writer lyricist who hails from the beautiful state of New York State. Her plays include The Hooks, Internet Famous, The Last Invention, Our Windmills, and also many many short plays. She’s the co-founder of Action Theater Project and a member of the Youngblood Playwrights Group at Ensemble Studio Theatre. She…

Deborah Swiss is the author of Women and the Work/Family Dilemma, Women Breaking Through: Overcoming the Final 10 Obstacles at Work, and The Male Mind at Work: A Woman’s Guide to Working with Men. Her work as a gender issues expert and consultant has received attention in Time, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business…

Kate Racculia is a writer and researcher, living the sweet life in Somerville, Mass and working on her second novel. Her first, This Must Be the Place, was published by Henry Holt & Company in summer 2010. + Do you have a day job, something you spend your time doing beyond writing books? I do.…

Joshua Allen has been publishing fiction online for as long as there has been an “online”. In the early days of the internet, when it was mostly just song lyrics and Under Construction gifs, his website Fireland became a mecca for people craving something new from this medium that hadn’t quite defined itself yet. It…

Kean Soo is the author of the Jellaby series of graphic novels and is a regular contributor and assistant editor for the FLIGHT anthologies. A former electrical engineer raised briefly in Hong Kong and currently residing in Canada, Kean’s work can be found across various media, from The Morning News to, most recently, the Machine…

Ralph Robert Moore has been publishing stories online since 1997, but he was a working writer long before he arrived on the internet. His horror, suspense, supernatural, and erotic fiction has been published in America, England, Ireland and Australia in a wide variety of literary and genre magazines and anthologies. His 2003 novel Father Figure…

Hello everyone, and thank you Steve for that introduction, you are super kind. (He truly is. It’s not even like we owe each other anything at the moment. We have both given each other 5-star reviews on Goodreads, so there are currently no outstanding debts between us.) Friends, I just feel like: what the fuck…

Here ends my month as Writer In Residence at Necessary Fiction. Thank you so much, Steve Himmer, for the opportunity and the honor. I’m pleased to have brought readers a March of excellent poems and stories written by (largely) Irish poets and writers. The entire issue can be enjoyed here. My deep thanks again to…

Dazzlingly, like tropical birds, thousands of reflections floated in the river. Green and yellow and electric blue in the inky water. Flamingo pink. It lifted the heart to see them. ‘Lifted’ isn’t the right word, Darina thought. She knew lots of words; since she’d been in school she’d been making lists of words and phrases…

I am in the habit of collecting skies, and this one is a keeper. August evening on a Siena hillside, a sky that would put you in mind of a Georgian court, all swathes of blue silk, piled powdered wigs, hints of blushing flesh. Florence was too much for me. I don’t know how the…