The Undercurrent: Reviews, Craft Advice, Perspective

The Sounding Board

The Gift

Erin Winseman -
For my first birthday with you, you gift me The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. You know I’m a poet and have been reading each...

Craft & Career

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Reviews

Some Girls Have All the Luck, Some Girls Have All the Pain

Anna Mantzaris -
The week I read Emily May’s essay collection Some Girls, I visit the Wayne Thiebaud exhibit “Art Comes From Art” at the Legion of...

Zest!

Tupperware

Mariam Vahradyan -
There are three houses. One, two, three. All next to each other in one straight line. A mini neighborhood just for us, just for...

In Sickness and In Health

The Art of Letting Go

Rosie Sultan -
I followed our moving van over Boston's Tobin Bridge from Gloucester, Massachusetts. I was newly divorced; my four-year-old boy was belted into his car...

Generations

Dinner Party

Daphne Biener -
“Dinner at 7?” Kristin texts and out of habit I find the thumbs-up emoji and hit send. But then it’s 6:50 and Acadia calls...

Essay & Memoir

Without a Trace: A Life with Oil

Cathy Schen -
1. My father was an oil man whose career coincided with the rise of oil and the beginning of its decline. I grew up in...

When Another Brick Clicks Into Place

Quintin Collins -

My First Breath of America

Dr. Jamal Ali Hussein -

Slick

Emma Weiss -

Some Girls Have All the Luck, Some Girls Have All the Pain

Anna Mantzaris -

Fiction

Mărțișor

Carrie Messenger -
Olesea Sirbu was a big girl, fata mare, and had been for years. She was fata mare because at 23, she was about to...

The Essentials

Anita Harag -

Happy Friday

Abhijith Ravinutala -

Night Flight to L.A.

Kent Shell -

Twinning

Jeff Hazlett -

Poetry

In Our Image

Lenora Steele -
And so it began. Permanence. Roots. Only the woman grinding wheat with her stones knows there is no such thing. She has carried more than one dead child to...

Early Onset Dementia

Lana Ayers -

Death of a Heifer

Seth Kleinschmidt -

The Wind || A Dream

John K. Kruschke -

Thank you

Lillo Way -
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Advice

Advice

Notes From a Veteran Querier

Deborah Norkin -
If you’ve written a book and want to publish through a traditional publisher, you’ll need a literary agent and to get one, you’ll need...

Further Reading