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THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH RONITA CHATTOPADHYAY
by Charlotte Hamrick Ronita Chattopadhyay’s micro chapbook, Preparing to be Wrecked, is one of five micro chapbooks in the collection Grieving Hope, edited by Diane Gottlieb for ELJ Editions, 2025. The eight pieces in Ronita’s collection explore feelings of grief and confusion as a young girl at the death of a dear friend, her first…
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UNEARTHING OUR ANCESTORS: An Interview with Jeremy B. Jones | by Jessica Cory
Jeremy B. Jones’ most recent work Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries will come out in September 2025 with Blair Publishers. Cipher follows Jeremy’s fourth great-grandfather’s encoded writings while simultaneously grappling with the author’s own role in his family, particularly as a parent. This book offers a raw, honest look at the role of…
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THE NITTY GRITTY | Interview with Katy Goforth
By Charlotte Hamrick Katy Goforth is one of my favorite fiction writers. Since I discovered her, about three years ago, I’ve felt a sisterhood with her through her stories, most of which are grounded in the rural South. She writes about Southern culture as good as any celebrated Southern writer I’ve read with a deep…
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THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH KRISTIN TENOR
By Charlotte Hamrick Kristen Tenor’s This is How They Mourn (Thirty West Publishing House) is a collection of flash and micro fiction that reads like memoir. The pieces are intimate, pulling the reader into stories of sacrifice, pain, regret but always with a foundation of love and discovery. I agree with the blurb on the…
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THE NITTY GRITTY INTERVIEW WITH MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN
By Charlotte Hamrick Maurice Carlos Ruffin is a kind human being. Although he’s incredibly busy currently with a book tour, he is always available and responsive to questions from his fans (me!) and always has an open and beaming smile which is an invitation in itself to talk. I own all three of Maurice’s books,…
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The Nitty Gritty Interview with Wilson Koewing
By Charlotte Hamrick As I was reading Jaded by Wilson Koewing, I surprised myself with how often I would think this is one of the best stories I’ve ever read, only to think the same thing at the next story. There is something in the way Wilson writes that brings to mind oral stories passed…
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The Nitty Gritty: Interview with Paul Crenshaw
By Charlotte Hamrick Paul Crenshaw and I have at least one thing in common, we both grew up in a small, conservative, rural town in the American South. But while he was still a boy in the 1980’s, I was a young adult just moved to the big city. Our experiences during that time were…
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How to get ahead (by really trying):
An interview with debut novelist K.J. Micciche By Stuart Phillips This strikes me as a painfully believable story. That was the first line of my critique of K.J. Micciche’s first manuscript from her first workshop at the Fairfield University MFA program. Our group had exchanged excerpts, and we were plowing through in an effort to…
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The Fractured Mirror – The Fabulous Fiction of Folklore: A Conversation with Icy Sedgwick
By Edward Karshner Icy Sedgwick is a blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore Podcast which explores a range of folklore and mythology including its appearance in art and film. She is working on a PhD about haunted house films. When research gets tiresome, she writes dark fantasy and gothic horror fiction. You are the…
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The Nitty Gritty: Talking with Cathy Ulrich about Small Burning Things & the writing life.
By Charlotte Hamrick Cathy Ulrich is a well-known name in the Flash Fiction world whose debut collection, Ghosts of You, was released by Okay Donkey Press in 2019 to rave reviews. Her latest collection, Small Burning Things, was recently released by Okay Donkey to the delight of her many fans. I talked to Cathy about…