The Haberdasher

We’re currently accepting submissions for our Summer 2018 issue (due out May 2018). Continue reading →

Feast your eyes on these fiendish tales that we found frightfully entertaining…   Say My Name By: Alexander Nachaj You already know my name. I am the whisper in the dark. The subtle clatter from the downstairs kitchen when it’s late at night and you’re home alone the little creak in the foyer after your … Continue reading →

These 13 word tragedies had us dreading what would happen next.   At Peace By: Rachel Morris Mom always felt one with nature. So I buried her in the backyard.   Finger Painting By: Emilie Barnes       “You said we could finger paint.” She smiled, pouring blood on my hand.   Not to … Continue reading →

Our Halloween Haiku category summoned your most horrible poetry.  We found the following sickeningly sweet.   Blood Thirst By: Natalie Walker   Wine-stained red lips thirst to drink a glass of his blood. He should have swiped left   Natal Teeth By: Katherine Montalto   Born on the thirteenth with a full head or hair … Continue reading →

Here it is, the best of the Trick-or-Treat Poetry. We created grab bags of words, creepy fun words, like spectre, enchant, hobgoblin and havoc, and entrants used them to build poems. Continue reading →

This year, the YCLAC received over 90 submissions for our 3rd Annual Halloween Writing Contest. The fame of the contest continues to spread (like a CDC escapee!) Continue reading →

In your fictional world, you can reward the just, punish the wicked, and mock the foolish. Good stuff that! Continue reading →

“My journal is at the heart of my writing practice…” Continue reading →

Reading poetry is not like watching a film or reading the average novel. I’d say it’s more like facing an opponent with a katana; there’s something about a three-foot razor blade that sharpens one’s attention. Good poetry sharpens the reader’s attention. Continue reading →

There are many forms collaboration can take, and that’s the exciting thing about it: You have no idea where it’s going to go, and the product is often much better than what either writer might have done alone. Continue reading →

Advice to writers: read widely, write regularly, edit ruthlessly. Continue reading →

Traveling and playing songs that we’ve created allows us to put something into others’ worlds that wasn’t there before, and we get to put something into our world that wasn’t there before. Considering the art, the hospitality and support, the camaraderie, the simplicity, and the freedom that all paint the touring picture, I think it’s humanity at its best. Continue reading →

Expect rejection, embrace rejection. Continue reading →

On behalf of our sister publication, The Haberdasher is proud to announce that Flumes is now accepting submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, children’s and young adult literature, as well as art & photography. The Spring 2016 submission period ends April 25th. For more details, including guidelines for each genre, or to submit, please visit: … Continue reading →

by Erica Valdez For the fourth installment of our WordSpring 2015 interviews, The Haberdasher caught up with novelist Zu Vincent. National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson says Vincent’s novel The Lucky Place, “takes your breath—then gently hands it back to you again,” and Vincent’s annual holiday fiction, published by the Chico News & Review, is … Continue reading →

by Jasmeen Bassi I had the great pleasure of interviewing Erin McCabe, author of the novel I Shall Be Near To You, which follows Rosetta, a strong willed woman who disguises herself as a man to fight alongside her husband in the Civil War. There aren’t enough strong female heroines in literature. Especially, when it … Continue reading →

by Alexis Butcher In the second installment of our WordSpring 2015 interviews, The Haberdasher is pleased to spotlight award-winning poet Ken Letko. Letko will be leading both a poetry and a publishing workshop at this year’s conference, on Saturday, April 25th. When he isn’t being nominated for the Pushcart Prize by both The North American … Continue reading →

by Jodi Scheer Hernandez Spring Session has started and things are busy for author, speaker, teacher, Pam Houston. Though her moments to give away are likely rare, Pam was gracious in accepting my invitation for an email interview in anticipation of her upcoming appearance at the WordSpring creative writing conference later this month. I became … Continue reading →

    As writers, why should we attend writing conferences? Are they worth our time and money? Can conference workshops help us resolve a technical issue or figure out how to get our work to people who will publish it? Or, are conferences just another way to procrastinate and avoid putting fingers to keyboard or … Continue reading →

by Jeanne Walleman Residing in northern California has a maddening amount of rewards, and one of them is the wealth of poets and writers (actually, artists of all kinds) living around us. In the last of our interviews with WordFire 2014 presenters, poet Susan Wooldridge speaks of poetry, living in northern California, and writing. Wooldridge … Continue reading →

by Pavan Atwal Talented writers are easy to find, but writers who are talented and have an immeasurable amount of passion are much more difficult to come by. I received the honor of interviewing the accomplished and intelligent Zu Vincent on April 21, 2014 . Vincent has written numerous short stories and novels, including her … Continue reading →

by Chloe Butcher Kathryn Gessner will be a poetry workshop leader at the Wordfire 2014 creative writing conference at Butte College, Saturday, April 26. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas, and then moved to the west coast to become a teacher at Shasta College. Gessner’s poetry has appeared in … Continue reading →

by Pavan Atwal On April 18, 2014 I was given the honor of interviewing the brilliant Carrie Gordon Watson, who will be leading the “I Know Vampires, And You, Sir, Are No Vampire” workshop at this year’s Wordfire Conference on April 26th at Butte College. Watson has many accomplishments under her belt, with many more to … Continue reading →

by Chloe Butcher The other day I had the pleasure of conversing with the extremely talented Dan O’Brien. He is an editor, writer, and publisher. Saturday, April 26, O’Brien will be a workshop leader and panelist at the WordFire creative writing conference, hosted by Butte College. Before O’Brien became the founder and editor-in-chief of Amalgam … Continue reading →