A Meeting of Wills

An Interview with William Giraldi By William Mercier Jr. I was given the amazing opportunity to interview William Giraldi, author of Busy Monsters, a novel that came out at the end of this past summer.  Giraldi was here almost exactly a year ago.  In this interview, I get to talk with him about family, reading, [...]

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Chester College Visiting Writers Series Features Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson will be the feature reader in the Fall Visiting Writers Series at Chester College of New England this week. Stephen Wicks, a junior creative writing major at the college will open the event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, in Powers 29. An assistant professor of writing and literature, Anderson joined the Chester College faculty [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Jon Sindell

Fig Tree Gazing Morton Vickery needed a friend. Not a wifely friend, he had one of those, nor a soft-handed friend for discussing the market, there were columns of those in his accountancy firm. What Morton dreamed of, as he stared in the mirror and pressed palms together to make his pecs quicken like tiny [...]

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Editors’ Choice: John Randall Williams

Paolo The brittle leather valise in the attic had been brown and supple once, like the flesh of my youth.  Now wrinkled and stiff, it still resembles its owner.  My children had sold the farm to save their mother’s estate.  I tried to fight them, but age softens the spit and scratch of indignation.  Old [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Melody N. Akbari

Orange Blossoms 2:18 am. I’ve been in here long enough to be able to guess hours and minutes accurately. My name is inconsequential. There is no need for familiarity between us. 2:20 am. I can hear someone screaming. I have lived in a white square room for the past 2 years. They put me in [...]

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Editors’ Choice: Lucian Childs

Hit Me Back “You what?” Thomas’ fingers trembled slightly against his khaki shorts. Robin Lapointe blew a string of cigarette smoke through taut lips. “I made it all up.” Thomas couldn’t bring himself to look at her: dirty, lime-green sweats; oily hair flat against a face as pale as canning wax. He examined the small [...]

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Janke & Glasser Close Out Chester College Fall Visiting Writers Series

On Wednesday, December 8, at 6 p.m. in Powers 29, join not one but two fabulous writers for the final event of this semester’s visiting writing series! The first featured artist that day will be Christopher Janke. Among other things, Janke is the owner of Suzee’s Third St. Laundry in TMFA and the senior editor [...]

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Eric Pinder Interviews and Book Signing

Chester College of New England’s instructor of writing and literature Eric Pinder will be interviewed on Book Swap Café, for Concord TV Channel 22, in a program to be recorded on December 15. He also will be interviewed live on the Arkansas-based internet radio program WeatherBrains on March 29 at 8:30 pm Central Daylight Time [...]

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Chester College of New England Student published in Collective Fallout

Chester College student Kelsey McCarthy’s short story “Coyote Smile” has been selected as a finalist for Collective Fallout‘s Delfino Prize for Queer Genre Fiction. Her story will be published in the January 2010 issue of the magazine.

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Final Week of Senior Shows

Between November 15 and November 23, the final four of Chester College of New England’s graduating seniors will be show their work from the past two semesters. The opening reception will be held at 7 p.m., November 18, 2009 in the Wadleigh Library Gallery. The show is free and open to the public. The event [...]

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