Hypertext Interview With Amina Gautier

January 7, 2019
By Christine Rice Amina Gautier’s collections of short fiction – At Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and most recently…

Coursing by B. Metzger Sampson

December 21, 2018
I use my hands to learn my creature, the shape of thingsbecoming. I petition her in flicks of the wrist.…

One Question: Madeleine Kunin

December 17, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Madeleine Kunin, author of COMING OF AGE: MY JOURNEY TO THE EIGHTIES, “what makes your book different…

Excerpt: Madeleine Kunin’s COMING OF AGE: MY JOURNEY TO THE EIGHTIES

December 17, 2018
By Madeleine Kunin FAT BACKS I notice other women’s backs in the swimming pool, some mottled with bean-size freckles that…

Maria Concepción by Patricia Ann McNair

December 14, 2018
This is where I found her. In His church, my church, one early winter’s morning not long ago, curled up…

Hypertext Review Excerpt

December 13, 2018
Calving By Bridget Apfeld It had been her cousin Laurie who’d taught her. Laurie sixteen, she eleven. Jessie conscious of…

Excerpt: Hosho McCreesh’s CHINESE GUCCI

December 10, 2018
By Hosho McCreesh Akira had searched the tables, searched the bright, earthy pastel walls, the giant windows and exposed industrial…

The Hidden People by Anne-Marie Oomen

December 6, 2018
The rune Fe = Wealth In Nordurardalur, one of Iceland’s northernmost regions, my beloved David and I drive from the…

Strength in Numbers: Sicilian Women on the Front Line by Anne Calcagno

December 5, 2018
Mom slumped, largely out of it, occasionally jolting up. She now blinked at the two large men laboriously, excruciatingly, hoisting…

One Question: Hosho McCreesh

December 4, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Hosho McCreesh, author of “Chinese Gucci,” “Why did you choose to make your protagonist so abrasive?” The…

Hypertext Review Excerpt

November 27, 2018
How Long Will It Take Us to Get to the Water By Barrie Jean Borich Lake Michigan is churning. Not…

The One I Hold On To by DeLon Howell

November 26, 2018
It has been many years since I played son to my father. Most of my life since the word Daddy…

Hearts of Oak by Richard Hartshorn

November 1, 2018
Ev is in my back seat for all of five minutes before she starts blowing away on her penny whistle. “That…

One Question: Terry Watkins

October 16, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Terry Watkins, author of DARLING GIRL, “Why did it take you so long to write your first…

Excerpt: Terry Watkins’s DARLING GIRL

October 16, 2018
Chapter One 1957 — Gone I am five years old the first time my mama goes away. Gramma stands in…

One Question: Barbara Monier

October 15, 2018
Hypertext asked Barbara Monier, author of Pushing The River, “What kinds of thoughts or questions do you hope your novel…

Excerpt: Barbara Monier’s PUSHING THE RIVER

October 15, 2018
“I never did this, Maddie, not with any of my four,” Billie said. “Maybe you can help her out.” And…

Hypertext Interview with Chaya Bhuvaneswar

October 9, 2018
The best short stories sweep us into their emotional undertow, deftly transport us to other worlds, dig beneath the skin…

Excerpt: Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS

October 9, 2018
Neela: Bhopal, 1984 You always trusted the forest. Here, danger can be seen and is known. The floor is layered…

Hypertext Interview With Chris Campanioni

September 28, 2018
By Christine Rice Is there a term for someone who is more than a ‘renaissance’ person? A person who excels…

Excerpt: Chris Campanioni’s DRIFT

September 28, 2018
Nobody My name is Nadié and I am nineteen years old but my agency tells clients I’m sixteen—that I, in…

Hypertext Interview with Rita Dragonette

September 18, 2018
By Christine Rice In the mid-1980s, I was assigned journalist and historian Frances FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, a book…

Excerpt: Christine Eberle’s Finding God in Irreverence

September 17, 2018
And Jesus wept. — John 11:35 The young mother in the emergency room was rushed there straight from her son’s…

ONE QUESTION: Christine Eberle

September 17, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Christine Eberle, author of FINDING GOD IN ORDINARY TIME, “Your stories are from real life; which one…

ONE QUESTION: Connor Coyne

September 9, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Connor Coyne, author of Urbantasm: The Dying City, “Why are stories about Flint, Michigan important to the…

Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM: THE DYING CITY

September 9, 2018
Almost everything had been torn down, and the shrubs and trees had been growing for so long that the block…

ONE QUESTION: Sarah Ivens

August 31, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Sarah Ivens, author of Forest Therapy, “What question do you wish you’d been asked about your work?”…

Excerpt: Sarah Iven’s Forest Therapy

August 31, 2018
Fall in Love Autumn is the season when the world mellows out and takes stock on what has already been…

Excerpt: Rita Dragonette’s THE FOURTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER

August 30, 2018
Lottery Night They had decided they would all watch the lottery drawing at David’s dorm, since that’s where most of…

ONE QUESTION: Rita Dragonette

August 29, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Rita Dragonette, author of The Fourteenth of September, “Why did you feel it was important to tell a…
[ivory-search id="24429" title="AJAX Search Form"]

Categories

MORE FASCINATING DETAILS

About

Masthead

Header Image by Kelcey Parker Ervick

Spot illustration Fall/Winter 2024 by Waringa Hunja

Spot illustrations Fall/Winter 2023 issue by Dana Emiko Coons

Other spot illustrations courtesy Kelcey Parker Ervick, Sarah Salcedo, & Waringa Hunja

Copyright @ 2010-2025, Hypertext Magazine & Studio, a 501c3 nonprofit.

All rights reserved.