NaNoWriMo: Trend or Training?
Writing has never come easily to me. It’s always been a delicate dance of determination and shame, shame which has also driven me to grueling bouts of revision. A story is whittled out of me with...
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Literary Sex
Linda Downing Miller shares thoughts from her MFA program reading. One of the benefits of an MFA program for me has been the opportunity to read recommended works with an eye toward particular aspects...
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A Few Thoughts on the Nature of Earned Risk in Fiction
\ Sky diving in Dakar with Captain Jeannec Raphoz, 1976 © Dr Michel Royon / Wikimedia Commons Let’s talk about risk. Specifically, the lack of and misuse of risk in the construction of...
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An Interview with Nina Corwin
Poet, editor, literary curator, and psychotherapist are just some of Nina Corwin’s identities. She first became involved in Fifth Wednesday Journal (FWJ) in 2007, when the journal was just starting....
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On “Walter” and Writing: An Interview with Ed Winkofsky
Ed Winkofsky is a writer and lawyer in Chicago. His short story “Walter” appeared in FWJ’s fall 2012 issue. He is currently writing more Walter stories. We asked him to tell us a bit more about Walter...
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Exploring Space through Writing: An Interview with Anna Leahy & Douglas Dechow
Anna Leahy and Douglas Dechow are writers who focus mainly on science, space, and aviation. They write the Lofty Ambitions blog together and are working on a book about their experiences following the...
View ArticleWelcome to our new blog feature: “Adam Gallari on Books”
As the book review editor at Fifth Wednesday Journal, I have found it incredibly challenging to choose just three or four books to feature per issue, especially given the high number of worthy books...
View Article“The Relics of Love”: Adam Gallari’s Review of James Salter’s A Sport and A...
I will not hide the fact that James Salter is probably my favorite American writer, and that A Sport and a Pastime holds a special place in my personal pantheon. To my detriment I have modelled my own...
View ArticleMann Kann Nicht Alles Haben: A Meditation on the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski
Adam shows us in this piece how “we gravitate towards the art we see ourselves most reflected in, where there is space for us to enhance our own unique myth within the confines of the tale itself. If...
View ArticleWhy I Started Writing Screenplays
I was skeptical when I first heard someone say that the best writers today are in Hollywood working on movies and TV shows. Then again, until recently, I subconsciously bought into the notion that...
View ArticlePeter Ferry on the Importance of Teaching
I spent five years sitting in a gray, metal cubicle editing junior high school social studies textbooks. It was dreadful, but when I went to parties, girls (I was in my twenties then) were impressed,...
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Congratulations to the winners of the Fifth Wednesday Journal 2018 Editor’s...
Each year we ask an established artist in his or her field to select the recipients of our Editor’s Prize in Fiction and Poetry. The field is limited to work published in Fifth Wednesday Journal. The...
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