Writing – BIG OTHER

Announcing Big Other’s 2021 Pushcart Prize Nominations!

We are pleased to nominate the following writing published in Big Other in 2021 for the Pushcart Prize: Sarah…

Wear Away Light makes light; day makes day. The endless panting of the dog owes nothing to heat or…

Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood! 82, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “A word after a word…

Happy birthday, Tobias Carroll! Carroll is also an inaugural Big Other Literary Citizenship Awardee. Celebrate by reading this Carroll fiction…

Happy birthday, Cole Swensen! Celebrate by reading these Swensen poems we published in 2019!

Happy birthday, Laurie Stone! Celebrate by reading this Stone fiction we published in 2019! Letter I remember a…

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer. “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

The Descent of Louise Brooks Matches My Mood all the way back to the sad thirties westerns the progressive…

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published last year and is included in…

Twelve years ago today, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing…