Prose

PHOTO / KAT WILSON Arkansas novelist and playwright Padma Viswanathan is the recipient of the 2017 Porter Fund Literary Prize. The Por...

INTERVIEW / JENNY VOS PHOTO / KODY FORD Each year the Books in Bloom literary festival in Eureka Springs brings a bevy of authors to Northw...

The Writers’ Colony in the Victorian arts village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas is offering three fellowships that include a two-week stay f...

WORDS & PHOTOS / KODY FORD Those who declare print dead, should have been at 10th annual Books in Bloom Literary Festival in Eureka Spri...

WORDS / CHELSIE MARTIN Come rain or shine, the Carroll and Madison Public Library Foundation will sponsor its 10th Books in Bloom Literary F...

INTERVIEW / SCHULER BENSON Eric Shonkwiler is an extensive nomad, having lived and worked in every contiguous U.S. time zone, and finding hi...

WORDS / JAY JENNINGS ILLUSTRATION / CHAD MAUPIN Very few Arkansans go away and stay away. Sam Walton stuck around even as his retail operati...

WORDS / TAYLOR GLADWIN Gus Carlson is Northwest Arkansas’s mastermind behind the Ozark folk comic, Eve of the Ozarks. Eve is a wide-eyed e...

WORDS / KODY FORD ILLUSTRATION / BETH POST “If these yarns were trash – and millions of parents must have regarded them as such R...

WORDS / KODY FORD Fayetteville has long had a strong literary tradition with writers like Miller Williams, Ellen Gilchrist and the late Fran...