Writing

WORDS / KODY FORD Every writer needs a place to work. For some, it’s an old desk in a quiet room with a locked door. For others, it’s th...

WORDS / CAROLINE BEIMFORD PHOTO / MATT MCKEE “Sometimes books are a very comfortable way to talk about uncomfortable things,” writes Loi...

INTERVIEW / KODY FORD PHOTO / MARTY SHUTTER Robert Ford is a man of many talents. The page. The stage. Even the flute. Born in Scotland but...

INTERVIEW / NICHOLAS CLARO PHOTO / KAT WILSON There’s a big difference between being talked to, and talked at. I encountered the former a ...

Literary heavyweights Lois Lowry and Zadie Smith are coming to Northwest Arkansas this fall.  True Lit: Fayetteville’s Literary Festival ...

We want your words – send us your favorite short story.  Please email a MS Word or TXT file to editorial (at ) idleclassmag (dot) com...

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 & PHOTO / KODY FORD The obituary of the independent bookstore was written years ago by pundits and media outlets happy to push the...

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