Author Archives: Jesse Goolsby

Author Archives: Jesse Goolsby

Essay Now Out in Sycamore Review

My latest essay “Free: Your Purchase if Mount Lassen Erupts While Ordering” is now out in the beautiful Sycamore Review. Check out the amazing cover image: Special thanks goes out to Brandon Lingle and the crew in my non-fiction class last semester at Florida State, all of whom had smart and helpful comments during the drafting of this essay. This issue of SR is really dynamite. I’m thrilled to appear with so many dynamic artists. … Continued

Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts Residency

What great news in early March: while attending the way-too-much-fun AWP in Seattle I received news that I’d been awarded a distinguished fellowship from the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts for a residency in May! I’m honored and thrilled to be headed to the far north reaches of Georgia for some writing time in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Hambidge residency looks amazing: check it out HERE.

“Anchor and Knife” Up at Narrative Magazine

I’m so thrilled to have my latest piece “Anchor and Knife” now up at Narrative Magazine. Check it out HERE. Many, many thanks to Robert Olen Butler who encouraged my redreaming a few edits to the original draft. I”m very grateful for his guidance as well as the great team at Narrative, especially Jack Schiff and Mimi Kusch.

Latest Story Up at The Literary Review!

I’m so thankful that The Literary Review (TLR) published my story/chapter “Pollice Verso” in their recently released Artificial Intelligence issue. Check it out here. TLR is one of my favorites because of their great international contributors and their inventive art/themed issues. This is my second piece with them: they ran “Resurrecting a Body Half” in their Rogue Idea issue.