Notes on the Phantom Tollbooth
by Taylor Manigoult My literary childhood just started this summer when I read The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis for the first time. After that, I felt whimsical, intrigued, and also resentful of my mother for keeping me away from these fantasy worlds. When I was a child she fed me the folktales of African […]
Rabble
The Poictesme staff has started work on our 2nd issue of our Fall chapbook. Last year,we published the chapbook Cobblestone(s), an architecture-themed collection of prose, poetry and illustration. This year, we have decided to call the chapbook Rabble, paying homage to the novelist James Branch Cabell.
Illustrating Science
interview by Cyrus Nuval photography by John Dijulio Skye Young’s sketchbooks are filled with diagrams. Alongside the messy sketches of buildings and the backs of people’s heads, there are plants, animal and insect parts and other objects, drawn with vivid detail, and labelled, like a textbook. There are organs and bones meticulously re-created on paper.
Notes From a Film Writing Student
by Alex Carrigan My last semester at VCU was what I considered “my easy semester.” I had just finished all the requirements for my major, and I had to finish a few more for my minor before graduating. Because of this, I took this time to expand my skills as a writer. I picked an […]
Why I Write
interview of Christopher Sloce by Isabella Call | photography by John Dijulio This year, I’ve turned into a weirdly superstitious writer.