At Civitella, I let my mind wander—through the castle and gardens, through wide open time and newfound ideas. It’s a rarity for artists and writers to have such complete untethered freedom. When I sat down to write, I was easily pulled to the barely palpable...
Civitella gave me a wonderful length of unstructured , unobstructed time to immerse myself in existing projects, and to play and explore on the outskirts of my normal practice. I made valuable progress on my book, but also was directly inspired by artwork from fellows...
Dither and Zither Though I am rusty, once again I am thinking and making an effort at scrawling so my thoughts arrive like a glass of water and so my spirit hangs just above you like a branch in a secret garden you stumbled upon after looking at your sad investments....
Hadley Franklin is the 2023 winner of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. Her work has been published in The London Magazine, Joyland, Cagibi, The Boiler, Narrative, and others. She holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU’s Creative Writing Program, and she...
