On her site, novelist Katharine Tree takes readers behind the scenes of her writing and editing process, and shares posts about other passions like knitting and gardening.

THE FEM is a literary journal that publishes feminist, diverse, and inclusive creative works — from fiction and spoken word to interviews with writers, artists, and creators.

“I cannot mask, change, morph, or cloak my disease like a flaw in a painting. All I can do is give it a shape without a face.” How one fiction writer with depression turns his mental health challenges into monsters.

Nathan Jurgenson on the US’s post-truth, chaos-of-facts election season: “Because there was so little depth anchoring the candidate and so little campaign machinery to weigh him down, Trump’s white nationalism nimbly flowed across various stances and issues, much like a fictional president being written and rewritten in a writers’ room.”

Elizabeth Catte explores the cultural stereotypes and deeply flawed assumptions behind Appalachia as “Trump Country.”

St. Louis-based journalist Sarah Kendzior covers politics and social justice issues. On her blog she collects her writings from leading publications on topics like the 2016 election and the Black Lives Matter movement.

“A few weeks before the election, Trump’s continued push for policies targeting Muslims weighed heavily on Abid’s mind. The first litmus test she has for a leader, she says, is ‘will you feel safe?’”