Jason Mott is a poet and novelist. His first two collections of poetry, We Call this Thing Between us is Love and Hide Behind Me, were published by Main Street Rag in 2009 and 2011, and his first novel, The Returned, was released in August 2013 with Harlequin MIRA and has been adapted for the television show, Resurrection, by Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B. Mott was nominated for an NAACP Award in the category of “Outstanding Literary Work—Debut Author” in 2014. Resurrection airs on March 9, 2014.
Read MoreFor the past two years, Sam Martone has served as our editor, overseeing all aspects of production and wielding his power like a tyrant. Kacie Wheeler, marching up winding mountain paths and tip-toeing across rickety rope bridges, caught up with him in his Editor Fortress to find out what he does in his free time (if he has any), what kinds of stories he hopes to see in the submission queue, and what he’s loved most about working on Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Read MoreWhen I was a baby poet, I would spend hours reading the two volume set of the Norton Anthology of English Literature. I still have the volumes. Between the red covers of those books, in college, I wrote notes and scribbled little pictures (look at the swans, and goblins and flowers!) beside every poem, every play. At the time, it seemed like the pinnacle of poetic achievement would to one day be included in this anthology, and that to enter into it as a poet would simultaneously mean that one had been legitimized and that one had also entered into history itself, even if you only had one lousy, thin page devoted to your poem.
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Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Sandy Longhorn, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Longhorn, check out her contributor spotlight, where she discusses her two HFR53 poems!
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Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Lucas Southworth, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Southworth, check out his contributor spotlight, wherein he discusses the last sentence of his HFR53 story, "There Isn't Any Ghost."
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Read MoreSubscribe to HFR today and get a paper airplane with handwritten work from Geffrey Davis, or buy a two-year subscription for all our contributor paper airplanes. For more from Davis, check out his contributor spotlight from last month.
Tomorrow our contributor airplane offer will be Staci R. Schoenfeld.
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