Hunger Mountain

Hunger Mountain is an online journal of the arts from @VCFA publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation.

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ISSUE #32 OUT NOW 🩶

You’ll find text, art, text as art, and words that bruise, jolt, unsettle, and demand your attention.

We hope you enjoy these pieces just as much as we do.

Cover art by our own Associate Managing Editor, @KurtyLimbo

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"The thing I love about a fairy tale retelling is that you have these very flat, sort of archetypal characters. It's possible to breathe all kinds of different life into them." -Molly Olguín

HM speaks with Molly about her debut book: https://t.co/9lZqApWWrU

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"What do you have agency over? What do you have control over? Taking it one day at a time, one step at a time, and that was something I kept coming back to." - Michael Plunkett

HM speaks with Michael Plunkett about his debut novel, Zone Rouge.

https://t.co/bDh0X0JtFn

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"What do you have agency over? What do you have control over? Taking it one day at a time, one step at a time, and that was something I kept coming back to." - Michael Plunkett

HM speaks with Michael Plunkett about his debut novel, Zone Rouge.

https://t.co/bDh0X0JtFn

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"I wanted to create something to let the rest of the world know that Asheville and the surrounding areas were still living in a dystopian-like devastation." - Nora Shalaway Carpenter

HM's interview with Nora Shalaway Carpenter is live: https://t.co/Bsc43v9RBY

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Hunger Mountain is now open for submissions for Issue #33! We accept fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Consider us fans of both boundary pushers and traditionalists alike - we just want to be wowed.
Submissions close December 1st.

https://t.co/50EFRBKuBE

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"Accessibility doesn't mean easy or simple. It can still be deep and layered and complex and intellectually rigorous."

HM speaks with Kazim Ali about the Complexity of Lucille Clifton

🔗 https://t.co/XAotu2cXIY

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"In mapping out this collection, I pondered the best way to bring the Trojan War itself into Tennessee." - @MariaZoccola

HM speaks with Maria Zoccola about her debut poetry collection "Helen of Troy, 1993," which reimagines the myth of Helen of Sparta.

https://t.co/lfrj5b9EXa

[Jacqueline Doyle @doylejacq]

Wonderful interview with @SF_Montgomery in @HungerMtn

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"There’s so much possibility in front of us, and it starts with stepping back to question who you are, what your suffering means, and what you need to do about it."

HM speaks with Laura Delano about her memoir, Unshrunk @LauraDelano @VikingBooks

https://t.co/bvtAB4Yb7k

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"I learned to shrink, to abbreviate my stories and my life so that I could be a good girl, a good woman who did not claim space." - @SF_Montgomery

HM speaks with Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection, Abbreviate @harbor_review

https://t.co/Mttb9NGWDL

[Mandira Pattnaik @MandiraPattnaik]

In the 16th century, “paradox” denoted an opinion running counter to accepted opinion (from Greek paradoxon, “contrary [opinion]”), which isn’t exactly what it means now—something that seems contradictory but actually isn’t.

#amreading @doylejacq in @HungerMtn

[SarahFawn Montgomery @SF_Montgomery]

For @HungerMtn I spoke with Juliet Way-Henthorne about girlhood, ghosts, and rebellion in ABBREVIATE.

https://t.co/lck7zyQxrt

[naomi gordon-loebl @naomigloebl]

Excited that this little piece of mine, which is very close to my heart, is in the latest issue of @HungerMtn. It's about my top surgery, my twin sister, and the ways our bodies have grown and changed alongside each other. More at the link 🖤 https://t.co/89AWHYZJm9

[Jacqueline Doyle @doylejacq]

Excited to have a weird wandering lyric essay in the new issue of @HungerMtn. Thanks to the editors for publishing "A Wild Goose Chase." (Thanks to Geoff Dyer for inspiring the essay and making me laugh.) I needed a lift today.
https://t.co/SpFkFLkCQ9

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"The criticism is that the book is too much, too messy,' too chaotic.' This is my favorite reverse-compliment. I love messy, chaotic stories filled with complicated relationships." - Domenica Ruta

https://t.co/RClCqdeZWE

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"I've become better at managing what I can control by giving myself to the moments where nostalgia or beauty or strangeness lock eyes with me. That's how I've learned to write, to meet the page where it's at." - @stevenespadaw
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