Featured Vignette

  • How do you decide where a story begins? Hesiod’s Theogony starts with an invocation; Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night Traveller, with a mistake. FIRST PAGES is a special issue dedicated to such beginnings: before the characters have names – before they’ve given us a reason to care – there’s a handful of lines standing…

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About the Archive

What you’ll find here are vignettes: selected excerpts from the anthologies and chapbooks we publish in print.

Each began life as a physical object, made to be held, read, and shared.