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To Dissect, Examine, and Catalog My Alienations: An Interview with Rachel Lyon
Yoojin talks with Epiphany EIC about writing during a pandemic, the similarities between working on a draft and being pregnant, and how our professional lives intertwine with our personal lives.
On Writing Politics and Bad Reviews: An Interview with Luke Brown
“I try to work out who would appreciate reading who and make recommendations. And I tell them to think of the reader, to be kind to the reader – by which of course I mean be kind to me.”
The Epiphany 10: An Interview with Amy Bonnaffons
Once you throw out there, Hey, it’s like our world, except there are these sexy angels, and there’s this afterlife office! I felt pressure to close the loop and explain it all.
Jamel Brinkley on the Unsettled Past
“I want to be true to the trouble of the traumas that people are going through without writing trauma stories, because the crucial thing is just who these people are. Not what happened to them, but who they are. I like the idea of aftermath stories. “
On the Business of Death: An Interview with Amy Bonnaffons
Amy Bonnaffons:“I really liked the idea that even the people who literally carry out the business of death and of transition from this world to the next have no idea what they’re doing.”
An Interview with Breakout 8 Winner Jennifer Ahlquist
“Death. Dying. Grief. That existential fear that surprises you when the barista hands you your latte and you suddenly think, "Oh, wow, we're both going to die eventually and there's absolutely nothing we can do about it."“
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The winners of the 2026 Breakout Prize are Nico Amador in poetry, selected by Cynthia Cruz, and Imogen Osborne in prose, selected by Alexandra Kleeman.