Meeting the Sealey Challenge
by Liz Garcia · September 24, 2025If you’re a writer, you have at some point received the advice to read, read, read. William Faulkner’s statement, in a 1956 Paris Review interview, to [...]
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“To Be Awake and Responsible for One’s Actions” a co-interview between JoAnne McFarland and Elaine Sexton
by 5 PTS · July 29, 2025Five Points has published the work of both McFarland and Sexton, and editor Megan Sexton (no relation to Elaine), seeing a common thread, invited the two [...]
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“Help Eleanor Come Home”: The Queer Horror of The Haunting of Hill House
by Eve Clark · June 11, 2025I seem to have developed a reputation. I get asked to read at events with titles like “Bloodlines and Bodies.” I’m the first person people ask [...]
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The James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by Olivia Ivings · May 28, 2025We are pleased to announce that Sean Sutherland has been awarded the Five Points 2025–2026 James Dickey Prize for Poetry. His work will be published in Vol. 24, no. [...]
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Duende and Delight
by Eve Clark · May 17, 2025I was a sad nineteen-year-old taking my first poetry workshop when I first read Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Theory and Play of the Duende.” In this piece, [...]
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Pride and Prejudice & The Awakening: What is food if not domestication or temptation?
by Karen Sims · October 14, 2024“What a superbly featured room and what excellent boiled potatoes! Many years since I’ve had such an exemplary vegetable. To which of my fair cousins [...]
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