Confab with a Contributor Archives - Five Points - A Journal of Literature and Art

Confab with a Contributor: Susannah Mintz

by Aniya Anderson · November 19, 2025

1) For anyone who picks up the Vol. 24, no. 1 issue of Five Points and flips to your essay, “The Approach,” they will be met [...]

Confab with a Contributor: Sharon Dolin

by Soniah Kamal · March 04, 2016

1) “The Man Who Knew Too Much and the Girl Who Knew Too Little” (Vol. 17 No. 1) is an intricately braided essay about the fear [...]

Confab with a Contributor: Lesley Nneka Arimah

by Soniah Kamal · November 13, 2015

1) Buchi’s Girls, featured in Vol. 16, No. 3 is about the recently widowed Buchi who has moved into her sister’s home. Here Buchi is formed to [...]

Confab with a Contributor: Lauren Groff

by Soniah Kamal · February 07, 2015

1) “Good People,” featured in Vol. 16, No. 2, is about a wife coming to terms with her husband and son and the losses they make [...]

Confab with a Contributor: Edward Hower

by Soniah Kamal · November 03, 2014

1) Your essay Gratitude, featured in Five Points Vol. 15, No. 1&2 , chronicles the time your family vacationed in Guatemala in 1954 and was inadvertently caught up in the [...]

Confab with a Contributor: Ethan Chatagnier

by Soniah Kamal · October 13, 2014

1) “Every Face Was in the Crowd,” featured in Five Points Vol. 16, No .1 , is the story of an art student who struggles between the [...]