Ursula the Busy Bear
by Alicia Raines · November 03, 2025Alicia Raines, Assistant Editor at Five Points and comic artist, drew the story of Ursula, the Five Points mascot. [...]
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“The Art of Graphic Narratives,” An Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval
by Alicia Raines · October 20, 2025Jesse Lee Kercheval is a novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, and graphic novelist. Her graphic essay, “Birds,” was published in our most recent [...]
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On Writing as a Parent/Parenting as a Writer
by Liz Garcia · October 10, 2025In 2022, I hit a milestone: all three of my children were old enough to be at school all day. For me, this meant a freedom [...]
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“The Joy of Flash,” An Interview with Josh Russell
by Alicia Raines · October 09, 2025Josh Russell’s most recent book is King of the Animals: Stories (LSU Press). At Georgia State, he is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Creative Writing [...]
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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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