Five Points - A Journal of Literature and Art

Meeting the Sealey Challenge

by Liz Garcia · September 24, 2025

If 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 [...]

“To Be Awake and Responsible for One’s Actions” a co-interview between JoAnne McFarland and Elaine Sexton

by 5 PTS · July 29, 2025

Five 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 [...]

“Help Eleanor Come Home”: The Queer Horror of The Haunting of Hill House

by Eve Clark · June 11, 2025

I 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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Meeting the Sealey Challenge

“To Be Awake and Responsible for One’s Actions” a co-interview between JoAnne McFarland and Elaine Sexton

“Help Eleanor Come Home”: The Queer Horror of The Haunting of Hill House