creative space.
I write at my kitchen table by the window until June, when we put the air conditoner in. Then I move to the living room until September. I avoid schedules because violating them is too demoralizing. I write any old time. I have no rituals other than regular self-loathing.
Are there repetitive themes within your writing? Where do you draw inspiration for these themes, and how do you find yourself drawn to them?
I frequently write about death and loss because I will never understand either.
Our goal is to publish absurdly unclassifiable literature. Do you have a favourite piece of writing that goes against the grain?
Probably Ashbery’s monostitch, “I Had Thought Things Were Going Along Well.”
What pieces and/or projects are you currently working on?
I am writing longer short stories that I want to grow into a collection. It is slow but satisfying going.
Ashley Hutson’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Catapult, Electric Literature, Wigleaf, Split Lip Magazine, matchbook, Fanzine, SmokeLong Quarterly, and The Best Small Fictions 2018 Anthology. She lives in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Read more at www.aahutson.com.