Contributors
The people in the pages.
Fourteen writers, all of them fictional, invented for this magazine and for no other life.
Mira Ellison
Essays · 2 pieces
Mira Ellison writes about rooms, civic habits and the temperature of public life. She lives in a harbour town and keeps a notebook she refuses to call a diary. Her essays for The Quiet Edition return, often, to the hour before a place officially begins.
Jonah Pell
Fiction · 2 pieces
Jonah Pell’s stories follow people on the last service, the wrong platform, and the kitchen after the guests have gone. He is at work on a collection titled Inland, which is not a promise of geography so much as a mood.
Adele Voss
Criticism · 3 pieces
Adele Voss writes criticism on performance, domestic craft and the ethics of looking. She thinks a review should leave the work larger than she found it, and she is suspicious of any sentence that arrives already proud of itself.
Harun Qadir
Essays · 3 pieces
Harun Qadir is interested in permission, ritual and the paperwork of care. He trained as an archivist and left the profession without leaving the temperament. He writes slowly and dates his drafts.
Lila Moreau
Fiction · 3 pieces
Lila Moreau writes short fiction about tenancy, weather and women who change towns without announcing it. She is interested in keys, second sets especially, and in the stories objects tell when they are almost lost.
Cassian Drew
Essays · 3 pieces
Cassian Drew used to teach swimming to people who did not trust the deep end. He writes about attention, lists and the bodies we bring to landscapes. His letters are often addressed to someone who has just left a room.
Naima Solt
Criticism · 2 pieces
Naima Solt writes on portraiture, refusal and the politics of the averted gaze. She keeps a correspondence she sometimes allows us to print. She would like it known that looking away can be a form of accuracy.
Ezra Holm
Fiction · 2 pieces
Ezra Holm’s stories are set in visiting hours, at gates, and in gardens that have outlived their plans. He writes dialogue as if it were something people do while thinking about something else, which it is.
Ruthie Lang
Letters · 2 pieces
Ruthie Lang writes from kitchens and waiting rooms. Her letters to the editor have become a small, stubborn chronicle of neighbourly life: missed trains, borrowed dishes, and the news that does not make a headline.
Mateo Ibarra
Interviews · 2 pieces
Mateo Ibarra edits the interview section and asks questions twice, on purpose. He prefers a long silence to a quick quote, and he sends transcripts back before he will call a conversation finished.
Soren Vale
Criticism · 2 pieces
Soren Vale writes about colour, labour and looking slowly. He is suspicious of masterpieces and fond of unfinished edges. He believes a critic should admit when a pigment has defeated them.
Ingrid Cho
Essays · 3 pieces
Ingrid Cho writes about margins, practice and the objects that remain after a decision. She keeps a studio that is mostly a table. In Kindling she talks with Mateo Ibarra about staying put without calling it a brand.
Pavel Renn
Fiction · 2 pieces
Pavel Renn writes spare, interior stories about rented rooms and the people who almost stay. He is interested in leases, kettles and the etiquette of leaving a place cleaner than you found it, but not unrecognisable.
June Adebayo
Interviews · 2 pieces
June Adebayo is interested in how writers describe their own doubt. She lets her subjects revise the question. Her conversations for the magazine are less profiles than shared thinking, conducted at a table and then pared back.