Stories We Love: “Stranger,” by Steven Schwartz

Fiction Writers Review, May 2, 2022
“In Schwartz’s fiction, as in life, it is often the unspoken or withheld that holds power”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on the story “Stranger,” by Steven Schwartz, from his collection Madagascar.

My Ekphrastic Journey  by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

Washington Independent, April 14, 2022

The Fell: A Novel by Sarah Moss

Washington Independent, March 15, 2022
This story’s quiet start belies its propulsive finish.

Comforting Couplets by Ellen Prentiss Campbell

Washington Independent, February 24, 2022

The Tenderest of Strings by Steven Schwartz

Cleaver, Winter 2022
A story of a marriage and a family in trouble, an exploration of how family ties constrain and sustain, stretch and snap.