Author Archive
"Bedeviled":  Sample some of our personal demons here.

“Bedeviled”: Sample some of our personal demons here.

The third issue of Broad Street has been out for a year, filled with tales of troubles, vexations, irritations and curses. “Bedeviled” features essays and assorted musings by D. J. Lee, Alan Cheuse, Carol Moldaw, Ramsey Hootman, and Glenn H. Shepard, Jr.; poetry from Lisa Allen Ortiz, Richard Peabody, and Lea Marshall; photography by John Moser, James Prochnik, and Chad...
A Devilish Look

A Devilish Look

From “Demons in the Woods,” a portfolio of photographs by John Moser. Todd by Chad Hunt, 1998 All week we will be spotlighting visual artists who appear in our “Bedeviled” issue, which is coming out soon. Today’s images are from photographers John Moser and Chad Hunt.
"Generous Bonus Doses": Deborah Jiang-Stein on Her Mother's Prison Addiction

“Generous Bonus Doses”: Deborah Jiang-Stein on Her Mother’s Prison Addiction

Prison Baby author and advocate Deborah Jiang-Stein recently discovered something startling about her birth mother’s imprisonment and heroin addiction. Read more in this special feature, exclusively for Broad Street Online.  (The essay also appears in print in our 2016 issue, “Maps & Legends.”)          
Getting Over Writer's Block

Getting Over Writer’s Block

by Carla Dominguez  All writers have likely experienced this dreaded feeling: You’re reaching deep down into the creativity file of your brain, but you can’t find anything. This feeling doesn’t have an expiration date, and sometimes the days of not being able to write never ends. There is a lot of discourse in the world...
The Writer magazine features BROAD STREET.

The Writer magazine features BROAD STREET.

A dispatch from the Shameless Promotion Department: The March issue of The Writer includes a detailed conversation with Broad Street Editorial Director Susann Cokal about the magazine, its editorial direction and philosophy, and some terrific words about contributors and the upcoming Bedeviled issue. Check it out on newsstands now!