Sixty Lit features literary works including creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, autotheory, and experimental or lyrical essays.
Recent Sixty Lit Articles
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Beyond the Page: Sahar Mustafah
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. For this installment, I interviewed fiction writer and high school English teacher Sahar Mustafah about her debut novel, “The Beauty of Your Face.” We spoke in January about her process of…
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Three Poems by Sharanya Sharma
content warning: descriptions of violence nandi relays a message after an endless swallowing of years a little girl, limbs molded from mother’s darkest saffron stole to my soot-stoned side hewn from sweat and love. hungrily she cupped a hand to my frozen ear. the cold pelt singed in her exhale as with earth-stained lips she scratched words …
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Beyond the Page: Sharanya Sharma
“Beyond the Page” digs into the process and practice of writers and artists who work at the intersection of literary arts and other fields. For this installment, I interviewed writer Sharanya Sharma about her MFA thesis project, “Set Fire to This Crooked House,” a poetry collection that she is in the process of developing into…
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Why I Die In Winter
After taking the longest, hottest shower, the cold air beyond the curtain grabbed at my skin like frigid hands ripping me from the arms of a warm lover. That was the morning that Jeremy died. It felt like the end was near the night before. He asked me to put his rocking chair on the…