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  • How to Avoid Ron, the Nightclub Bouncer: What to Do When You Have Writer’s Block

      All writers dread one thing the most: writer’s block. It is the feeling that your fingers cannot type another character or the frustration that nothing is quite right, furiously clicking backspace over and over again until there is nothing but a blank page. If writer’s block were a person, writer’s block would be a Continue reading

  • Magic of Cinderella

    On a drowsy November evening, I decided to watch a film to cure my boredom. The setback was the fact that movies rarely satisfied me. The quality of cinema has been diminishing in the past decade as millions of dollars are dumped on dry scripting and badly illustrated clichés. If I was going to sit Continue reading

  • Be Gone, Writer’s Block!

    Writing can be very stressful. Especially when you have absolutely no idea what to write about. For me, writing can become a chore when I’m not producing the type of work I want. Constantly scribbling out words and sentences, or even changing the whole story as a whole. How I get out of this block Continue reading

  • Music To Listen To While Writing

      We are all writers here at Levitate, but most of us also have ties to other forms of art and self-expression. Personally, I have a fondness of music, both as a performer and a fan, and I noticed that music somehow blends its way into any piece I write, be it prose or poetry. Continue reading

  • The Monster No One Realizes

    “Skinny,” by Ibi Kaslik, is a novel about Giselle, a doctor who also suffers from an eating disorder. The juxtaposition of a doctor and someone who is dealing with a mental disorder is what first drew me to the book. In my head I was thinking, “Isn’t she supposed to be the one person who Continue reading

  • Open Mic!

    You heard it here first everyone! The Levitate Literary and Art Magazine is back, and opening for submission at the end of this month. But first, get ready, get excited, and save the date for our ANNUAL Open Mic at the Read Write Library, Tuesday October 23, 2018, from 6:30-8. You can meet the crew Continue reading

  • Piece I love: Heroine of the Century, a Scottish Warrior

    Staffer Zoé Nellum tells us why we should give The Falconer our attention. The Falconer by Elizabeth May is one of the most recent high fantasy novels I’ve read, and I was not disappointed. With authentic characters, intricate and immersive setting, it makes for a heart-string tugging plot I wanted to see through. May’s book represents Continue reading

  • Piece I Love: Anne Enright’s “The Hotel”

    Review from staffer Oona Winners I’ve heard a lot of good things about the fiction that The New Yorker includes in their weekly editions, but until last December I had not actually read a piece from it. Now that I finally have, I understand the hype. The story I read, called “The Hotel” by author Continue reading

  • Sordid Sequences, from issue .05

    “Some say, there’s a bounty on his head. As of tonight, no one has attempted to collect.” —Roger Aplon Hey guys, Levitate’s first half issue , where you can find the rest of Aplon’s piece, will be packaged and sold this spring with the 1st full issue scheduled to launch in April!   Continue reading

  • Piece I love: “The Bearded Loon,” by Kelly Morris

    Ysobel Gallo reviews a piece from upstreet’s most recent issue.   We’ve been talking a lot about place lately. As a setting, as a conflict, even as a character. In Kelly Morris’s “The Bearded Loon,” published in last year’s issue thirteen of upstreet, a random pub, never even seen by the narrator, takes on the significance Continue reading