The silver cows carried on a conversation. The stars in the sky were shattered dots. No one was awake to see them. Center of sharing beneath the skin. Two brains beat back and forth. Evil is removed from every situation. (…)

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I can only aspire to be as fried as you were then, at that age. Blacksmiths were coming to visit the gold of your mother-in-law. Another version of Scandinavia admitted from the stereo’s vixen. How you could succeed through the (…)

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The vehicle becomes a metaphor for the body and reminds us of all the ways we routinely surrender control: the ways our agency is increasingly remote-controlled by, among other forces, that grand deity of the twenty-first century, technology. On Zhang (…)

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“One morning, Rob Baerenwiese awoke to discover he was no longer among the living. It was a strange sensation, to say the least. In a physical, tingly, sensate sense, he was still very much alive. At least he felt himself (…)

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Travis Jeppesen discusses Bad Writing with Drew Zeiba at the KGB Journal.

An excerpt from “Becoming Sobject,” one of the essays contained in BAD WRITING, has been published in Tank Magazine: read here.

Travis is on the jury for the 2019 Büro BDP Writing Prize. Büro BDP is delighted to announce its inaugural Writing Prize, a prize dedicated to excellent new international writing that displays progressive and bold qualities in both form and (…)

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Earlier this year, Travis discussed See You Again in Pyongyang with Jonathan Small for the Write About Now podcast. Listen here. Or on Apple podcasts, here.