Author Up

This week, we’re thrilled to feature La Piccioletta Barca co-editors-in-chief Eponine Howarth and Micaela Brinsley. 

We talk literary community, editorial evolution, collaboration, independent publishing, and what it means to build a magazine that feels less like a platform and more like a living room full of artists, questions, and unfinished conversations. 

Watch the interview, then go explore and support La Piccioletta Barca — a beautiful independent magazine and collective publishing poetry, fiction, essays, translations, interviews, and visual art.

We're glad to share this conversation with Thomas Sims — poet and poetry editor at Quibble Lit.(once we grow a little, this series will be for subscribers only!)

Thomas brings a rare mix of precision, curiosity, and calm to both writing and reading. In this interview, we talk about poetry, editing, philosophy, mandolin, internet hate, and more — moving between craft and the stranger, more personal edges of a creative life.Thomas is a thoughtful, searching presence on and off the page, and I’m glad to share this conversation together.

For this episode, I’m really glad to share a conversation with Trudy Hale — founder of Porches Writing Retreat and Editor-in-Chief of Streetlight Magazine.

Trudy brings a thoughtful perspective to literary life, and this conversation moves through some of the lasting questions around writing: what retreat can offer, how a creative life evolves, and what it means to keep making room for the work over time.

I’m excited to share this as part of our brand new premium model, and I’m deeply grateful to those of you helping make this kind of space possible. We’re working hard to compact Quibble into a better experience for its artists, audience, and everyone involved.

My hope with this podcast is to keep building a home for conversations like this: reflective, engaging, and rooted in the real textures of writing and art.

I hope you enjoy it - and a huge thanks to Trudy, for sharing her time and experience!