Joe Madsen

In this issue, each one of us editors at SixByEight Press engage in open dialogue and conversation with writers, collaborators, and mentors from our own personal and professional lives, to…

SixByeIght Press began including fiction pieces in the last few years; the issue for which this piece was the introduction was only our second all-fiction piece. This addition seems to…

In this second annual Editors’ Choice issue, we look back on the past year’s issues of SixByEight Press and reflect on our favorite pieces as editors. Each of these pieces…

JOE MADSEN Mark Twain once called truth “stranger than fiction.” Fiction, he claimed, has to “stick to possibilities,” while truth does not, but his words point to a bond between…

In this issue — our second annual creative issue — we celebrate the many forms, styles, and themes that can be conveyed through creative writing — ranging from personal essays…

In this issue, we look back on over 30 issues of SixByEight Press and reflect on our favorite pieces as editors. While some works are recent and some are older,…

When SixByEight Press first launched in those early months of 2016, there were a handful of people who we imagined — and hoped! — would be regular participants in this…

JOE MADSEN Read Part 1 of this story, “Because Roddy Got High,” here. The grand old marble steps of St. Frank’s came into view, just one block away. A car…

JOE MADSEN Roddy flicked the joint into the littered bush and realized he’d done nothing of what he said he would. Except get to the clinic that morning. But nothing…

In this issue, we continue our conversation around food from our previous issue, Acting Hungry: Food for Thoughts on Performance, and explore the taboos of consumption, discussing the obvious performative…