Welcome to Runaway , a project all about expectations, reality and the inevitable crash.
We publish twice a week; here you will find longform interviews with independent creators, journalists, authors, podcasters and a dizzying array of people who get it done despite everything, with the occasional personal essay from a writer who deleted her entire public life to build a more satisfying one under a pen name. (Yes, really.)
Barbara Genova (she/them) is the pen name of a writer who got stranded in Central Europe during the first Covid lockdown of many. Her first published work as Barbara appeared in mid-2021: in 2022 she's been nominated for a Best of the Net award and a Pushcart Prize.
She’s been the author of Dirt City, a monthly story column hosted by Bureau of Complaint.
Poetry, stories and essays have been featured on (breathe): Hobart, Strange Horizons, SAND Journal, Francesca Lia Block’s Lit Angels, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, Expat Press, Return, Last Estate, Misery Tourism, FERAL, 433, Cold Signal Magazine, Witch Craft Magazine, The Daily Drunk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Sledgehammer Lit, Scissors and Spackle, surfaces.cx, The Final Girl Bulletin Board, Fahmidan, The Hallowzine, The Bear Creek Gazette, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Roi Fainéant, Discretionary Love, Poetry Super Highway, Gutslut Press, the New International Voices Series at IceFloe Press, The Airgonaut, Hecate Magazine, Tropico Line, Don’t Submit! and the print anthology “The Place Where Everyone’s Name Is Fear” (Anxiety/Outcast).
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