The Renaissance city of Florence, largely associated with art and architecture, also bears a rich literary history, including the birthplace of the poet who created the modern Italian language and still inspires writers and other creatives to this day.

Serendipitously, two writers wrote about the same exhibition at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art—at two different times, in two different ways.

Spirits of various types emerge at a lovely restaurant outside of San Francisco.

Our literary—and other—offerings go beyond Madrigalia, making our work more accessible to all.

Welcome to our excursion through literary Paris, where we journey across a selection of cafés, museums, bookstores, and more to illuminate some of the rich writerly history that can be discovered in the City of Light.

Non-fiction writing begins in the real world, is made out of actual matter, so why do I feel compelled to write it down?

The literary abounds in the pretty Galérie Vivienne in Paris. Alongside an antique bookstore and detective tales, a new story is conceived about lives imagined.

Sara writes mostly non-fiction. Agnès writes mostly fiction. Sometimes we work together, pairing an essay with a story. Welcome to our series Duos!

Madrigalia is our online journal—a celebration of our fiction, non-fiction, and works in between.