Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In Katie Cortese’s deft hands, this story juxtaposes the greatest kinds of loss with the mundane details of a life lived in the aftermath. Medieval torture shares a paragraph with the limitations of automatic doors at a gym, and “Windex and elbow-length rubber gloves” show up near the memory of a funeral. …
There’s nothing much wrong with the Bridgeway Motor Court. The carpet in Coleman’s room is dappled with burn marks, and the exterior wall, the one with the windows, has these psychedelic zigzags at the bottom, like somebody’s kid was left to run their crayons back and forth over the same spot, rubbing them down to the nubs. It’s cheap, though, the motel, and there aren’t any bugs.
We’re jumping for joy at recent recognitions of work from our pages! One piece will appear in an anthology, another was a finalist, and still others were nominated for consideration: Sonja Livingston’s marvelous essay from issue 14.2, “Miracle of the Eyes,” about mysterious happenings with statues of Mary in Ireland in 1985, was selected for …
Assistant Editor Caitlin Doyle: In Bruce Johnson’s unsettling and Kafkaesque flash-fiction piece “The Slabs,” we enter a world that brings to mind the 1960s television series The Twilight Zone and the more recent Netflix series Black Mirror, wildly popular shows that invite viewers to navigate the line between the quotidian and the strange. Johnson asks …
To be a child again. Is my wish. Something earthy and pleasant. Something before knowledge. Before. Me and the kids down the street making wooden gravestones with our names on them for Halloween, before we knew that one kid would die. How the gravestones lived with us years after, in the garage. Childhood, like a …
Associate Editor Caitlin Doyle: In “Summer Dawn, Summer Nightgown,” Brendan Galvin invites us to glimpse a burgeoning romance between two people who have found each other during their later years (“at our age as intricately twined as though / we are life’s final gift to each other”). Galvin moves between emotional revelation and artful restraint …
We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 19.2 with craft essays about and reviews of anthologies, including the following pieces: (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)
Associate Editor James Ellenberger: It’s rather incredible how dense and interesting a relationship Zambrano explores in such a short space. Part of that, I think, lies in the author’s ability to plant details in way that feels simultaneously cyclical and progressive, much in a way that a villanelle’s repetitions build and build as the …
We are pleased to share this review by Emma Hudelson of Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond, which appeared in Issue 19.2 as part of a special multigenre review and essay feature on anthologies (read the entire feature here): Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond. …
The time has come when word-lovers of all varieties flock to the annual Association of Writers & Writing Program Conference. We relish meeting our readers, contributors, submitters, and subscribers at AWP each year, and we’re as galvanized as ever to make our way to Tampa in just a few days. Here’s what we’ll be up …
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