Interview with Playwrights Dan O’Brien and christopher oscar peña
Director Mark Armstrong interviews CR contributors Dan O’Brien and christopher oscar peña about their published play trilogies
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Author: Lisa Ampleman
Announcing Our 2025 Contest Winners
The three winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, plus words from the judges and winners, and a list of finalists
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Nigerian Writing in the US and Beyond
Three Nigerian writers share their experiences of the literary culture there and here.
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miCRo: “The Landscape Painter” by Matthew Thorburn
An ekphrastic prose poem that makes the artifact embodied through a narrative.
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On Craft: “Ruin Porn” by Maya Jewell Zeller
A craft essay on how writers can best depict rural America without resorting to “poverty porn.”
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What We’re Reading: Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie
A book of nonfiction written like a novel, moving with and then past the genre of true crime
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miCRo: “Fascism” by Mark Strohschein
A starkly titled prose poem about a figurative ocean of blackness.
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“Frango” by Zoe Ballering
Story from Issue 22.1
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miCRo: “In Transit” by Bella Gibb
A sharp, lyrical meditation on the vulnerability and rage at moving through public space in a queer, feminine body.
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Nonfiction Special Feature: “Open Secret” by Debra Spark
A complex essay by Debra Spark in which the story told is someone else’s, a woman who learns about her mother’s past
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