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The three winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, plus words from the judges and winners, and a list of honorable mentions

We made some surprising discoveries about the way people do–or don’t– use literary journals’ homepages.

Diana Khoi Nguyen and Cindy Juyoung Ok on reading together, collaging as a mode of writing, and home.

Three of our editors on the craft of beginnings and more

UC grads Dr. Lily Meyer and Dr. Sarah Rose Nordgren will return to read their creative work this Thursday, September 5, at 5:30 p.m.

Learn about our poetry editor-in-residence for the spring issue, reading submissions this fall, Erica Dawson

Submitters tell us why they didn’t withdraw a piece accepted elsewhere.

3 minutes reading time Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter: As North Americans, when we think about current-day Crimea, our first, and perhaps only, association may be with war. In her haunting essay in Issue 21.1, “Gone Are the Blackberries, the Alycha, the Asters, and the Rusty Spigot,” Yekaterina Droog pays tribute to her grandfather’s lost …

An extensive (maCRo?) essay on magical realism in Latin American literature, family history, Colombia, and the magical in the everyday.

The unexpected rewards of going through a lifetime of saved paper.