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Poet and essayist Sean Thomas Dougherty describes his night job as a medical technician and life-skills trainer at a facility for those with traumatic brain injuries.

How can we write against the generalities about places we’ve lived, especially Appalachia?

In this masterful microessay that blends experience and surrealism (as well as a Q & A), Heather Lanier explores the experience of an applicant on the academic job market.

Novelist Elizabeth Bales Frank shares her experiences doing research for law firms.

Our top 3 tips for impressing lit mags by following through on withdrawals, email correspondence, and submission guidelines.

Congratulations to our contributors Aleyna Rentz and Wendy Cheng, whose work has been chosen for the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best Spiritual Literature (formerly The Orison Anthology)! We’re thrilled for them and looking forward to reading the collections.

Marcus Jackson shares how poetry and photography intersect for him and tells the story behind one of the photographs in our issue.

Jerald Walker will serve as our guest literary nonfiction editor for the 2022–23 academic year!

A conversation with Carlina Duan about her newest collection, “Alien Miss.”