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Issue 16.1 is here!

Issue 16.1 is here!

We received seventeen boxes of literary greatness this week! Copies have been mailed out to contributors, and our mailing service will be sending them to subscribers soon. In the meantime, check out samples from the issue here on our site, and buy single issues (including $5 digital copies) in our online store.

Bonus Track: Unpack Your Adjectives

Bonus Track: Unpack Your Adjectives

In her review of Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck & Other Stories (Dial, 2014) in issue 16.1, Sherrie Flick introduces us to “Unpack Your Adjectives” by Schoolhouse Rock! Here, as accompaniment to the review, is said adjective-loving song: And for those not already familiar with it, here’s its well-known colleague, “Conjunction Junction,” which Flick also mentions: While …

Association of Controlled Dreamers in Performance This Week

Association of Controlled Dreamers in Performance This Week

In Issue 15.1, we debuted our plays-in-progress feature, curated by Drama Editor Brant Russell, with Association of Controlled Dreamers, by MJ Kaufman, which examines the nature of activism for young people today. This week, the play has a run at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), and we’re thrilled to present this behind-the-scenes …

What We’re Reading: Shapes of Native Nonfiction

What We’re Reading: Shapes of Native Nonfiction

Editorial Assistant Emma Faesi Hudelson: Shapes of Native Nonfiction, an anthology of essays by Native authors (University of Washington Press, forthcoming in June 2019), is a formidable entry into the swelling ranks of literary nonfiction. And it’s one that the nonfiction community—mostly white, me included—needs to pay attention to. As editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa …

Best New Poets Nominations!

Best New Poets Nominations!

We are happy to celebrate National Poetry Month by announcing our nominations for the Best New Poets anthology: Samantha Grenrock’s “This Was My Bulwark” (from Issue 15.1) and Kevin Phan’s “Punch Line” (from Issue 15.2)! Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers who haven’t yet published a full-length collection. Poets …

Where We’ll Be at AWP . . .

Where We’ll Be at AWP . . .

We’re looking forward to the AWP Conference & Bookfair, starting on Thursday! You can find us at Booth 7069, along with our book-publishing arm, Acre Books. Stop by to say hello, buy a sample issue, or renew your subscription. Every subscription—including the 4-for-1 $40 deal we’re sponsoring with The Journal, Mid-American Review, and Ninth Letter—comes …

More Pushcart Nominations!

More Pushcart Nominations!

Every year, we find it hard to whittle down the list of our own Pushcart nominations to just six pieces from the print journal and our miCRo series (see our list for this year here), and every March, we feel thrilled to hear about another round of nominations from our pages, this time from contributing …

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