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The Death and Life of August Sweeney - Samuel Ashworth

The Death and Life of August Sweeney - Samuel Ashworth

City of Dancing Gargoyles - Tara Campbell

City of Dancing Gargoyles - Tara Campbell

The Book of Losman - K.E. Semmel

The Book of Losman - K.E. Semmel

The Marco Chronicles - Elizabeth Geoghegan

The Marco Chronicles - Elizabeth Geoghegan

Us, After - Rachel Zimmerman

Us, After - Rachel Zimmerman

Splice of Life - Charles Jensen

Splice of Life - Charles Jensen

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Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger

Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger

Patagonian Road - Kate McCahill

Patagonian Road - Kate McCahill

Ordination - Daniel M. Ford

Ordination - Daniel M. Ford

Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass - Annita P. Sawyer

Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass - Annita P. Sawyer

‘Zine - Pagan Kennedy

‘Zine - Pagan Kennedy

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I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat - Christopher Gonzalez

I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat - Christopher Gonzalez

Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Mona At Sea - Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger

Negative Space - Lilly Dancyger

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The Quarterly

Pleasure Means Moving Authentically

Pleasure Means Moving Authentically

Honoring the Promise: The Quarterly in 2021

Honoring the Promise: The Quarterly in 2021

Changed Behavior: SFWP and the Future of a Historically White Press

Changed Behavior: SFWP and the Future of a Historically White Press

From the #SFWP Quarterly

From the #SFWPQuarterly

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Janine Kovac

Limelight

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Janine Kovac

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Janine Kovac

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Kaitlyn Dada

Ecstasy

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Kaitlyn Dada

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Kaitlyn Dada

Distressed Debt

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Creative Nonfiction, John Kaufmann

Distressed Debt

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Creative Nonfiction, John Kaufmann

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Creative Nonfiction, John Kaufmann

The Cybernetic Lullaby

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Nolo Segundo

The Cybernetic Lullaby

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Nolo Segundo

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Nolo Segundo

The Game of Pretend

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Rachel Nielsen

The Game of Pretend

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Rachel Nielsen

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Rachel Nielsen

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Katie Gene Friedman

Pristine

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Katie Gene Friedman

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Katie Gene Friedman

Penguins Confused

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Peter J. Dellolio

Penguins Confused

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Peter J. Dellolio

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Peter J. Dellolio

Blurry Sketches

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Peter J. Dellolio

Blurry Sketches

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Peter J. Dellolio

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Peter J. Dellolio

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Creative Nonfiction, Amy Cook

Receipts

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Creative Nonfiction, Amy Cook

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Creative Nonfiction, Amy Cook

Mom drops me off at rehab (age 16)

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Anna Williams

Mom drops me off at rehab (age 16)

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Anna Williams

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Anna Williams

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Teddy Burnette

The Bucket

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Teddy Burnette

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Teddy Burnette

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Francis DiClemente

Cake Mistake

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Francis DiClemente

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Fiction, Francis DiClemente

Looking for Some Action

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Katie Gene Friedman

Looking for Some Action

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Katie Gene Friedman

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Katie Gene Friedman

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Rebecca Pyle

In Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Rebecca Pyle

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Rebecca Pyle

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Alex Andy Phuong

Poetic Rights

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Alex Andy Phuong

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Alex Andy Phuong

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Gabrielle Palmer

durango

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Gabrielle Palmer

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Gabrielle Palmer

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, R.T. Notaro

The Bunker

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, R.T. Notaro

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, R.T. Notaro

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Roy Bentley

Monsters

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Roy Bentley

Issue 31 / Spring 2023, Poetry, Roy Bentley

The World as it Appears: Review of City Scattered: Cabaret for Four Voices by Tyler Mills

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Karin Falcone Krieger

The World as it Appears: Review of City Scattered: Cabaret for Four Voices by Tyler Mills

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Karin Falcone Krieger

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Karin Falcone Krieger

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Hillary Leftwich

Good Girls

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Hillary Leftwich

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Hillary Leftwich

The Oblivion Hole

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Ryan Alan Boyle

The Oblivion Hole

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Ryan Alan Boyle

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Ryan Alan Boyle

Sleeping Animals

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Nathan Leslie

Sleeping Animals

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Nathan Leslie

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Nathan Leslie

“Privacy is a Figment of Eden”: Review of Math for the Self Crippling by  Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Karin Falcone Krieger

“Privacy is a Figment of Eden”: Review of Math for the Self Crippling by Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Karin Falcone Krieger

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Karin Falcone Krieger

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Cheryl Skory Suma

Walking Boys

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Cheryl Skory Suma

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Cheryl Skory Suma

Immigration, Migration, and Belonging with Madhushree Ghosh, author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Hoang Samuelson, Madhushree Ghosh

Immigration, Migration, and Belonging with Madhushree Ghosh, author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Hoang Samuelson, Madhushree Ghosh

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Interviews, Hoang Samuelson, Madhushree Ghosh

The Shine Inside

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Janine Kovac

The Shine Inside

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Janine Kovac

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Creative Nonfiction, Janine Kovac

Message on a Tree

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Erica Henry

Message on a Tree

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Erica Henry

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Erica Henry

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Janet Goldberg

Like Human

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Janet Goldberg

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Janet Goldberg

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Poetry, Caroline Hayduk

Fresh Men

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Poetry, Caroline Hayduk

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Poetry, Caroline Hayduk

This Grateful Face

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Jesaka Long

This Grateful Face

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Jesaka Long

Issue 30 / Fall + Winter 2022, Fiction, Jesaka Long

Featured

I don’t know pleasure until she convinces me to skip French class

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

I don’t know pleasure until she convinces me to skip French class

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

lipservice

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Ashley Elizabeth, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dalia A. Elmanzalawy, Special Issue

Garden

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dalia A. Elmanzalawy, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dalia A. Elmanzalawy, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Special Issue

Alcohol Woman

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Dr. Deidra Suwanee Dees, Special Issue

When you check in to let me know you’re thinking of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

When you check in to let me know you’re thinking of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Variations on a Wooden Spoon

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Variations on a Wooden Spoon

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Special Issue

A Nightmare Called Tonight

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, simóne j banks, Special Issue

A Nightmare Called Tonight

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, simóne j banks, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, simóne j banks, Special Issue

menses sings of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Nefertiti Asanti, Special Issue

menses sings of me

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Nefertiti Asanti, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Nefertiti Asanti, Special Issue

the most powerful aphrodisiac

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Zara R. Ahmed, Special Issue

the most powerful aphrodisiac

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Zara R. Ahmed, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Zara R. Ahmed, Special Issue

Seagulls would leave it spotless

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Lucy Zhang, Special Issue

Seagulls would leave it spotless

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Lucy Zhang, Special Issue

Feb 1, 2021

Special Issue 24 / Winter 2021, Lucy Zhang, Special Issue

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