Craig Tollifson’s story “They Agreed” contains curious crows, banned doors, an unraveling relationship, and pepperoni. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.
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Our January 2024 edition of Now Playing features music that transports, music that inspires, and music that meets us where we are right now, all from our contributors!
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Michael Bird’s essay “Tidewrack” gives us a moving meditation on the nature of help. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.
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J. Marcelo' Borromeo’s story “Gang of Four, the Fourth and Final Season” written as sitcom episode synopses, delights, disturbs and twists . Here he shares just one thing about the piece.
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Kelley “Kel” Hudson’s artwork “Green and Grey” defamiliarizes the suburban landscape by placing its relentless grid into sharp focus. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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We are so grateful these fabulous authors trusted us with their debut publication! Congratulations to our nominees for the 2024 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
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Sunwoo Jeong’s flash “David Lewis Says” contains piercings, blind dates, and cosmic dust, and asks us what a hole really is or could be. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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Our December edition of Now Playing features documentaries, mockumentaries, paranormal research, and cooking disasters, all from our contributors!
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Michael Todd Cohen’s essay “Williamstown, Summer 2003” is lit with the sparks of brushes with fame, the dazzle of nights at the theater. Here he shares just one thing about the piece.
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These fictions may be small, but they’re beautiful and mighty! Huge congratulations to our nominees for Best Small Fictions 2024:
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M. Ezra Zhang’s poem “Self-Portrait as the Head of a Frozen Mouse” gives us mirroring, disappearing hands, unspoken things lodged in the throat. Here they share just one thing about the piece.
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SO thankful this month and all months for our incredible SLM FAM and their constantly inspiring accomplishments!
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We are so grateful to have received so much gorgeous work this year that made this such a difficult decision. Here they are, our fabulous nominees for the 2024 Pushcart Prize!
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Leslie Pietrzyk’s story “The End Plays Itself Out” gives us a sharp-voiced narrator who slams us into a rolling line of tiny disasters. Here she shares just one thing about the piece.
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