Issues

Ploughshares publishes issues four times a year. Two of these issues are guest-edited by different, prominent authors. The other two issues are edited by our staff editors, one a mix of poetry and prose and the other long-form prose.

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  • Issue # 159
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Spring 2024

    $8.99$18.00
    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O’Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, and more.

  • Issue # 158
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Winter 2023-24

    $6.99$14.00

    The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ian Stansel, Ariana Benson, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Marie Howe, and more.

  • Issue # 157
    Longform

    Fall 2023

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2023 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features prose by Anthony David, Parul Kapur, John Keeble, Diane Hinton Perry, Austin Woerner, Nafis Shafizadeh, Wiam El-Tamami, Jamie Lyn Smith, and Jim Shepard.

  • Issue # 156

    Summer 2023

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2023 Issue, guest-edited by Tom Perrotta, features prose by Marianne Leone, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Andre Dubus III, Fabio Morábito, Jen Trynin, Olufunke Grace Bankole, and Jess Walter, among others.

  • Spring 2023 Vol. 4.91
    Issue # 155
    Nonfiction

    Spring 2023

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2023 Issue, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman, features poetry and prose by Danusha Lameris, Jennifer Haigh, Victor LaValle, Mary Gordon, Diane Ackerman, Lavanya Vasudevan, and Jai Chakrabarti, among others.

  • Winter 2022-23 Vol. 4.84
    Issue # 154
    Fiction

    Winter 2022-23

    $6.99$14.00

    The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez, Grace Li, Sara Elkamel, and more.  

  • Fall 2022 Vol. 48.3
    Issue # 153
    Longform, Poetry

    Fall 2022

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2022 Issue of Ploughshares features longform work by E. K. Ota, Ben Stroud, Daniel Peña, and others.

  • Summer 2022 Vol. 48.2
    Issue # 152

    Summer 2022

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jamel Brinkley, features original prose by Rav Grewal-Kök, Arinze Ifeakandu, Gothataone Moeng, Lauren Morrow, and others. “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling,” Brinkley writes in…

  • Spring 2022 Vol. 48.1
    Issue # 151

    Spring 2022

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2022 Issue, guest-edited by Ilya Kaminsky, features original poetry and prose by Sheila Black, Andres Cerpa, Victoria Chang, Jane Hirshfield, Mary Jo Bang, Paige Lewis, Layli Long Soldier, Khadijah Queen, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Hassaan Mirza, and others.

  • Winter 2021-22 Vol. 4.74
    Issue # 150

    Winter 2021-22

    $6.99$14.00

    The Winter 2021-22 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Weike Wang, Fei Sun, Mameve Medwed, Kwame Dawes, and Leila Chatti, among others.

  • Fall 2021 Vol. 4.73
    Issue # 149

    Fall 2021

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” The Fall 2021 Issue of…

  • Summer 2021 Vol. 4.72
    Issue # 148

    Summer 2021

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”…

  • Spring 2021 Vol. 4.71
    Issue # 147

    Spring 2021

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the…

  • Winter 2020-21 Vol. 4.64
    Issue # 146
    Fiction

    Winter 2020-21

    $6.99$14.00

    The Winter 2020-21 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”   The Winter 2020-21 Issue,…

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    Issue # 145

    Fall 2020

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2020 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” The Fall 2020…

  • Summer 2020 Vol. 4.62
    Issue # 144
    Poetry

    Summer 2020

    $6.99$14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2020 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares…