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Ploughshares is published three times a year at Emerson College. Each issue offers almost two hundred pages of great new stories and poems, guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Our website serves as companion to our print journal. We have over 3,500 poems, stories, and articles from our current print issue and our back issue archives that you may read for free. We also have a multitude of Web-only information about our authors. Emerson College, our institutional sponsor, is a premier communications and performing arts college in Boston and hosts one of the best M.F.A. programs in creative writing in the country.
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Blog-ojevich
One of the uses of literature (not that it has to always Have an Obvious Use) is to help people cultivate their stores of empathy and fellow feeling... (read more) |
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Eventide
Now, as this last miserable year grinds to a close, I thought I’d snatch some last 2008 tidbits out of the ether, before unplanned obsolescence (the lifeblood of the internet in general and blogs in specific) take hold... (read more) |
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2008 Cohen Awards
Each year, we honor the best poem and short story published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards. The 2008 Cohen Awards for work published in Ploughshares in 2007, Volume 33, go to Jennifer Grotz and Bret Anthony Johnston.
Take a look at all of our Cohen Award winners from the last nineteen years.
Also see the winners of our John C. Zacharis First Book Award, honoring the best debut by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between fiction and poetry.
Thirty-Four Years of Award Winners
Stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares have appeared at least 135 times in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. See the list.
Congratulations to our newest prize anthology winners:
BEST STORIES Allegra Goodman’s “Closely Held,” from the Spring 2007 issue edited by Edward Hirsch, will be included in The Best American Short Stories 2008. The anthology is due out this October from Houghton Mifflin, with Salman Rushdie as the guest editor and Heidi Pitlor as the series editor.
PUSHCARTS Charles Baxter’s story “Ghosts,” from the Spring 2007, and Chris Forhan’s poem “Love, or Something, also from the Spring 2007 issue, have been selected for The Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, which will be published by Bill Henderson’s Pushcart Press this November.
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CURRENT ISSUE
Guest-edited by Jean Valentine, the Winter 2008-09 issue features six stories and seventy-three poems from established and new voices. | |
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| Guest-edited by James Alan McPherson, the Fall 2008 issue features ten stories and two memoirs. |
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Ploughshares received a 2007 Commonwealth Award as an outstanding cultural organization. The Commonwealth Awards are Massachusetts's highest honors in the arts, humanities, and sciences, and are given out
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