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PLOUGHSHARES
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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Best Bets for Fall
Many much-anticipated books will hit the shelves this fall, and, since I'm on a serious book budget at the moment, I'll have to limit my purchases to the titles I’m most excited about... (read more) |
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Don't say Bret Easton Ellis
Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution asks, What is the classic book of the '80s and '90s? I like that question, though I'd think it would have to be two different books... (read more) |
Read more, and join the discussion at pshares.blogspot.com.
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| Upcoming Events |
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Sep 08, 2008
Paul Auster — Reading
Cambridge, MA
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Sep 14, 2008
Charles Coe, Sam Cornish, and Peter Payack — Reading
Cambridge, MA
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Sep 14, 2008
Student Poetry Awards
Cambridge, MA
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2007 Zacharis Award
The $1,500 John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between fiction and poetry. Congratulations to this year's winner, Ander Monson, for his collection of stories, Other Electricities (Sarabande, 2005).
Take a look at all of our Zacharis Award winners from the last fifteen years.
Also see the winners of our Cohen Award, given each year to the best short story and poem published in Ploughshares.
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 B. H. Fairchild, the Spring 2008 issue features seven prose pieces and sixty-two poems from established and new voices. | |
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PREVIOUS ISSUE
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| Guest-edited by Philip Levine, the Winter 2007-08 issue features six prose pieces and sixty-three poems. |
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Ploughshares is published at Emerson College in Boston.
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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