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    Fiction, Nonfiction

    Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 3

    $9.99 – $19.95
    Guest Editor
    Ladette Randolph

    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this third annual print collection. Take a trip across Israel with the deceased Izzy Gam as he tries to find an unoccupied place to rest, visit a ruined hotel in a washed-up resort in Puerto Rico, and become immersed in…

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    Issue # 127
    Fiction

    Summer 2015

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Lauren Groff

    The Summer 2015 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Lauren Groff. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Groff writes in her…

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    Issue # 126
    Poetry

    Spring 2015

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Neil Astley

    Acclaimed publisher and editor Neil Astley, founder of Bloodaxe Books, guest-edits this special transatlantic all-poetry issue, featuring poets from North America, Great Britain, and Ireland. The issue contains a stirring diversity of work, with writers who have roots everywhere from Guyana to Pakistan to Zambia, and also features poetry in Welsh, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic….

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    Issue # 125

    Winter 2014-15

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editors
    Ladette Randolph
    John Skoyles
    Margot Livesey

    This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories. The prose ranges from surreal humor — David Cameron’s “Mannequin,” about a man’s relationship with a life-size doll he buys to use the HOV lane — to tragedy in Lisa Gruenberg’s essay on the experiences of her Viennese father and his…

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    Poetry

    Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 1

    $9.99 – $19.95
    Guest Editor
    Ladette Randolph

    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the Ploughshares Solos digital series, unite for the first time in this inaugural collection. Follow a street urchin’s transformation into a burlesque star and a woman’s solitary, hectic journey through Israel and the West Bank. Wait with Kafka’s last physician for “the patient in room 12” to…

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    Fiction

    Ploughshares Solos Omnibus Volume 2

    $9.99 – $19.95
    Guest Editor
    Ladette Randolph

    Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, unite in this second annual collection. The Omnibus features work by Paul Byall, Christopher Castellani, L. C. Fiore, Kathleen Hill, Alexandra Johnson, Brendan Jones, Patricia Grace King, Lisa Heiserman Perkins, and Aurelie Sheehan, as well as an introduction from Ploughshares editor-in-chief…

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    Issue # 124
    Fiction

    Fall 2014

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Percival Everett

    The Fall 2014 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Percival Everett. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Percival Everett (Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier) guest-edits this all-fiction issue. As Everett writes in his introduction, the…

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    Issue # 123

    Spring 2014

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Jean Thompson

    The Spring 2014 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Jean Thompson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean Thompson (The Year We Left Home) guest-edits this issue of prose and poetry. As she writes in her…

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    Issue # 122

    Winter 2013-14

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editors
    Ladette Randolph
    John Skoyles
    Margot Livesey

    The Winter 2013-14 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. Dedicated to Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), a former guest editor, this issue of Ploughshares features a…

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    Issue # 121
    Fiction

    Fall 2013

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Peter Ho Davies

    The Fall 2013 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Peter Ho Davies. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year’s three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited. Award-winning novelist and short-story writer Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh…

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    Issue # 120

    Spring 2013

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Major Jackson

    The Spring 2013 issue of Ploughshares, edited by Major Jackson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. The poet Major Jackson (Holding Company, Hoops) compiles this eclectic Spring issue, which includes the work of several distinguished writers and newcomers. Featuring poetry…

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    Issue # 119

    Winter 2012-2013

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editors
    Ladette Randolph
    John Skoyles

    The Winter 2012-13 issue of Ploughshares, edited by John Skoyles and Ladette Randolph. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several distinguished…

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    Issue # 118
    Nonfiction

    Fall 2012

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Patricia Hampl

    The Fall 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Patricia Hampl. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Award-winning memoirist and author Patricia Hampl (The Florist’s Daughter, I Could Tell You Stories) compiles this all-essay issue of Ploughshares. Showcasing the diversity…

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    Issue # 117

    Spring 2012

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Nick Flynn

    The Spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Nick Flynn. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This issue, guest-edited by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn, contains a diverse collection of poems, essays, and stories, from Eric Fair’s essay Consequence, on…

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    Issue # 116

    Winter 2011-12

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    Alice Hoffman

    The Winter 2011-2012 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This 40th anniversary issue edited by best-selling novelist Alice Hoffman (The Dovekeepers, Practical Magic) features new work from Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy,…

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    Issue # 115

    Fall 2011

    $6.99 – $14.00
    Guest Editor
    DeWitt Henry

    The Fall 2011 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by DeWitt Henry. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This special 40th anniversary issue edited by Ploughshares co-founder DeWitt Henry features new work from former guest editors like Alice Hoffman, Sue Miller, and…

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