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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.
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.
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.
Sam Cornish’s 1935 is a memoir of growing up black in Baltimore during the Depression and World War II. Melding autobiography, poetry, and fiction, the author, like John Dos Passos before him, creates a collage of American experience which allows him to weave twenty years of African-American family life into the life of a nation….
Stories and essays by Hugh Coyle, Carolyn Ferrell, Edward Hamlin, Lisa Horiuchi, Rachel Kondo, Michael Lowenthal, Eli Mandel, Uche Okonkwo, Tim Parrish Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, appear together in this fifth annual print collection. Travel to Belize with a retired businessman desperate for a new…
Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection. Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over the edge. Meet a newly divorced lecturer of critical…
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…
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…
The Fall 2009 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Kathryn Harrison. This special nonfiction issue of Ploughshares features work from many talented authors. The volume also includes a profile of Harrison, an introduction by Harrison, as well as book reviews and more.
Intimate Exile Issue The Fall 1994 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Rosellen Brown. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This is the first issue of Ploughshares dedicated solely to the personal essay, and subtitled “Intimate Exile.” Acclaimed novelist, essayist,…
The Fall 1984 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Anne Bernays & Justin Kaplan. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Criticism Issue The Fall 1978 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by DeWitt Henry, and focusing on literary criticism. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
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