Contributor Spotlight With the poem “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (p. 144), Rafael Campo makes his second appearance in Ploughshares, but he has been a friend to the journal for many years, volunteering as a staff poetry reader from 1988-92. During and since that period, Campo has established a reputation as a poet in…
Zacharis Award Ploughshares and Emerson College are proud to announce that Jessica Treadway has been named the 1993 recipient of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her short story collection, Absent Without Leave and Other Stories. The annual $1,500 award — which is sponsored by Emerson College and named after its former president,…
Cohen Awards Each volume year, the best poem, short story, and nonfiction piece published in Ploughshares are honored with the Cohen Awards. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners are selected by our advisory editors — comprised of current and former guest editors. Each winner receives a cash prize of $400. The awards…
Cohen Awards Each volume year, the best poem, short story, and nonfiction piece published in Ploughshares are honored with the Cohen Awards. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners are selected by our advisory editors — comprised of current and former guest editors. Each winner receives a cash prize of $400. The awards…
Cohen Awards Each volume year, the best poem, short story, and nonfiction piece published in Ploughshares are honored with the Cohen Awards. Finalists are nominated by staff editors, and the winners are selected by our advisory editors — comprised of current and former guest editors. Each winner receives a cash prize of $400. The awards…
We are proud to announce Allison Joseph as the 1992 recipient of the John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her poetry collection, What Keeps Us Here, published by Ampersand Press. The annual $1,500 award — which is named after Emerson College's former president and funded by philanthropist Eugenia Gladstone Vogel — honors the best…
We lost a very good friend, Richard Yates, on November 7, 1992. He died of emphysema and of complications from minor surgery in a Birmingham, Alabama, veterans hospital. Though largely unknown to the public in recent years, Dick Yates's reputation among writers was nonpareil. Robert Stone called Yates one of the best writers in the…
The 1992 Denise and Mel Cohen Awards for the outstanding poem, short story, and nonfiction published in Ploughshares Volume 17 Each of these awards carries a prize of $400 and is made possible through the generosity of Denise and Mel Cohen of New Orleans. The Cohen Awards are nominated and judged by the advisory and…
The 1992 Denise and Mel Cohen Awards for the outstanding poem, short story, and nonfiction published in Ploughshares Volume 17 Each of these awards carries a prize of $400 and is made possible through the generosity of Denise and Mel Cohen of New Orleans. The Cohen Awards are nominated and judged by the advisory and…
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