Ploughshares publishes issues four times a year. Two of these issues are guest-edited by different, prominent authors. The other two issues are edited by our staff editors, one a mix of poetry and prose and the other long-form prose.
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The Fall 2021 issue features longform prose by Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsheen Farhadi, and more. Cover art by Soo Hong.
The Summer 2021 issue, guest edited by Aimee Bender, features prose by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Rumaan Alam, Mona Awad, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Vincent Yu. Cover art by Jennifer Warren.
The Spring 2021 issue, guest edited by Laura van den Berg, features poetry and prose by Helen Phillips, Fernando A. Flores, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Kaitlyn Greenidge. Cover art by Annie Weatherwax.
The Winter 2020-21 issue features poetry and prose by Nick Arvin, Gina Ochsner, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Jeremiah Barker, Sofia Puente-Lay, Mariya Zilberman, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Jill Osier. Cover art by Balint Zsako.
The Fall 2020 issue features longform prose by Michelle Herman, John Elizabeth Stintzi, and more. Cover art by Mongezi Ncaphayi.
The Summer 2020 issue, guest edited by Celeste Ng, features prose by Charles Yu, Jamel Brinkley, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Kiley Reid. Cover art by Mari Ito.
The Spring 2020 issue, guest edited by Tracy K, Smith, features poetry and prose by Kirstin Valdez Quade, Dawn Lundy Martin, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Mario Alberto Zambrano. Cover art by Monica Dixon.
The Winter 2019-20 issue features poetry and prose by Nick Arvin, Sallie Tisdale, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Jung Hae Chae, Aurielle Marie, and Ruby Todd, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Xuan Juliana Wang. Cover art by Jesse Mockrin.
The Fall 2019 issue features longform prose by Andrea Barrett, Kiley Reid, and more. Cover art by Karel Martens.
The Summer 2019 issue, guest edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, features prose by Roxane Gay, Elizabeth Strout, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Belle Boggs. Cover art by Yuko Shimizu.
The Spring 2019 issue, guest edited by Rigoberto González, features poetry and prose by Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Dantiel W. Moniz. Cover art by Tino Rodriguez.
The Winter 2018-19 issue features poetry and prose by Ellen Bass, Tom Jenks, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Anne de Marcken, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Laura Price Steele, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Kaveh Akbar. Cover art by Leon Spilliaert.
The Fall 2018 issue features longform prose by Jill McCorkle, Allen Gee, and more. Cover art by Jonas Wood.
The Summer 2018 issue, guest edited by Jill McCorkle, features poetry and prose by Wendell Berry, Ron Rash, Eileen Pollack, and more. Cover art by David Pohl.
The Spring 2018 issue, guest edited by Lan Samantha Chang, features poetry and prose by Sandra Cisneros, Terrance Hayes, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Victor LaValle. Cover art by Sara Bright.
The Winter 2017-18 issue features poetry and prose by Alice Hoffman, Paige Lewis, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Ellen Adams, Rowan Beaird, and Andy Eaton, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Weike Wang. Cover art by Cecila Biagini.
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