Issues

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.

  • Summer 2021 Vol. 4.72
    Issue #148

    Summer 2021

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.

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  • Spring 2021 Vol. 4.71
    Issue #147

    Spring 2021

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.   

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  • Winter 2020-21 Vol. 4.64
    Issue #146
    Fiction

    Winter 2020-21

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00

    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. 

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    Issue #145

    Fall 2020

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2020 issue features longform prose by Michelle Herman, John Elizabeth Stintzi, and more. Cover art by Mongezi Ncaphayi.

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  • Summer 2020 Vol. 4.62
    Issue #144
    Fiction

    Summer 2020

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.

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  • Spring 2020 Vol. 4.61
    Issue #143

    Spring 2020

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.

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    Issue #142
    Fiction

    Winter 2019-20

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    The Winter 2019-20 issue features poetry and prose by Nick Arvin, Sallie Tisdale, and more.

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    Issue #141

    Fall 2019

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2019 issue features longform prose by Andrea Barrett, Kiley Reid, and more. Cover art by Karel Martens.

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    Issue #140

    Summer 2019

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.   

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    Issue #139

    Spring 2019

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.

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    Issue #138

    Winter 2018-19

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00

    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.

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  • Cover for Fall 2018
    Issue #137

    Fall 2018

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2018 issue features longform prose by Jill McCorkle, Allen Gee, and more. Cover art by Jonas Wood.

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  • Cover for Summer 2018
    Issue #136
    Fiction

    Summer 2018

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.

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  • Cover for Spring 2018
    Issue #135

    Spring 2018

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    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.

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  • Cover for Winter 2017-18 Vol. 43.4
    Issue #134

    Winter 2017-18

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00

    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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  • Cover for Summer 2017 Vol. 43.2
    Issue #133

    Summer 2017

    Price range: $6.99 through $14.00
    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2017 issue, guest edited by Stewart O’Nan, features prose by Stephen King, Christie Hodgen, and more. Cover art by Katherine Bradford.

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