Ploughshares publishes four times a year. Two of these issues are guest-edited by writers we invite to curate their issues. The other two issues are edited by our staff editors, one a mix of poetry and prose and the other a mix of longform poetry and prose.
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The Fall 2022 issue features longform prose by E. K. Ota, Ben Stroud, and more. Cover art by David Thuku.
The Summer 2022 issue, guest edited by Jamel Brinkley, features prose by Rav Grewal-Kök, Arinze Ifeakandu, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Christie Hodgen. Cover art by Anna Valdez.
The Spring 2022 issue, guest edited by Ilya Kaminsky, features poetry and prose by Sheila Black, Andres Cerpa, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner Fei Sun. Cover art by Amy Kim.
The Winter 2021-22 issue features poetry and prose by Weike Wang, Fei Sun, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Meghan E. O’Toole, Madeline Vosch, Margaret Wright, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Jamil Jan Kochai. Cover art by Chih-Hung KUO.
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.
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