Fall 2012
Price range: $6.99 through $14.00The Fall 2012 issue, guest edited by Patricia Hampl, features nonfiction prose by Xu Xi, Kimberly Meyer, and more. Cover art by L.K. Hanson.
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 2012 issue, guest edited by Patricia Hampl, features nonfiction prose by Xu Xi, Kimberly Meyer, and more. Cover art by L.K. Hanson.

The Spring 2012 issue, guest edited by Nick Flynn, features poetry and prose by Eric Fair, Major Jackson, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Angela Pneuman. Cover art by Douglas Padgett.

The Winter 2011-2012 issue, guest edited by Alice Hoffman, features poetry and prose by Ursula K. Le Guin, Jennifer Haigh, and more, along with work by our first Emerging Writer’s Contest winner Thomas Lee, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Christine Sneed. Cover art by Barbara Takenaga.

The Fall 2011 issue, guest edited by DeWitt Henry, features poetry and prose by Alice Hoffman, Sue Miller, and more. Cover art by Richard Baker.

The Spring 2011 issue, guest edited by Colm Tóibín, features poetry and prose by Eavan Boland, Nick Laird, and more. Cover art by Valerie Brennan.

The Winter 2010-11 issue, guest edited by Terrance Hayes, features poetry and prose by Wanda Coleman, Ben Percy, and more, along an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Julia Story. Cover art by Ellen Gallagher.

The Fall 2010 issue, guest edited by Jim Shepard, features prose by Charles Baxter, Aimee Bender, and more. Cover art by Bernd and Hilla Becher.

The Spring 2010 issue, guest edited by Elizabeth Strout, features poetry and prose by Amy Hempel, Paula Bohince, and more. Cover art by Varujan Boghosian.

The Winter 2009-10 issue, guest edited by Tony Hoagland, features poetry and prose by Howard Altmann, Rebecca Makkai, and more, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Paul Yoon. Cover art by James Wm. Dawson.

The Fall 2009 issue, guest edited Kathryn Harrison, nonfiction prose by Cynie Corey, Louise DeSalvo, and more. Cover art by Noel Baelber.

The Spring 2009 issue, guest edited by Eleanor Wilner, features poetry and prose by Maxine Kumin, Jess Row, and more. Cover art by Chris Pelletiere.

The Winter 2008-2009 issue, guest edited by Jean Valentine, features poetry and prose by Peter Selgin, Jessica Greenbaum, and more, along with an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Susan Hutton. Cover art by Paul Resika.

The Fall 2008 issue features longform prose by Alex Rose, Mary Swan, and more. Cover art by Eric Garnick.

The Spring 2008 issue, guest edited by B. H. Fairchild, features poetry and prose by Maile Meloy, Bob Hicok, and more. Cover art by Pete Shelby.

The Winter 2007-2008 issue, guest edited by Philip Levine, features poetry and prose by Billy Collins, Jennifer Haigh, and more, along with an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Ander Monson. Cover art by Michael Mazur.

The Fall 2007 issue, guest edited by Andrea Barrett, features longform prose by Bret Anthony Johnson, Ellen Litman, and more. Cover art by Lisa Nilsson.
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