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XLIV Pushcart Prize & 2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations

Congratulations to our XLIV Pushcart
and 2019 Best Small Fictions nominations!

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Only the Gentle, Only the Strong” by Samuel J Fox
Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell
Don’t Feed the Yao Guai!” by Colee Wong
Queynte” by John Repp
Tasha Yar At Her Best” by Shanti Weiland
Instructions for Those Who Have Learned Not to Cry” by Alex Vigue

 

BSF

Bad Trip” by Meg Tuite
‘Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1927’ by Ansel Adams” by Eric Dean Wilson
Good Guess” by Kristine Langley Mahler
Variables” by Nora Bonner
On Your Way to and Mostly After a Car Wreck” by Marvin Shackelford

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2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Congratulations to our nominations for this year’s
Best of the Net!

Lineage” by Jay Douglas

Only the Gentle, Only the Strong” by Samuel J Fox

Neo” by Tyrek Greene

Peter Discovers Wrinkles in His Shadow” by Shahé Mankerian

(of use)” by Megan Merchant

Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell

Two Eggs” by Rebecca Schumejda

Rapture of the Deep” by CJ Spataro

The Immigrant, 1909” by Kenneth Wolman

Don’t Feed the Yao Guai!” by Colee Wong

For information on the Best of the Net anthology, visit Sundress Publications.
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Issue #26 – The Lyric Essay

That which at first appears to be a lyric essay may be something else, just as the converse may also be true. And that which at first appears real, under scrutiny, demonstrates a deficit of reality. So writers use language to shore up cordons around the insufficiently-real object or phrase or event precisely so that she may vivisect it into a desired product, torture it into manageability.

Read the full guest editor letter from Wes Jamison

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Guest Editor’s Spotlight:
Only the Gentle, Only the Strong by Samuel J Fox

A Brief History of Women and Failure by Kristen Holt-Browning

A Wish You Must Cultivate by Bill Wolak

Good Guess by Kristine Langley Mahler

A Requirement Unrequited by Emily Townsend

3. I Forgot the Stance of Cliffs Meeting Water by Anne Gorrick

Variables by Nora Bonner

Don’t Feed the Yao Guai! by Colee Wong

Rorschach Research by Ivars Balkits

“Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1927” by Ansel Adams by Eric Dean Wilson

Dissonance by Cover Artist Ann Bowler

That Thing That You Don’t Talk About by Dennis Humphrey

Rachel Nix Interviews Samuel J Fox of Bending Genres

Rachel Nix Interviews Wes Jamison


About Our Guest Editor

 

Wes Jamison Editor PicWes Jamison’s work appears or is forthcoming in 1913, Diagram, Fifth Wednesday, Essay Press, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

 

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