A look back at 2020 – award nominees, staff favorites and more.
2020 Year-End Review Part II: Reflection on Past Issues
Year: 2020
Alumni and Contributor Updates: Fall 2020
Here’s what our past contributors and alumni are up to!
REVIEW: Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued (translated by Samuel Rutter)
One of our first natural reactions when we hear of a pre-meditated murder is to ask a simple, one-word question: “Why?”
Interview: Eileen Cronin, Author of Mermaid
Had we never had the Trump era, I’d probably still be writing essays like I used to, working to conceal my anger…
WRITING LIFE: How I Renewed My Enthusiasm for Writing by Erica M. Dolson
I started to watch Jane the Virgin during a summer when my writing had become monotonous…
CRAFT: For Instructors – Workshop Dynamics in the Zoom Room by Michelle Levy
Does anyone else freshen their breath before a Zoom meeting? I do.
REVIEW: World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The first chapter of World of Wonders… opens with a Catalpa Tree in western Kansas. The tree is both literal and metaphor.
REVIEW: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina
I read fewer books this year than any year of my adulthood. But then a poet recommended Of Color, by Jaswinder Bolina, on social media.
2020 Year-End Review Part I: Our Best of the Net & Pushcart Prize Nominations
We are delighted to announce our six Pushcart Prize nominations and two Sundress Publications Best of the Net nominations.
In That River I Saw Him Again by Catherine Young
Endless streams of coal trains coursed in and out of my childhood in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley…
