Issues
All issues are published as a podcast and are available through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and almost anywhere else you get podcasts. We try, as often as we can, to publish the work in the author's own voice. We release a variety of issue types throughout the month including our Themed Issues, [Tapes From The Outside], and Dialogue Submissions. Check back regularly - or subscribe to the podcast - to hear our new issues when we release them. Hope you enjoy!
Issues //
2020 //
- Themed Issue - In Response, November 2020 (Guest Editor: Trish Hopkinson) //
- Themed Issue - Gender Body Horror, October 2020 (Guest Editor: Woody Woodger) //
- Themed Issue - Shadow, September 2020 (Guest Editor: Beverly Army Williams) //
- Themed Issue - Metamorphosis, August 2020 (Guest Editor: Felicia Connolly //
- Themed Issue - Ancestors, Ghosts, Listen; July 2020 (Guest Editor: W. Todd Kaneko) //
- Issue 7.7B - Poetry, July 2020 //
- Issue 7.7A - Non-Fiction, July 2020 //
- Themed Issue - Sound Work, June 2020 (Guest Editor: Sandra Marchetti) //
- Issue 7.6B - Poetry, June 2020 //
- Issue 7.6A - Fiction, June 2020 //
- Themed Issue - Atrocities, May 2020 (Guest Editor: Gloria Mindock) //
- Issue 7.5 - Prose, May 2020 //
- Themed Issue - Parents & Children, April 2020 (Guest Editor: Amorak Huey) //
- Issue 7.4B - Poetry, April 2020 //
- Issue 7.4A - Fiction, April 2020 //
- Themed Issue - Buyer's Remorse, March 2020 (Guest Editor: Simeon Berry) //
- Issue 7.3B - Poetry, March 2020 //
- Issue 7.3A - Fiction, March 2020 //
- Themed Issue - Reverence, February 2020 (Guest Editor: Brendan Walsh) //
- Issue 7.2B - Poetry, February 2020 //
- Issue 7.2A - Non-Fiction, February 2020 //
- Themed Issue - Dystopia, January 2020 (Guest Editor: Kelly Boyker) //
- Issue 7.1B - Poetry, January 2020 //
- Issue 7.1A - Fiction, January 2020 //
2019 //
2018 //
2017 //
2016 //
BACK ISSUES //
Themed Issue - In Response, November 2020 (Guest Editor: Trish Hopkinson) //
|
|
Trish Hopkinson (Guest Editor) has always loved words—in fact, her mother tells everyone she was born with a pen in her hand. She has been published in several anthologies and journals, including Stirring, Pretty Owl Poetry, and The Penn Review; and her third chapbook Footnote was published by Lithic Press in 2017. Hopkinson is co-founder of a regional poetry group, Rock Canyon Poets, and Editor-in-Chief of the group’s annual poetry anthology entitled Orogeny. She is a product director by profession and resides in Utah with her handsome husband and their two outstanding children. You can follow Hopkinson on her blog where she shares information on how to write, publish, and participate in the greater poetry community. |
Rikki Santer’s ("Double Vanitas") poetry has received many honors including five Pushcart and three Ohioana book award nominations as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her next, full-length collection, How to Board a Moving Ship, is forthcoming from Lily Poetry Review Books. |
Kate J Wilson’s ("The Impossibility of Love") work has appeared in 14 Magazine, The Pandemic Poetry Anthology (Gloucester Poets), the Pendle Anthology of War Poetry, and Mookychick’s inaugural anthology, The Medusa Project. Her debut pamphlet, One Night in January is due from Wild Pressed Books in 2021. |
Pat Phillips West's ("View of the Universe: Stellar Nebula") work appears in various journals including: Persimmon Tree, The Inquisitive Eater New School Food, Haunted Waters Press, Clover, a Literary Rag, San Pedro River Review, Slipstream, and elsewhere. She has received multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations. |
Joyce Hayden ("Deliberate") retired from her university teaching position to travel and to pursue more creative endeavors. She recently completed her memoir, The Out of Body Girl. Her work can be found in Cimarron Review, Al Jazeera English, The Manifest Station, and other journals. |
Find work by Koss ("Colleen Does the DIA - Rivera - Kahlo Show") in Hobart, Cincinnati Review, Spillway, Diode Poetry, Five Points and many others. She also has work in or forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2020, a Diode anthology, and Kissing Dynamite’s Punk Anthology. Her book, One for Sorrow, is due out in early 2021. |
Susan Weaver ("Benedicion for Armando Passy"), a former bicycling and travel journalist, writes free verse and tanka, a Japanese form. She contributes regularly to tanka and other journals and is tanka prose editor for the Tanka Society of America's journal, Ribbons. She lives in Allentown, Pa., with her husband, Joseph Skrapits, and two cats. |
Mary Elder Jacobsen’s ("In One Mother's Voice at Moth-Hour") poetry has appeared widely in print and online journals and has been selected for Poetry Daily and various anthologies. She lives in Vermont where she works as a writer, editor, artist, and community volunteer helping to nurture natural, historic, and artistic spaces so that they remain vital. |
Wai-Mei Chan ("Croissant") experiments with life and writing in London, UK. Her writing explores themes of culture, perspectives and the difficult conversations we have with ourselves and others. Her flash fiction appears in the Wombwell Rainbow and poetry features in the Trouvaille Review and Alien Buddha Press. |
Nancy Jorgensen ("A Minor Monster") is a Wisconsin writer and musician. Her 2019 memoir, “Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold,” is co-written with daughter Elizabeth Jorgensen and published by Meyer & Meyer Sport. Her choral education books are published by Hal Leonard Corporation and Lorenz Corporation. Other works appear at Prime Number Magazine, Cagibi, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, CHEAP POP, Brevity blog and elsewhere. |
Barbara Tyler ("Miles Davis") is a visual artist currently living in East Texas. She began writing poetry to cope with mid-life issues. Her poems have appeared in the poetic community collections of Orogeny and Inspired. She is also the author of two chapbooks combining both her artwork and poetry.
Themed Issue - Gender Body Horror, October 2020 (Guest Editor: Woody Woodger) //
|
|
Woody Woodger (Guest Editor) lives in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, from DIAGRAM, Drunk Monkeys, RFD, Exposition Review, peculiar, Prairie Margins, Rock and Sling, and Mass Poetry Festival, among others, and her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net. Her first chapbook, “postcards from glasshouse drive” (Finishing Line Press) has been nominated for the 2018 Massachusetts Book Awards. In addition, Woodger served as Poet in Residence with the Here and Now in Pittsfield, MA. |
Judith Pratt ("Exploitation of Fat") has been an actor, a director, and a teacher. she studied playwriting with Lois Weaver, Arthur Kopit, Stuart Spence, Laura Maria Censabella, and Liz Duffy Adams. Most recently, her play Maize was selected by Louisiana State University SciArts as one of three recipients of the inaugural SciArts at LSU Playwriting Prize. Her novel, Siljeea Magic, was indie-published in 2019. |
Alex Andy Phuong ("Gender Body Horror") earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University—Los Angeles in 2015. He was a former Statement Magazine editor who currently writes passionately. He has written film reviews for MovieBoozer, and has contributed to Mindfray. He writes hoping to inspire the ones who dream. |
Jennifer Met ("Uncanny Means Unknowable, but You Kinda Know [Especially When Dating a Wannabe Entomologist]) lives in a small town in North Idaho. Recent work can be found in Cimarron Review, Juked, Midway Journal, Nimrod, Ninth Letter, and Zone 3. She’s an Assistant Prose Poetry Editor for Pithead Chapel and is the author of Gallery Withheld (Glass Poetry). |
Themed Issue - Shadow, September 2020 (Guest Editor: Beverly Army Williams) //
|
|
Beverly Army Williams (Guest Editor) is a writer and writing teacher, teaching creative writing, composition, grant writing, and business and technical writing at Westfield State University. Her writing has appeared in Knitty.com, Interweave Crochet, Dandelion Review, and Project 333 among other places, and she co-edits the webzine MotherShould.com. Beverly works as ghost writer and writing consultant for makers and creative writers. |
Sayuri Ayers ("Cloak of Skins") is a native of Columbus, Ohio. Her prose and poetry appear in the Columbia Journal, The Account, Entropy, SWWIM, Hobart, The Pinch, and other literary journals. She is the author of two chapbooks: Radish Legs, Duck Feet (Green Bottle Press, 2016) and Mother/Wound (Full/Crescent Press, 2020). Sayuri is a Kundiman Fellow and VCCA Resident. In 2020, Sayuri received the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award for creative nonfiction. |
Wilda Morris ("Walking Up Canal Street in San Miguel de Allende after Dark"), Workshop Chair, Poets and Patrons of Chicago, has been shadowed by poetry from childhood, when her grandmother recited poems for her. Wilda has published hundreds of poems, and has won awards for formal and free verse and haiku. Her poetry blog features a monthly poetry contest. |
Roy Duffield ("Some confusion over what Peter Pan syndrome might be") was honored to perform at last year’s Beat Poetry Festival in Barcelona. He has travelled over 100 countries and his writing appears in Anti-Heroin Chic, The Medley, Jalada Africa, Half-baked, Night Bus to Speakers' Corner, About Face, Wrong Way Go Back and Lucent Dreaming. |
Themed Issue - Metamorphosis, August 2020 (Guest Editor: Felicia Connolly) //
|
|
Felicia Connolly (Guest Editor) doesn't much like talking about herself, but she lives in the ArkLaTex and looks after her very loved and very spoiled pets. |
Maximillian Singh Gill ("The Trouble with Mustard Greens") was born in India and received his master’s in creative writing in California. He is currently based in New York. His work has been staged by a number of companies and festivals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. |
Eight of Judy Klass's ("The Child is the Mother of the Woman") full-length plays have been produced. Cell, an Edgar nominee, is published by Samuel French/Concord. Thirty-five of her one-acts, including The Child Is the Mother of the Woman, have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country. A few were produced in the UK and Ireland. |
Shubhra Prakash (Surrogate Reader for "The Trouble with Mustard Greens"), writer on Priya's Mask, has previously served as co-producer and voiceover artist for Priya’s Shakti. As a playwright she most recently co-wrote, produced and acted in an original play The Music In My Blood about Indian classical music that was seen by over a thousand audience members in the New York City area and the east coast. While in India, she presented a digital art exhibition in New Delhi at Kaleidoscope Digital Art gallery, “Fontwala: Stone to Mobile, what remains?” with Rajeev Prakash Khare, which shows the evolution of Indian Devanagri script and questions how digital media impacts the journey of a complex script. |
Abby LeRoy (Surrogate Reader for "The Child is the Mother of the Woman") is thrilled to participate in this project. Abby is happily employed at an education non-profit in Boston. The actor/writer/comedian graduated from Brandeis (‘20) with degrees in psychology and theater arts. Recent work includes Talking With, a scene study from Lungs, and 8 years of improv comedy. She thanks her family for their support in and out of the arts.
Themed Issue - Ancestors, Ghosts, Listen; July 2020 (Guest Editor: W. Todd Kaneko) //
|
|
W. Todd Kaneko (Guest Editor) is the author of This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence, 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies (Curbside Splendor, 2014), and co-author of Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). A Kundiman fellow, he is a former co-editor of the literary magazine Waxwing and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan where he teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University. |
Jacqueline Boucher (“I learn about Roopkund Lake the same day I learn about Okjökull”) lives and writes in Alaska, where she serves as the poetry editor for Lammergeier Magazine. A Best New Poets 2020 nominee, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal, The McNeese Review, New South, The Rupture, and other magazines. She can be found on Twitter @jacqueboucher. |
Jai Dulani ("Abundance") is a poet, writer and multimedia artist. His work has appeared in Waxwing, Foglifter, Porcupine Literary, Open City, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman, VONA/Voices, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. |
Kimberly Povloski ("genealogy with mushrooms") is a poet, educator, and caver. She was raised in Houston, Texas, but her heart belongs to the Great Pacific Northwest. Her first book, hell of birds, was chosen by Erica Dawson as the winner of the 2018 Adrift Chapbook Contest and published by Driftwood Press. |
Steve Mueske ("Poem with the Ghost of Larry Levis") is an electronic musician and the author of a chapbook and two books of poetry. His poems have appeared recently in The Iowa Review, Water~Stone Review, Cream City Review, The Pinch Journal, The Normal School, Jet Fuel Review, Verse Daily and elsewhere. |
Linda Chavers ("Black American Lullaby") is a writer and scholar whose work focuses on the intersections of race, gender and everyday life. She lives in Cambridge, MA where she is a Lecturer in African American Studies at Harvard University. She teaches and writes non-fiction on disability, relationships and pop culture. She loves boxing and spin class and when she's not consuming reality television she is spending quality time with her 5 year old west highland terrier, Biggie Smalls. |
Mia Ayumi Malhotra ("This House So Full of Ghosts") is the author of Isako Isako, California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She recently received the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize. |
Kelli Russell Agodon ("When You Are a Ghost, I'll Also Love Your Shadow") is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press. Her book, Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, won the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Prize for poetry. Her next collection of poems, Dialogues with Rising Tides, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2021. |
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez’s ("Ghost Worlds") first book, The Way of All Flux, won the New Rivers Press MVP Poetry Prize. Originally from Kaneohe, Hawaii, she now lives in Tempe, Arizona--on the traditional homeland of the Akimel O’odham. |
AE Hines ("This Morning After the Riots") is a poet living in Portland, Oregon. He is a recent Pushcart nominee and his work has appeared in numerous publications, including: Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Briar Cliff Review, Burningword Literary Journal, Hawaii Pacific Review, I-70 Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, and SLAB. |
Amit Majmudar ("Hurricane Seeds") is a novelist, poet, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist. His newest poetry collection is What He Did in Solitary (Knopf, 2020). |
Angela Maria Spring ("How Many of These Empires Have to Fall") is the owner of Duende District, a mobile boutique bookstore by and for people of color. She holds an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and you can find her recent poems in PANK, Radar Poetry, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and forthcoming in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Pilgrimage. Her essays and reviews are at Catapult, LitHub and Tor.com. Follow her online at Twitter at @BurquenaBoricua. |
Summer J. Hart ("Salt for the Stain") is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Maine, living in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her written and visual narratives are influenced by folklore, superstition, divination, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. |
Fatima Malik ("Telephone") is a Pakistani-American poet with work forthcoming in dreams walking, perhappened mag, seiren quarterly, and the winnow. She received a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and a joint MA in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies from NYU. Malik is currently working on her first collection of poems. |
Laraine Herring's ("The Air Between Us") work has most recently appeared in The New York Times. Her forthcoming book, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens, will be released in 2021 from Regal House. Past books include Writing Begins with the Breath, and Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss. |
Arielle Amante (Surrogate Reader for "Poem with the Ghost of Larry Levis" and "Ghost Worlds") is a poet and speculative fiction writer whose work delves into surrealism, colorful headspaces, and fever dreams of morally ambiguous demons, androids, and homo sapiens. A particular signature of hers is lacing every piece with a textured touch that shamelessly arouses the senses and invades with politeness. |
Issue 7.7B - Poetry, July 2020 //
|
|
Dane Fogdall ("God's Cigarette") is a writer and podcaster from Colorado, he works as a specialist for the Allen Ginsberg Library at Naropa University. His work has been featured in Borrowed Solace, Juniper Poetry and The Literary Nest. His improvised narrative podcast, Diceology, can be found on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. |
R. Benedito Ferrão ("Degenerate") has lived and worked in Asia, Europe, N. America, and Oceania. He teaches at The College of William and Mary and was recently a Fulbright Fellow in Goa. His writing can be read in The Good Men Project, Mizna, The João Roque Literary Journal, and other publications. |
Issue 7.7A - Non-Fiction, July 2020 //
Kelly Craig ("Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: Diegetic Music and Imagined Future Selves") is a writer originally from Las Vegas, Nevada. She's currently pursuing a PhD in literary and cultural studies at the University of Utah, where she also teaches composition and contemporary literature. Her fiction has appeared in Litro Magazine, Sakura Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, Leopardskin and Limes, and Bodega Magazine.
Themed Issue - Sound Work, June 2020 (Guest Editor: Sandra Marchetti) //
|
|
Sandra Marchetti (Guest Editor) is the author of Confluence, a full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays, including Sight Lines (Speaking of Marvels Press, 2016), Heart Radicals (ELJ Publications, 2016), A Detail in the Landscape (Eating Dog Press, 2014), and The Canopy (MWC Press, 2012). Sandra’s poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, River Styx, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at The Rumpus, Whiskey Island, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage in the Chicagoland area. |
Monica Barron ("Prairie Architecture") lives, writes, edits, and teaches in Missouri. She is the Nonfiction editor of wordpeace, a digital social justice project. Her book of poems, Prairie Architecture, was published by Golden Antelope Press in 2020. Recent poems on ecotheo review web site. |
Jen Karetnick ("Rondeau for the Millennial Whoop") is the author of five full-length poetry collections, including Hunger Until It's Pain (Salmon Poetry, forthcoming spring 2023); The Burning Where Breath Used to Be (David Robert Books, forthcoming August 2020); and The Treasures That Prevail (Whitepoint Press, September 2016), finalist for the 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Prize. She is also the author of five poetry chapbooks, including The Crossing Over (March 2019), winner of the 2018 Split Rock Review Chapbook Competition. Co-founder and managing editor of SWWIM Every Day, Jen is currently a Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence. |
Awil Onuag ("Off the Rocker") started writing professionally in 2007 after a chance encounter with one of the Co-Founders of Hidden Beach Recordings. In 2009, Awil began songwriting with a former producer & recording artist under John Legend’s Homeschool Records. Currently, Awil runs a nonprofit writing program called Charles Houston Community Writers |
Ed Granger ("Ballpark Monikers") lives in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His chapbook Voices from the First Gilded Age was published in 2019 by Finishing Line Press. Poems have also appeared or are forthcoming in THINK Journal, Delmarva Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Rappahannock Review, Philadelphia Stories, and other journals. |
Stephen Scott Whitaker ("A Spotted Owl Hunting in a Brief Storm") is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the managing editor for The Broadkill Review. His poems have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Oxford Poetry, Crab Creek Review, & Third Wednesday, among other journals. Mulch, his novel of weird fiction is forthcoming from Montag Press in 2020. |
Issue 7.6B - Poetry, June 2020 //
|
|
Jenny Irish ("Mothers") is from Maine, but lives and teaches in Arizona. She is the author of the collections Common Ancestor and I Am Faithful.
Issue 7.6A - Fiction, June 2020 //
|
|
Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s writing has appeared in By Moonlight, Postcard Poems and Prose, Potato Soup Journal, Tiny Thimble Magazine, Twist in Time, Timeworn Literary Journal, and other publications. She is a former journalist, folklore columnist, and makes mixed media art with bark, pastels, fibers, and, when lucky, salmon leather
2019
Issue 6.5B - Poetry, December 2019
Published: December 20, 2019 Featuring: Gregory Crosby and Charles Kell Issue 6.5A - Mass Poetry Festival Live Dialogue Submission Winners
Published: December 10, 2019 Featuring: Sara Letourneau (poetry), Peter Urkowitz (poetry) |
Issue 6.3.1-6.3.4 - April 2019
Featuring: Lisa Mase (poetry), Nick Hilbourn (poetry), t.m. thompson (poetry), Leonard Kress (poetry), Jan LaPerle (poetry), Eliot Khalil Wilson (poetry) |
Issue 6.2 - Dialogue Submission Winners
Published: February 28, 2019 Featuring: Joyce Chigiya (music), Geoffrey Callard (poetry), Karen Faris (poetry) |
2018
Issue 5.8 - September 2018
Published: September 26, 2018 Featuring: Diane Tucker (poetry) and Benjamin Mueller (poetry) |
Issue 5.6 - June 2018
Published: June 25, 2018 Featuring: William Fargason (poetry), Matt Gillick (poetry), Alrisha Shea (poetry) Issue 5.5A+B - Dialogue Starter and May 2018
Published: May 31, 2018 Featuring: Joyce Chigiya (music), Eric Wilson-Edge (non-fiction), Trista Hurley-Waxali (non-fiction) Issue 5.4B - April 2018
Published: April 30, 2018 Featuring: Jess Mize (poetry), Jennifer MacBain-Stephens (poetry), Gabe Kahan (poetry) |
Issue 5.3 - March 2018
Published: March 26, 2018 Featuring: Deena ElGenaidi (fiction), Claire Doble (poetry) Issue 5.2 - February 2018
Published: February 28, 2018 Featuring: Donald Vincent (poetry), Sarah Sarai (poetry), Amorak Huey (poetry) |
2017
2016
Back Issues (2014-2016)
Issue 3.6B – July 2016
Released: July 30, 2016 Length: 19:29 Issue 3.6A – Dialogue Starter
Released: July 20, 2016 Length: 6:14 Issue 3.5 – June 2016
Released: June 26, 2016 Length: 13:53 Issue 3.4 – May 2016
Released: May 25, 2016 Length: 11:01 Issue 3.3 – April 2016
Released: April 25, 2016 Length: 10:08 Issue 3.2 – March 2016
Released: March 25, 2016 Length: 15:09 |
Issue 3.1 – Feb 2016
Released: February 27, 2016 Length: 11:33 Issue 2.3 – July 2015
Released: July 1, 2015 Length: 15:29 Issue 2.2B - March 2015, Non-Fiction
Released: March 31, 2015 Length: 14:02 Issue 2.2A - March 2015, Poetry
Released: March 27, 2015 Length: 21:50 Issue 1.4B – August 2014, Poetry
Released: August 31, 2014 Length: 14:54 |
Issue 1.4A – August 2014, Prose
Released: August 14, 2014 Length: 27:41 Issue 1.3 – June 2014
Released: June 2, 2014 Length: 16:34 Issue 1.2 – April 2014
Released: April 29, 2014 Length: 38:07 Issue 1.1 – March 2014
Released: March 25, 2014 Length: 7:43 |