Issue 27: Fall 2014 Is Here at Long Last!

Dear Artists, Writers, Editors, and Friends! We are pleased to announce the launch of the very cool fall issue! Issue 27: Fall 2014 features all new fiction, poetry, interviews, and an essay, and proudly toasts the winners of the Third Annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence, judged by Margaret Atwood and Zsuzsi Gartner! Plunge into Daniel Scott Tysdal’s prize-winning story, “1 Dog, 1 Knife,” and continue the fiction trend by reading new works by Amanda Leduc, Sam Shelstad, Jowita Bydlowska, and Kenan Orhan Dannenberg. Check out Laurie D Graham’s prize-winning poem, “Battleford Gravesite,” and keep those line breaks coming with new poems by Stuart Ross, Angela Hibbs, Alice Burdick, LeeAnn Olivier, Kevin McLellan, Elisa Gonzalez, Sara Biggs Chaney, Jessica Bebenek, Garry Thomas Morse, gillian harding-russell, Chad Campbell, Shawn Fawson, Jenna Jarvis, Katie Jordon, and Kenzie Allen! But don’t stop there! Move on to read Jeremy Hanson-Finger’s essay on the sometimes hysterical debate surrounding MFAs, “Top of the Muffin to You! Or, the Paranoid Style in Arguments against the Fiction MFA System.” Then cap off your fall reading experience by indulging in two long interviews: Malcolm Sutton’s cerebral conversation with adventurous novelist Marianne Apostolides, “Self-Control,” and Nicholas Herring’s long and intimate chat with mystery- and crime-writer John McFetridge, “Write What You Want to See Next.” It’s great to be back! Now tuck in to a cold fall with red-hot readings from Issue 27: Fall 2014!