Issue 71: Fall 2025 is Here!

Dear Readers,

We are excited to share some exciting new writing for Issue 71: Fall 2025, as well as the winners and runners-up of the 2025 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence! Once you've enjoyed those delectable and prize-winning literary morsels, turn your attention to the rest of another exceptional issue!

In fiction, check out "Syazwani" by Marcel Goh, "One for Ten" by Gary Barwin, and A Bloom of Jellyfish by Danila Botha.

Our hybrid section features a piece from outgoing section editor William Dao, as well as a piece entitled "Queer Dance" by Charlie Petch (with ASL interpretation by Gaitrie Persaud/Phoenix The Fire.)

Over in poetry, read excerpts from Drew McEwan's Furniture Music, When it’s 9:48 m. and the kids are asleep... by Nicole Boyce, excerpts from E. M. Palitha Edirisooriya Life on Three Wheels / මාවතේ ත්‍රීවිල් ජීවිතේ, translated by Kasun Pathirage and samodH Porawagamage, "Autumn as a Lo-Fi Youtube Video" by Rhys Owain Williams, Shukr-Alhamdulillah by Maryam A. Ghafoor, and 小作文 by Yan Zhang.

This issue's essays are Trabaho by Adam Arca and "BE NOT AFRAID!" by Hannah Keziah Agustin.

Read conversations between Michael DeForge and Sara Black McCulloch and Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Casper Orr in the interviews section.

Last but not least, we have a review of jaz papadopoulos' I Feel That Way Too by Janet Pollock Millar and Mikhail Iossel's Sentence by Pamela Hensley.

Happy reading!

- The Editors