Judge: Harrison Scott Key DEADLINE: April 9th! PRIZE: $500 and publication in Phoebe 45.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $10 SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words. Harrison...
Lyn Lifshin you don’t seem to care about what i’m giving next thing i’m doing a strip tease we’re in the snow together but your icy cock, what are we doing here jesus i can’t even look in...
Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of the novel No One is Here Except All of Us, published by Riverhead Books in 2012, and a collection of short stories A Guide to...
2014 Contest Winners 2014 Greg Grummer Poetry Award Judged by Eduardo C. Corral Winner: dawn lonsinger, Swap Runner-Up: Michael Mlekoday, from I Think I’m Almost Ready to See the Ocean ...
Cathy Park Hong after Omar Fast When I listen to you, I feel heroic. I drink gin that tastes like gasoline and hear Mama roja in the toilet. I am the heir to nothing in particular. I want love...
OO EE AH. A’BIGGITY BIGGITY BOO I—got a fever. And the only cure for it. Is a suicide note. Wrapped in the flensed flesh headdress of a book review I criticize I...
This year’s recipient of the National Book Award in Nonfiction is Katherine Boo, for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. In...
While I won’t reveal where I come down on the question of whether Frederick Seidel is “the best poet we have” in contemporary American poetry, I think anyone familiar with his career would...