Fall/Winter 2018-19 (purchase)

Fiction

Tom Howard, "Scarecrows"

Whitney Collins, "Drawers"

Blair Hurley, "The Retreat Welcomes You"

Dennis James Sweeney, "The Beginning" 

Nonfiction

Jennifer D. Munro, "Grooves"

TaraShea Nesbit, "A Limo Ride to Frisch's Big Boy"

Whitney Lee, "On Dissection

Poetry

Matthew Gavin Frank, "Small, Turbulent Disappointments"

Teresa Dzieglewicz, "Backpacking, Late Fall"

Emily August, "The Split Fig"

George Kovalenko "Wolfstooth" and "Serenade with Great Doom's Image"

Emily Corwin, "Outburst as Clarice Starling" and "Outburst as Laurie Strode"

Bradley Harrison, "Invisible City"

Melissa Ginsburg, "I choose the names"

Devon Walker-Figueroa, "A Galaxy Named Beloved"

Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, "Rasp"

Sophia Stid, "After Reading Julian of Norwich"

Leila Chatti, "Prayer"

Mitchell Jacobs, "None of My Friends Have Bodies Anymore"

Dylan Weir, "The Souls that Throng the Flood"

Cortney Lamar Charleston, "Concerning Citizenship" 

Special Feature

"More Like This than Any of These: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of the Trans New Wave"

Cooper Lee Bombardier 

Colette Arrand

Grace Reynolds

Ryka Aoki

Brook Shelley

Art Feature

Perfectly Acceptable Press

Where We're At

Sebastián Maldonado-Vélez, "The Inescapable Mystery of a Midwestern Pilgrimage" 

Jason Nafziger, "Rock over London, Rock on Chicago" 

Staff

Editor: Jodee Stanley

Creative Nonfiction Editor: Alex Shakar

Poetry Editor: Janice N. Harrington

Art Director: Brock Landrum 

Designers: Jessica Badofsky, Edwin Capuli, Donna Dimitrova, Andrew Harlan, Ryan Hock, Vivian Hong, Jessica Jutzi, Margaret Kots, Sydney, Kozoloski, Estefana Loret De Mola, Edgar Madrigal, Matthew Musial, Megan Myrie, Sophia Presutti, Myah Price, Miriam Salah, Kristy Vuong, Amanda Yu

Assistant Editors: Chekwube Danladi, Liz Howey, Benjamin Miller

Editorial Assistants: Kyle Callert, Katrina Gaffney, Edgar Garbelotto, Aumaine Gruich, Amelia Hawkins, Skyler LaLone, Sebastián Maldonado-Vélez, Taylor Micks, Benjamin Miller, Nicholas Molbert, Jason Nafziger, Kent Quaney, Justin Smith, Jessica Tanck

Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham

Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker

Special thanks to our guest judges for the 2018 Literary Awards: Michele Morano (fiction), sam sax (poetry), and Elissa Washuta (creative nonfiction)

Special thanks also to Editor-at-Large Philip Graham for his work on the special feature "More Like This than any of These: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of the Trans New Wave."

Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

College of Fine and Applied Arts

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Department of English

Office of the Provost

School of Art + Design

Individual Sponsors

Patron
Sarah Knox, M.D.
John Hall, M.D.

Friend
Gladys Justin Carr
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