Anthologies
In these eleven stories—collected from the first year of Platypus Press’ Shorts digital fiction series—we meet a jaded group of teenagers as they gather by the river to avoid their strained home lives, a servant haunted by his kindly master in the stifling summer heat, and a lost daughter still searching for her mother. Travel through time: over mountains, across islands, to a dystopian near-future, to the places where families and memories are scattered like dreams. Featuring stories from: Beth Hahn, Jae Kim, Leesa Cross-Smith, Kristen Arnett, Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, Hala Alyan, Jennifer Tseng, Jimin Han, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Jenny Wu. Anthology edited by Michelle Tudor.
How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal readers regularly return to for insightful essays from skilled writers at every stage of their careers. Featuring examples of nonfiction forms such as memoir, narrative, lyric, braided, hermit crab, and hybrid, The Best of Brevity brings you 84 of the best-loved and most memorable reader favorites, collected in print for the first time. Compressed to their essence, these essays glint with drama, grief, love, and anger, as well as innumerable other lived intensities, resulting in an anthology that is as varied as it is unforgettable, leaving the reader transformed. With contributions from Krys Malcolm Belc, Jenny Boully, Brian Doyle, Roxane Gay, Daisy Hernández, Michael Martone, Ander Monson, Patricia Park, Kristen Radtke, Diane Seuss, Abigail Thomas, Jia Tolentino, and so many more, The Best of Brevity offers unparalleled diversity of style, form, and perspective for those interested in reading, writing, or teaching the flash nonfiction form.
BACOPA LITERARY REVIEW 2021, PUBLISHED BY WRITERS ALLIANCE OF GAINESVILLE, IS THE TWELFTH ANNUAL VOLUME OF OUR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, IN PRINT AND DIGITAL. FICTION Tomas Baiza (First Prize), Fern F. Musselwhite (Second Prize), Ardsheer Ali, Rebecca Anderson, Adwoa Armah-Tettah, Shuly Xóchtil Cawood, Elizabeth Christopher, David Gambino, Mirela Hristova, Mairead Hurley, Alec Kissoondyal, Janet Marugg, Monathan McLelland, Linda McMullen, William Nuessle, Michael O'Connell, Somto Ihezue Onyedikachi, David Partington, Mandira Pattnaik, Scott Ragland, Anne Whitehouse CREATIVE NONFICTION Gerald O. Ryan (First Prize), Lora Straub (Second Prize), Adam Knight, Jennifer Lang, E.D. Lloyd-Kimbrel, Alice Lowe, Dutch Simmons POETRY Shana Ross (First Prize), Shoshauna Shy (Second Prize), Jessica Barksdale, Steven Beauchamp, Helen Bournas-Ney, E.H. Cowles, M. Cynthia Cheung, Shauna Clifton, Selena Cotte, Barbara Dobrocki, Atreyee Gupta, Patrick Cabello Hansel, Jean Harper, Holly M. Hofer, Jeanne Julian, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Frederick Livingston, Kurt Luchs, Carolyn Martin, Jill Michelle, Sergio A. Ortiz, Timi Sanni, Gianna Sannipoli, Claire Scott, Travis Stephens, Megan Wildhood PROSE POETRY Nicole Farmer (FIrst Prize), Les Epstein (Second Prize), Claire Bateman, Wendy BooydeGraaff, Kym Cunningham, Matthew Dettmer, Jennifer Grant, Amie Heisserman, Sarah McCartt-Jackson, Arthur McMaster, Jeremiah O'Hagan, Rae Rozman, Amanda Trout, Danae Younge EDITORIAL TEAM Mary Bast (Editor in Chief), J.N. Fishhawk (Associate Editor/Poetry Editor), J. Nishida (Fiction Editor), Stephanie Seguin (Creative Nonfiction Editor), Kaye Linden (Visiting Editor, Prose Poetry) PUBLISHING TEAM Richard Skinner (layout/cover design), Grayson May (cover art) To see all writers and poets previously published in Bacopa Literary Review, visit us at https://writersalliance.org/bacopa-literary-review