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Fiction
George Singleton, The
Jessica Treadway, An Interest in History*
Marc Berley, Introducing the Chicken
Melissa Pritchard, Tsunami
Gina Ochsner. Shadowlands
Alexander Almaguer, Cypress Junction
Dustin M. Hoffman, Privy
Delano S. C. Parisi, The Immortal Ontologist in the Apocalypse
Caroline Kim, The End of the Dynasty
Julio Cortázar, Bottle to the Sea (Epilogue to a Story) Translated by Harry Morales
Poetry
Holly Day, Echoes of the Dog
Michael Bazzett, Sometimes
M Sarki, Just Like Her Picture
Derek Otsuji, A Snail’s (Post)script
Nonfiction
Nicole Elizabeth Miller, Rhapsody on a Northern Light
Awards
*Best American Short Fiction (2023) Distinguished Story
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Fiction
Kevin Moffett, Eight Days
Corinna Vallianatos, Dogwood
Omer Friedlander, An Incomplete List of Things? Stolen from My Family
J.G. Parisi, The Garbage Dump Veteran Museum and Gallery
Scott Nadelson, A Theory of Harmony
Eliezra Shaffzin, Seesaw
Laura Rockefeller, The Lady on the Point
Steve Mitchel, The Return of the Capellmeister
R.D. Puller, So Ezra He Became
Chloe Chun Seim, Taco Bell Is Coming for Gypsum, Kansas
Nonfiction
J.D. Ho, The Crayfish and the Coral
Publishing in the Pandemic
Morgan Entrekin, Interview
Mark Gottlieb, Interview
Poetry
Charles Simic, My Love
Rosanna Warren, “They set about wasting the land”
Rosanna Warren, Still Life
Ayokunle Falomo, Self-Portrait with Two Circles
T.J. McLemore, Video Games
This is the Table of Contents for Issue #4, published in 2021.
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Fiction
Siobhan Fallon, The Lost Letters of Lucia Joyce
Celeste Mohammed, Santimanitay
Aryeh Lev Stollman, Dreams Emerging
A. Joachim Glage, A Note on a Note on the Paraclitans
Meghan E. O’Toole, Abditory
Blake Butler, Ex-Iconic
Marléne Zadig, Lines from Superhero Movies I’ve Seen
Nonfiction
Jill Talbot, Of Seasons
A Tribute To Edward W. Tayler
Marc Berley, Ted Tayler
Jhumpa Lahiri, Edward Tayler: In Remembrance
Paul Auster, Ted Tayler
Tony Kushner, Edward Tayler
Edward W. Tayler, Self-Help Sheet
Poetry
Ange Mlinko, Scales and Probability
Seth Brady Tucker, What We Gave
Seth Brady Tucker, The Brimming of Cigarette Butts? in Coffee Cans
Seth Brady Tucker, Like Chaff
Terese Svoboda, Verona Not Venice
John Blair, Rabbits
This Table of Contents for Issue #3, published in 2020.
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Fiction
Sigrid Nunez, The Plan*
Jamal Brinkley, No More Than a Bubble*
Justin Taylor, From an iPhone 6
George Singleton, One More
Michael Byers, Valiant
Lynda Sexson, A 2nd Look at Love at 1st Sight
Mindy Friddle, Bug Man
Michelle Sleater, Attrition
Logan Newby, The Last Good Thing
Nonfiction
Denis Donoghue, The End of the Affair
Matthew Vollmer, We All Go into the Dark
DeWitt Henry, On Bonds
Poetry
Lee Upton, Political Ambition
Cutter Streeby, Amidah: Portrait of Berenice Abbot
Ojo Taiye, The Threshold of Small Chances
? Lesions
Cheslea Dingman, Anniversary with Yellow Iris
Christopher DeWeese, From: The Confessions
AWARDS
*Best American Short Stories (2019)
This is the Table of Contents for Issue #2, which was publish in 2018.
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Fiction
Elvis Bego, The Word Is the Word
Bethany Edstrom, Hand and Foot (debut)
Kevin Moffett, City of Trees+
Chinelo Okparanta, David & Osi
Valerie O’Riordan, Bad Girl++
Bette Pesetsky, Demimonde
Emily Saso, All the Bells (debut)
Christine Sneed, In the Park****
Marc Watkins, For the Love of Broken Things
Nonfiction
Harold Bloom, Who Else Is There?
Kelly Cherry, My Beethoven+++
William H. Gass, Excerpt from Baroque Prose
Poetry
John Ashbery, Just the One Episode*
Jonathan Greenhause, Parts Unknown
J. C. Jordan, 40 East to Knoxville (debut)
Judith Skillman, China Shop
John Stupp, The Foundry
AWARDS
*Pushcart Prize XLIII (2019)
**The O. Henry Prize (2019)
+Best American Short Stories (2018) -Distinguished Story
++Pushcart Prize XLIII (2019) – Special Mention
+++Best American Essays (2018) – Distinguished Essay
This is the Table of Contents for Issue #1, which was publish in 2017.