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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.