Come visit us at #AWPBaltimore! We'll be hosting book signings by three recent contributors at Table #T427.
Plus, don't miss our offsite event this Thursday, in collaboration with The Adroit Journal and The Kenyon Review! RSVP: https://bit.ly/3N2K81e
"So-and-so brushed / my shoulder as gunshots / cracked."
Read Mostafa Ibrahim's poem (translated by Abdelrahman ElGendy), "So-and-So," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
We're so pleased to have published new work by three of our past guest editors in our Winter 2025-26 issue! Read their pieces and check out their guest-edited issues: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
Will you be at #AWPBaltimore? Visit Ploughshares at Table #T427 for book signings with contributors Rasaq Malik Gbolahan and Hadara Bar-Nadav and upcoming guest editor Justin Torres! Copies of their books will be available for purchase.
"I tell my sisters not to worry. / I will garden the sadness / away."
Read Abbie Kiefer's poem, "Assistance," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares: https://pshares.org/issue-article/assistance/
Ready to be discovered? Submit your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to the Emerging Writers’ Contest between February 1 and March 31 for the chance to win a conversation with the literary agency Aevitas Creative Management! Learn more and submit: https://pshares.org/submit/emerging-writers-contest/
"No falling: just goldenrod, blown willowy breath, and the cold bruised sky."
Read Jennifer Martelli's poem, "Fake Wool," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares, available here: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
In our first PS post, a love letter to our archive, Kathryn Nuernberger, Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, and Heidi Czerwiec discuss the work of Maxine Kumin, Annie Dillard, and Toi Derricotte in previous issues of Ploughshares.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4rQBUIv
XO, Ploughshares
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Take some time to reflect on the poetry and prose in our Winter 2025-26 issue, available now: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
"My flesh is over here, in this tall, red building, behind pale, green glass, looking out at the million paths that seem to lead everywhere..."
Read Reginald McKnight's piece, "You Wouldn't Think So, But Here We Are," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares: https://bit.ly/4tpLT9d
Coming soon: PS! PS is Ploughshares’ tribute to our history; an online addendum to our print issues. Here you’ll find essays, interviews, recordings, & other ephemera in direct conversation with our current issue and 50+ year archive. Be on the lookout for our first PS publication later this month.
Our Winter 2025-26 issue features plenty of poetry and prose to fill up those long winter nights. Pick up your copy: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
Save the date for our AWP Offsite event in partnership with the Adroit Journal and Kenyon Review!
"These, and other reminders, some wanted, even in their bitter sweetness, more still desperately not, shaping themselves for half a heartbeat..."
Read Billy O'Callaghan's piece, "What the Snow Brings," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares! bit.ly/4ry7wT7
Why venture out into the cold when you can stay in and read our Winter 2025-26 issue? Grab your copy today: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
Come visit us in Baltimore for AWP at Table #T427! Stay tuned for news about author signings and an exciting offsite event.
"In the age of objects so many things stored energy and light: a saddle burnished by oil and sweat; wooden spoons singed velvety black."
Read Lia Purpura's piece, "In the Age of Objects: A Primer," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares! https://bit.ly/3Zy0Zvt
This week we celebrated the launch of our Winter 2025-26 issue with readings from contributors Alice Hoffman, Maggie Dietz, Shara McCallum, and Bridget Lowe! Thank you to our friends at Trident Booksellers & Café for hosting us, and to our staff and community members for supporting 🎉
Get a head start on your reading goal with our Winter 2025-26 issue, featuring poetry and prose by Alice Hoffman, Victoria Chang, Maggie Dietz, Jennifer Martelli, and more. Don’t wait to get your copy: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
Are you in the Boston area? Join us for a celebration of our Winter 2025-26 issue at Trident Booksellers tomorrow, January 21st, at 6 pm! This reading will feature Winter 2025-26 contributors Alice Hoffman, Maggie Dietz, Shara McCallum, and Bridget Lowe. Register for free: https://bit.ly/3NgLVzD
"You / remind me, the Coke is the context for the having. / It is important."
Read Dujie Tahat's poem, "I Did Not Know, When I First Said I Love You, I Was Thinking About Thinking," in the Winter 2025-26 issue of Ploughshares! https://bit.ly/4jD9leH
You and our Winter 2025-26 issue go together like January and a sweater. Grab your copy and get cozy: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
Ploughshares is pleased to present Olufunke Grace Bankole with the annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her novel, The Edge of Water (Tin House, 2025)! This year’s judge was Jamil Jan Kochai, author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019) & winner of the 2021 John C. Zacharis First Book Award.
Happy New Year! Resolve to read our Winter 2025-26 issue, out today and featuring poetry and prose from Alice Hoffman, Victoria Chang, Jennifer Martelli, and more! Start reading: https://pshares.org/product/winter-2025-26/
There’s still time to apply for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices from @lambdaliterary.org! Take your chance at finding a community of queer writers and workshopping your manuscript. Apply by January 15: https://bit.ly/48cM1iy
#LLWritersRetreat
Our Fall 2025 issue is still here for your new year reading! Grab your copy today and enjoy longform prose by Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, and more: https://pshr.us/fall25
One week left on our hat sale! Through January 15, buy a Ploughshares subscription and receive a discounted Emerging Writer hat & free entry to our Emerging Writers’ Contest. Click https://pshr.us/ewcbundle, or add a subscription & Emerging Writer hat to your cart and enter coupon code EWCBUNDLE25!
"We all work with death, don't we? Mindy, you, me. All in our different ways."
Read Ian Stansel's story, "O Holy Night," in the Winter 2023-24 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/45p0xD3
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