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Featured Writer: Ingrid Horrocks

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“Days Bay,” an essay from the forthcoming collection Where We Swim

 

A Book You May Have Missed: Sarah Minor's BRIGHT ARCHIVE

 

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Coming Soon! Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Full guidelines will be available 4/28. Submissions open May 1.

Best Small Fictions

 text: Ninth Letter announces Best Small Fiction nominations

Now Available! Volume 17, no. 2 - Fall/Winter 2020-21

Featuring new work from: Carl Phillips, Jonathan Wlodarski, Alyssa Quinn, Nichole LeFebvre, Michael Chang, and more!. Plus: the winners of the 2020 Ninth Letter Literary Awards and the 2019 Illinois Emerging Writer Awards!

 

 

A Book You May Have Missed: Michele Morano's LIKE LOVE

Featuring an excerpt from the book and an interview with the author

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Current Web Edition: Winter 2021

Featuring Sean Cho A., Despy Boutris, Jean Coco, Ro Daniels, Amanda Gaines, Wynne Hungerford, Natasha King, Rooja Mohassessy, Jennifer Popa, E. B. Schnepp, Alison Stine, Vincent Yu

Special Feature: my heart. your soul.

A Ninth Letter Pandemic Anthology

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