Featured Writer: Evan James
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Ninth Letter will be accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for a special online edition to be published at ninthletter.com in Winter 2018. Submissions will be open from January 22 to March 31.
The theme for this issue is climate. Subjected to climate change both in our localities and at a distance, how does our literature recognize and respond? Snow in Saudi Arabia. Bleached coral reefs. Bomb cyclones and a weakened polar vortex. Drought and unprecedented wildfire. Longer hurricane seasons. We hear this all around us, but what does it mean to you?
Now Available! Volume 14, no. 2 - Fall/Winter 2017-18
Featuring new work from:
D. J. Thielke, Rachel M. Hanson,
Becka Mara McKay, Kimberly King Parsons,
Jeanne Larson, Oliver Baez Bendorf,
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Aaron Baker,
and more. Plus: The winners of our 2017 Literary Awards!
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Featured Writer: Mimi Schwartz
Submit to our 2018 Literary Awards!
This year's Literary Awards are now open for submissions. Our esteemed guest judges are Michele Morano, fiction; Elissa Washuta, creative nonfiction, and sam sax, poetry.
Winners in each category will receive $1000 and publication in Ninth Letter. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription.
Go here for complete guidelines and to submit your work!
Feature: Cuban Voices
Dream Game, Memory's Palazzo
The Sun Yat-sen International Writers Residency Special Edition
edited and with an introduction by Katherine Scott Nelson
featuring poetry, essays, and stories by Ravi Shankar, Fan Dai, Larissa Boehning, Rúnar Vignisson, and more
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