Ninth Letter is published semi-annually in June and December by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Copies are available for $14.95. A one-year subscription may be purchased for $21.95; a two-year subscription may be purchased for $37.95. Subscriptions and single-copy orders may be sent with check or credit card information to Ninth Letter, Dept. of English, University of Illinois, 608 S. Wright St., Urbana, Illinois, 61801. Credit card orders may also be placed via our secure web site.
Ninth Letter accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from September 1 to February 28 (postmark dates). For complete guidelines and to submit online, visit our print submissions guidelines page.
Fiction
Tom Howard, “Scarecrows”
Whitney Collins, “Drawers”
Blair Hurley, “The Retreat Welcomes You”
Dennis James Sweeney, “The Beginning”
Nonfiction
Jennifer D. Munro, “Grooves”
TaraShea Nesbit, “A Limo Ride to Frisch’s Big Boy”
Whitney Lee, “On Dissection
Poetry
Matthew Gavin Frank, “Small, Turbulent Disappointments”
Teresa Dzieglewicz, “Backpacking, Late Fall”
Emily August, “The Split Fig”
George Kovalenko “Wolfstooth” and “Serenade with Great Doom’s Image”
Emily Corwin, “Outburst as Clarice Starling” and “Outburst as Laurie Strode”
Bradley Harrison, “Invisible City”
Melissa Ginsburg, “I choose the names”
Devon Walker-Figueroa, “A Galaxy Named Beloved”
Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren, “Rasp”
Sophia Stid, “After Reading Julian of Norwich”
Leila Chatti, “Prayer”
Mitchell Jacobs, “None of My Friends Have Bodies Anymore”
Dylan Weir, “The Souls that Throng the Flood”
Cortney Lamar Charleston, “Concerning Citizenship”
Special Feature
“More Like This than Any of These: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of the Trans New Wave”
Cooper Lee Bombardier
Colette Arrand
Grace Reynolds
Ryka Aoki
Brook Shelley
Art Feature
Perfectly Acceptable Press
Where We’re At
Sebastián Maldonado-Vélez, “The Inescapable Mystery of a Midwestern Pilgrimage”
Jason Nafziger, “Rock over London, Rock on Chicago”
Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Alex Shakar
Poetry Editor: Janice N. Harrington
Art Director: Brock Landrum
Designers: Jessica Badofsky, Edwin Capuli, Donna Dimitrova, Andrew Harlan, Ryan Hock, Vivian Hong, Jessica Jutzi, Margaret Kots, Sydney, Kozoloski, Estefana Loret De Mola, Edgar Madrigal, Matthew Musial, Megan Myrie, Sophia Presutti, Myah Price, Miriam Salah, Kristy Vuong, Amanda Yu
Assistant Editors: Chekwube Danladi, Liz Howey, Benjamin Miller
Editorial Assistants: Kyle Callert, Katrina Gaffney, Edgar Garbelotto, Aumaine Gruich, Amelia Hawkins, Skyler LaLone, Sebastián Maldonado-Vélez, Taylor Micks, Benjamin Miller, Nicholas Molbert, Jason Nafziger, Kent Quaney, Justin Smith, Jessica Tanck
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
Special thanks to our guest judges for the 2018 Literary Awards: Michele Morano (fiction), sam sax (poetry), and Elissa Washuta (creative nonfiction)
Special thanks also to Editor-at-Large Philip Graham for his work on the special feature “More Like This than any of These: Creative Nonfiction in the Age of the Trans New Wave.”
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College of Fine and Applied Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Office of the Provost
School of Art + Design
Individual Sponsors
Patron
Sarah Knox, M.D.
John Hall, M.D.
Friend
Gladys Justin Carr
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