Diving Lessons

Tammy Delatorre’s essay “Diving Lessons,” winner of the 2015 Slippery Elm Prize, has made the Notable list of Best American Essays 2016! Read Tammy’s winning piece here. For this reader, “Diving Lessons” is the kind of prose that uses narrative drive to guide the reader through the messy, cyclical, and…

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Online Edition: Slippage

Our latest addition to our online edition comes from Aaron Miller. Aaron attended the workshops at UC-Irvine, where he was an Arlene Cheng Fellow and a winner of the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters. His work has previously appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Joyland, and The Common. He lives…

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Thank you for your submissions!

Thank you to everyone who submitted for our upcoming print edition!  We are hard at work reading all of your submissions and throughly enjoying it. Submissions for our online edition will remain open.

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