Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn. I feel so fortunate that I’ve gotten to spend time in the beauty of this work. I’ve needed it.
Issue 40 features poetry and short prose by Mary Biddinger, Emma Bolden, Callie B. Dean, Nathan Fako, Adam Greenfield, Jeff Harvey, Jennifer Randall Hotz, Courtney Justus, Beth Kanter, Sigrun Susan Lane, Natalia Martinez, Maud Burnett McInerney, Luci Shaw, Beate Sigriddaughter, Brian Simoneau, Hillary Smith-Maddern, Annie Stenzel, Megan Stolz, Claire Taylor, Eric K. Taylor, Marjorie Tesser, Rita Tiwari, and Brett Warren.
This issue’s pedagogy paper by Danielle Shi offers a model for teaching creative writing through online journaling. We have reviews of new books by Nancy Miller Gomez, Michelle Lerner, Sarah Kain Gutowski, Stephanie Parent, and Cammy Thomas thanks to the thoughtful work of Simone Muench, Jennifer Poteet, Kimberly Ann Priest, Daniel Schulz, and Elizabeth Sylvia. We also have a mutual interview with Beth Castrodale and Ellen Birkett Morris about their recent novels.
If you like what you see here, please use one or more of the Tip the Author links below author bios throughout the issue. Thanks for reading!
Katie Manning
Editor-in-Chief