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PLOUGHSHARES
Ploughshares is published three times a year at Emerson College. Each issue offers almost two hundred pages of great new stories and poems, guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Our website serves as companion to our print journal. We have over 3,500 poems, stories, and articles from our current print issue and our back issue archives that you may read for free. We also have a multitude of Web-only information about our authors. Emerson College, our institutional sponsor, is a premier communications and performing arts college in Boston and hosts one of the best M.F.A. programs in creative writing in the country.
Submission period closed: March 31 was the last day of our current submission period. We will no longer accept submissions until our next reading period begins on August 1 (postmark date). Please read the full guidelines for details.
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May 13, 2008
Bright Lights Big Verse: Poems of Times Square
New York, NY
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May 17, 2008
Gail Mazur and John Skoyles — Reading
Brockton, MA
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May 18, 2008
Afaa Michael Weaver and Bob Clawson — Reading
Concord, MA
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2007 Zacharis Award
The $1,500 John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between fiction and poetry. Congratulations to this year's winner, Ander Monson, for his collection of stories, Other Electricities (Sarabande, 2005).
Take a look at all of our Zacharis Award winners from the last fifteen years.
Also see the winners of our Cohen Award, given each year to the best short story and poem published in Ploughshares.
Thirty-Four Years of Award Winners
Stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares have appeared at least 135 times in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. See the list.
Congratulations to our newest prize anthology winners:
BEST STORIES Allegra Goodman’s “Closely Held,” from the Spring 2007 issue edited by Edward Hirsch, will be included in The Best American Short Stories 2008. The anthology is due out this October from Houghton Mifflin, with Salman Rushdie as the guest editor and Heidi Pitlor as the series editor.
PUSHCARTS Charles Baxter’s story “Ghosts,” from the Spring 2007, and Chris Forhan’s poem “Love, or Something, also from the Spring 2007 issue, have been selected for The Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, which will be published by Bill Henderson’s Pushcart Press this November.
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CURRENT ISSUE
Guest-edited by Philip Levine, the Winter 2007-08 issue features six prose pieces and sixty-three poems from established and new voices. | |
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PREVIOUS ISSUE
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| Guest-edited by Andrea Barrett, the Fall 2007 fiction issue features twelve stories. |
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Ploughshares receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts
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Ploughshares is published at Emerson College in Boston.
Ploughshares received a 2007 Commonwealth Award as an outstanding cultural organization. The Commonwealth Awards are Massachusetts's highest honors in the arts, humanities, and sciences, and are given out
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