Issues

Ploughshares publishes issues four times a year. Two of these issues are guest-edited by different, prominent authors. The other two issues are edited by our staff editors, one a mix of poetry and prose and the other long-form prose.

  • Summer 2025
    Issue #164
    Fiction

    Summer 2025

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    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2025 issue, guest edited by Victor LaValle, features prose by Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S.A. Cosby, Joanna Pearson, Carolyn Ferrell, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Ramona Ausubel. Cover art by Laura Catherwood.

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  • Spring 2025
    Issue #163
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Spring 2025

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    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2025 issue, guest edited by Peggy Shumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Jen Silverman. Cover art by Saskia Fleishman.

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  • Winter 2024-25
    Issue #162
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Winter 2024-25

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    Guest Editor

    The Winter 2024-25 issue, guest edited by John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Susan Bartolme, Andy Chen, and Billy Lezra, and an interview with the John C….

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  • Fall 2024
    Issue #161
    Longform

    Fall 2024

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    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2024 issue features longform prose by Andre Dubus III, Gretchen Ernster Henderson, Benjamin Hoffmann, Aiysha Jahan, Joy Notoma, Shuchi Saraswat, Jen Silverman, Richard Stock, and Daniel Taylor. Cover art by Sophie Treppendahl. 

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    Issue #160
    Fiction, Nonfiction

    Summer 2024

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    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2024 issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Andre Dubus III. Cover art by Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux.

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  • Spring 2024
    Issue #159
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Spring 2024

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    The Spring 2024 issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O’Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner, Molly Aitken. Cover art by Sierra Montoya Barela. 

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  • Winter 2023-24
    Issue #158
    Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

    Winter 2023-24

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    The Winter 2023-24 issue, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ian Stansel, Ariana Benson, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Marie Howe, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Logan Klutse, J Lazar, Mengyin Lin, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner, Claire Luchette. Cover…

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  • Fall 2023
    Issue #157
    Longform

    Fall 2023

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    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2023 issue features longform prose by Anthony David, Parul Kapur, John Keeble, Diane Hinton Perry, Austin Woerner, Nafis Shafizadeh, Wiam El-Tamami, Jamie Lyn Smith, and Jim Shepard. Cover art by Arghavan Khosravi.

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  • Summer 2023
    Issue #156
    Fiction, Nonfiction

    Summer 2023

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    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2023 issue, guest edited by Tom Perrotta, features prose by Marianne Leone, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Andre Dubus III, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, E.K. Ota. Cover art by Byron Kim.

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  • Spring 2023 Vol. 4.91
    Issue #155
    Nonfiction

    Spring 2023

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    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2023 issue, guest edited by Alice Hoffman, features poetry and prose by Danusha Lameris, Jennifer Haigh, Victor LaValle, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner Kashona Notah. Cover art by Helen Zughaib.

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  • Winter 2022-23 Vol. 4.84
    Issue #154
    Fiction

    Winter 2022-23

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    The Winter 2022-23 issue features poetry and prose by Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez, and more, along with work by the Emerging Writer’s Contest winners Catherine Kim, Giovannai Rosa, and Megan Valley, and an interview with the John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner Lara Egger. Cover art by Tiffanie Delune.

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  • Fall 2022 Vol. 48.3
    Issue #153
    Longform

    Fall 2022

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    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2022 issue features longform prose by E. K. Ota, Ben Stroud, and more. Cover art by David Thuku.

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  • Summer 2022 Vol. 48.2
    Issue #152

    Summer 2022

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    Guest Editor

    The Summer 2022 issue, guest edited by Jamel Brinkley, features prose by Rav Grewal-Kök, Arinze Ifeakandu, and more, as well as an interview with the Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction winner, Christie Hodgen. Cover art by Anna Valdez.

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  • Spring 2022 Vol. 48.1
    Issue #151

    Spring 2022

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    Guest Editor

    The Spring 2022 issue, guest edited by Ilya Kaminsky, features poetry and prose by Sheila Black, Andres Cerpa, and more, as well as an interview with the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction winner Fei Sun. Cover art by Amy Kim.

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  • Winter 2021-22 Vol. 4.74
    Issue #150

    Winter 2021-22

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    The Winter 2021-22 issue features poetry and prose by Weike Wang, Fei Sun, and more.

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  • Fall 2021 Vol. 4.73
    Issue #149

    Fall 2021

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    Guest Editor

    The Fall 2021 issue features longform prose by Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsheen Farhadi, and more. Cover art by Soo Hong.

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