Winter 2017-18
Winter 2017-18
The Winter 2017-18 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles; the Winter issue is staff-edited.
This staff-edited issue of Ploughshares features new work by Alice Hoffman, Paige Lewis, Carl Dennis, Amy Gerstler, and Charlie Clark. The poems, short stories, and essays in this collection question how we react to change and to our surroundings.
The winners of our 2017 Emerging Writer’s Contest appear here, along with the announcement of our 2017 John C. Zacharis First Book Award winner.
Fiction
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Almost
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The War Ghosts Bureau
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Minnows
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The Witch of Chelsea
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Il Piccolo Tesoro
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The Bad Guest
Nonfiction
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6:00 a.m. Chicken
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Transparent
Poetry
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The Only Son
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The Song in Which It Resides
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Let's Talk About Suicide
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Once in the Rodin Garden
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Giving Stuff Up
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Carried
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A Tale About Hedgehogs
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Sleepless Poem
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Anything Left
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A Letter
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Poem Excluding Children
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Update
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Glimpse
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Plan B
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Heaven
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Watertown Man Charged with Manslaughter in the Drowning Death of His Best Friend
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The Woman Who Had the Job
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The Budget of the Soul
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The Dogs in the Neighborhood
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Pavlov was the Son of a Priest
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Theodicy
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Hypotheticals
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[INHABITIVENESS: The desire to remain in one place]
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Mementomori.com
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Note
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Epistle from the Hospital for Cheaters
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Anything Can Happen with Wolves
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Pleasure Pit
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Fine Despite
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For My Brother Who Couldn't Stay
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Meditation at Ice-Out
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You Said, "Write a Poem for Me, Baby"
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Dear Amy
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Garonne in May