The Winter 2019-20 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

The Winter 2019-20 issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Nick Arvin, Sallie Tisdale, Tony Hoagland, Gretchen Henderson, and Gail Mazur as well as Megan Pinto, Richie Hofmann, Daneen Wardrop, Jennifer Knox, Eric Burger, Keith Leonard, Jim Whiteside, Jim Daniels, Maggie Millner, Conor Bracken, Gabriel Welsch, Catie Rosemurgy, Malachi Black, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Traci Brimhall, Esther Lin, Grady Chambers, Barbara Tran, Courtney Faye Taylor, Stephen Browning, Claire Sibley, Lynne Thompson, Janan Alexandra, Kerrin McCadden, Erin Adair-Hodges, Emily Hoffman, Amelie Meltzer, Mark Winegardner, Daryl Farmer, Owen Good, Aurelie Sheehan, Diana Spechler, Kai Maristed, Katherine Sharpe, and Beulah Amsterdam.