The Fall 2021 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 now provides 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 Fall 2021 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsheen Farhadi, Christie Hodgen, Yxta Maya Murray, Mona Susan Power, Will Schluter, Nick Sweeney, Joan Wickersham, and Julian Zabalbeascoa. The stories and essays in the Fall 2021 Issue confront violence in our own time and in generations past, grappling with the very “ugliness” of human nature.