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Vol. 35, No. 1 & 2
Summer/Fall 2018
NOVELLA: Life/Story by Emily Mitchell
STORIES: 11 Short Stories
ESSAY: 3 Personal Essays
POETRY: A Collection of Poems
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Congratulations to Cary Holladay! Her latest book, Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella, is just released by OUP/Swallow Press. In it "women and girls often overlooked by history are given compelling voices in this collection." (Kirkus Reviews). An earlier story "Merry-Go-Sorry," based on the case of the West Memphis 3, was published in Alaska Quarterly Review and won an O. Henry Prize.
Congratulations to novelist and short story writer Aurelie Sheehan. Her latest book, Once into the Night, a collection of 57 very short pieces, won Fiction Collective Two’s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize this year and is out on February 19 (University of Alabama Press). Aurelie had two stories in AQR (Vol. 27 3-4 and Vol. 20 3-4).
Mary Oliver was a wonderful poet. Her passing is a great loss.Poet Mary Oliver reads her poem "Wild Geese": You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repen...
