Our new issue is here!



Welcome to the eleventh issue of our annual literary journal, you are here. For this year's journal, we reconsidered the entire publication, from cover to website, engaging in a thorough freshening up. Also, we are now making the entire journal available online and you can download it here (as a pdf), or using the menu to your left, or you can play around on this very site and read as you go.

Either way, we've had a fabulous time working with our authors and artists and team to put this latest issue together. And we hope you enjoy your experience too. Onward!

 

FEATURED WRITING


The Geography of Romance

 by  MAJED AKHTER

Romance as an idea is dynamic: how we fall in love today is different from how it used to happen two hundred--or even fifty--years ago. Of course it’s a difficult matter to define love, or decide whether it is a universal experience. But it is hard to argue that the process of arriving at love has stayed the same throughout time. My father met my mother on their wedding day. They do not expect me to subscribe to the same notion of romance.  read on



The Lagerstätten

 by  B.R. BONNER

One day in January—January 12th to be exact—we found ourselves standing on a pass between two snow-capped peaks at 4,700 meters altitude, gasping for breath and struggling against the pounding headaches produced by the lack of oxygen.  read on

FEATURED ART


Jump Rope Bubbles

 by  SARAH ZIDONIK





Roberta Blackgoat

 by  BEN KIRKBY