Issue 37; January (2021)

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How is 2021 treating you so far? The first issue of the new year is out now. We will update this editorial note in a few hours, it is time for firework soundtracks on our cellphones.

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ISSUE 37, Jan 2021 (Year 8)


Fiction | ‘Flat – Out Earth Moving’ by Mark Anthony Jarman | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Mark Anthony Jarman currently teaches at the University of New Brunswick. His novel, Salvage King Ya!, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books. He has been short-listed for the O. Henry Prize and Best American Essays, won a Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award (twice), and the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize. A graduate…

Poetry | ‘Casual Leave’ by Kashaf Ali | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Kashaf Ali is a Fulbright Scholar, and a graduate of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She currently lives in Karachi, Pakistan, where she divides her time between managing education systems, teaching sociological thinking, and writing not-so-fictional fiction.

Fiction | ‘Fireflies’ by Kavitha Yaga Buggana | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Kavitha Yaga Buggana is an American writer living in Hyderabad, India with her husband. They have two children and a very excitable golden retriever. Her essays and short fiction have been published in The Hindu, River Teeth Journal, Tehelka, Out of Print Magazine, JaggeryLit, and Muse India Magazine. Her travel memoir, Walking in Clouds was released in December 2018 by HarperCollins,…

Poetry | untitled by Simon Perchik | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Simon Perchik, 96; is an attorney whose poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Partisan Review, Forge, Poetry, Osiris, and elsewhere. His most recent collection is The Reflection in a Glass Eye published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2020. His poetry collection, Hands Collected was longlisted for the 2000 National Book Award for…

Poetry | ‘For Frida Kahlo’ by Atreyee Majumder | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Atreyee Majumder is a poet, writer and anthropologist currently teaching at the O P Jindal Global University. She is researching the contemporary life of Krishna bhakti in Vrindavan and recently finished a PhD dissertation at the Department of Anthropology, Yale University. Her first book on the time and space related to late stage capitalism – Time,…


Fiction | ‘The Straight’ by Sohrab Homi Fracis | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Sohrab’s first book, Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America, was the first by an Asian American to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His novel, Go Home, was shortlisted by Stanford University Libraries for the William Saroyan International Prize. An excerpt, ‘Distant Vision,’ in Slice was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He taught…

Fiction | ‘Palace on Fire’ by Susan Bloch | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Susan Bloch’s essays have won a prize in the Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards and received a notable mention in Best American Essays 2017. Her short stories and essays have been published in a variety of magazines and literary journals, including The Forward, Entropy, The Citron Review, STORGY, Pif Magazine, Tikkun, and HuffPost. A lifelong traveler, she lived…

Fiction | ‘The Reluctant Teller of Tales’ by Mukesh Manjunath | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Mukesh Manjunath is a writer currently based out of Mumbai. He has previously published in The Wire, EPW, and The World of Apu. He is working on his debut non-fiction book titled The Age of Heroes to be published by Harper Collins India.  He received his Integrated Masters in Development Studies from the Indian Institute of Technology – Madras, Chennai. 

Poetry | ‘Aubade’ & ‘Flying over Bonaire’ by Ricardo Pau-Llosa | Issue 37 (Jan, 2021)

Pulitzer nominated Ricardo’s poems have appeared (and/or will soon) in Ambit, American Journal of Poetry, American Poetry Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blackbird, Boston Review, Burnside, The Common, december, Ekphrasis, The Fiddlehead, Hudson Review, Ilanot Review, Island, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Plume, PN Review, Poetry, Prism, Quadrant, Southern Review, Stand, Vayavya, Virginia Quarterly Review, Volt,…



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