Fall 2016: Open Letters

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"Typing up a Storm" © Abbe Mogell; used by permission]

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How could you be so creative, so powerful, so prolific? Do you know what you did to me? To my writing? To my stories? Your sexuality was smothering, dammit, and it changed…everything. When I finally started writing for money, I was writing for you.

—"Dear Prince"

New pieces will appear on the Table of Contents as they publish throughout the issue cycle.

 

Personal Stories

Unleashed by Jane McCafferty
Storms of the Circus World by Lorri McDole

Fiction

Stone and Turtle by Bernard Grant

Special Feature

Dear Literary Editor—and Writer by Steven Lewis and Rob Spillman

First Person

Dear Gretchen Carlson, Formerly of Fox News by Martha Nichols

Theme for this Issue

Dear Prince by Shawn Kerivan
Dear Kate Chopin by Emily Toth
Dear Harryette Mullen by Carol Dorf
Dear Edward Snowden by J.p. Lawrence
Dear Henry Miller by John Vogel
Dear Taylor Swift (and Other White Feminists) by Lorraine Berry
Dear Madeleine Albright by Susan Terris
Dear Rupert Murdoch (and Mark Zuckerberg) by Jeremiah Horrigan
Dear Tim Cook, CEO of Apple by David Biddle

Hybrid Work

The Grimm Forest Open-Air Museum by Sarah Ann Winn
O Reason Not by Robert Perchan
Some Failed Nocturnes for Sylvia Plath by Marie Chambers

Poetry

Elizabeth Iannaci: Poem by Elizabeth Iannaci
Megan Merchant: Two Epistles by Megan Merchant

 

 

© Abbe Mogell

Artwork in this Issue

Featured Artist: Abbe Mogell

  • Fall 2016 cover
  • "Stone and Turtle"
  • "Dear Literary Editor—and Writer"
  • "Storms of the Circus World"

© Kim Triedman

Featured Artist: Kim Triedman

  • "Megan Merchant: Two Epistles"
  • "Some Failed Nocturnes for Sylvia Plath"
  • "Unleashed"