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PLOUGHSHARES
Published three times a year in quality paperback, Ploughshares offers almost two hundred pages
per issue of great new
stories and poems, guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal
visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
Our website serves as companion to our print journal. We have over 3,500 poems, stories, and articles from our
current
print issue and our back issue archives that you may read for free. We also have a multitude of Web-only information about many of our 2,000-plus authors: bios, news, events, even blurbs about their favorite books.
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Nov 05, 2005,
Dara Wier and Christian Hawkey—Reading
Reading
Cambridge, MA
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Nov 06, 2005,
Charles Simic — Reading
Reading
Plymouth, NH
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Nov 06, 2005,
Mary Jo Salter and Rebecca Wolff—Reading
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Amherst, MA
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2005 Zacharis Award
The $1,500 John C. Zacharis First Book Award honors the best debut book by a Ploughshares writer, alternating annually between fiction and poetry. Congratulations to this year's winner, Richard McCann, for his collection of stories, Mother of Sorrows (Pantheon, 2005).
Take a look at all of our Zacharis Award winners from the last fifteen years.
2005 Cohen Awards
Each year, we honor the best poem and short story published in Ploughshares with the Cohen Awards. The 2005 Cohen Awards for work published in Ploughshares in 2004, Volume 30, go to Daisy Fried and Xu Xi.
Take a look at all of our Cohen Award winners from the last nineteen years.
Thirty-Four
Years of Award Winners
Stories, poems, and essays from Ploughshares
have appeared at least 135 times in The Best American Poetry, The Best American Short
Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the
Small Presses. See
the list.
Congratulations to our newest prize anthology winners:
BEST POETRY: Beth Ann Fennelly’s poem “I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese.,” from the Spring 2004 issue edited by Campbell McGrath, will appear in The Best American Poetry 2005 this September from Scribner, with Paul Muldoon as the guest editor and David Lehman as the series editor.
PUSHCART: Daisy Fried’s poem “Shooting Kinesha” and Cynthia Weiner’s story “Boyfriends,” from the Spring 2004 issue, have been selected for The Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses, which will be published by Bill Henderson’s Pushcart Press this fall.
O. HENRY: Xu Xi’s “Famine” has been chosen for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 by editor Laura Furman. The anthology will be published next May by Anchor Books.
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CURRENT ISSUE
Guest-edited by
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| Guest-edited by Martín Espada, our Spring 2005 issue features six stories, two essays, and sixty-three poems |
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