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"Your daddy's choices have got nothing to do with yours. You've your own course to chart. And don't you forget it." Read Devon Walker-Figueroa's story, "Hold Harmless," from the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/47uMxbg

There’s nothing better than staying in with a good book as the leaves fall outside. Curl up with our Fall 2025 issue today. https://pshr.us/fall25

There’s only two weeks left until our Regular Reading Period closes! Submit your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and longform works before it’s too late. https://pshares.org/submit/

"I will go to the archives. What will I look for? Another place, simply, where the past speaks?" Read Corinna Cook's piece, "Chooutla," from the Spring 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3Wyp6ZD

"Maybe the Hindus got it right with their burning pyres. Maybe it's the smoke that reaches God, just enough to sting His all-seeing eyes." Read Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha's story, "Seven Urns," in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/fall25

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"Your daddy's choices have got nothing to do with yours. You've your own course to chart. And don't you forget it." Read Devon Walker-Figueroa's story, "Hold Harmless," in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/fall25

Thanks to everyone for celebrating the launch of our Fall 2025 issue with us and enjoying the amazing stories read by Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa. Thank you to our friends at Trident Books, and our staff and community members for supporting 🎉

"If he can no longer conceive of a way out, and I'm the one remaining tether he has to his life, can I really let him go?" Read Eric McMillan's story, "Gripped," in the Fall 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/4n74EK0

It’s truly a dream to have my story “Angelo” selected by Celeste Ng for this year’s edition of Best American Short Stories! Special thanks to Nicole Lamy and @marinerbooks.bsky.social and to Laila Lalami and Ladette Randolph for selecting it for @pshares.bsky.social (where it first appeared)!

There’s nothing better than staying in with a good book as the leaves fall outside. Curl up with our Fall 2025 issue today. https://pshr.us/fall25

"Please, as long as I'm pouring my heart out, withhold your good opinions." Read Jody Gladding's story, "Squash (Cucurbite)," in the Winter 1997-8 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/43piBfl

Thrilled and thankful! 🎉🏵️🐽🚴

In celebration of our Fall 2025 issue, we're having a release reading! Join us at Trident Booksellers in Boston on Wednesday, October 22nd, at 6pm, for a reading from Fall 2025 contributors Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa. Register here: https://pshr.us/fall25launch

We're excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Emerging Writer's Contest! 🎉

"But over Patrick's should and beyond the beam of the headlights was the blackest night Yvonne had ever known, and the and lonely wilderness." Read Mary Winsor's story "Dasvidaniya" in the Fall 2025 isue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/fall25

Thrilled to be in the company of these poets and writers and translators whose work I so admire. Might've been late to a couple classes or missed a call or two while I read cover to cover. Thank you, @pshares.bsky.social

In celebration of our Fall 2025 issue, we're having a release reading! Join us at Trident Booksellers in Boston on Wednesday, October 22nd, at 6pm, for a reading from Fall 2025 contributors Juliana Lamy, Heather Thompson-Brenner, and Devon Walker-Figueroa. Register here: https://pshr.us/fall25launch

We're now accepting longform poetry in addition to prose for our fall issues! We define longform poetry as a single long poem, variations on the epic poem, or a sequential poem such as a crown of sonnets or numbered series. Find out more and submit by November 15: https://pshares.org/submit/journal/

Read the new issue of @pshares.bsky.social! There’s a real banger of a story by Geetanjali Shree, translated by me 💖💖💖

Our Fall 2025 issue is out now! Read longform prose by Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Fortunato Salazar, Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell), Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Mary Winsor. Start reading: https://pshr.us/fall25

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"Doctors take five minutes, and exorcisms take five days, and she figures this is a good compromise." Read Nadia Bulkin's story, "Florenzia," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

"Was she still alive? Was she still struggling, or had she given up? What even was giving up?" Read Jac Jemc's story, "The Drift," from the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3VyPfa7

Please join us in welcoming our new Fiction Editor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding! Submit your fiction for him to read by November 15th. Read more about Paul below, or visit our website: https://pshr.us/newfictioneditor

"But aren't most of our ideas silly at sixteen years old? Silly and dumb and innocent and wonderful." Read S. A. Cosby's story, "The Lion Tamer's Son," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

Ploughshares publishes the leading and rising voices of the literary world. Subscribe today and never miss an issue! https://pshr.us/subscription

"Enrique emailed me from Montauk: How are we supposed to survive if we don't believe?" Read Carolyn Ferrell's story, "The Horror," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

Studying never looked so good. Grab a Ploughshares hat between today and September 30th, and get a surprise issue from our archive, then head to the nearest cafe and read in style 💅🏼 https://pshr.us/newmerch

"But you couldn't protect the water system that ran through it, Jeff said. You couldn't keep everything out, not ever." Read Tristan Hughes's story, "The Wilderness," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

We’re looking for our next Assistant Director of Business & Development! Please note that this is a hybrid position requiring two in-person days per week in our Boston office. Find out more about the role and apply to join the Ploughshares team today: https://pshr.us/businessdirector

Celebrate Halloween early with our sinister Summer 2025 issue, featuring prose by Helen Phillips, S. A. Cosby, Carolyn Ferrell, and more. Treat yourself to a copy: https://pshr.us/summer25

"Was she still alive? Was she struggling, or had she given up? What even was giving up?" Read Jac Jemc's story, "The Drift," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

This looks good! I heard Olajibe Omojarabi’s story Messenger Meg on @shortstorytoday.bsky.social and I’d love to read the rest!

"Loneliness is an infection, an ache, a disease others fear they might catch. The longing for a home that no longer exists." Read Daniel Peña's piece, "Snapshots of a Life in Flight: An Essay in Cardinal Directions," from the Fall 2022 issue, free this week! https://bit.ly/3VT4evG

Our special criticism tote bag features not one but two drink holders, perfect for your water bottle or a bottle of wine to enjoy while reading one of our issues. Get yours today and receive a surprise issue from the Ploughshares archive! https://pshr.us/newmerch

"'Children have a genius for peril,' says Ian." Read Barbara Lock's story, "Keep You Safe," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

“I only think of this story because when he told me he saw a vision of the end of the world, I didn’t think it was his imagination.” Read Rachel Mans McKenny's story, "Rabbit Rabbit," from the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/3K0CRgN

End your summer with eerie and uncanny prose by S. A. Cosby, Carolyn Ferrell, Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, Joanna Pearson, and more, by grabbing our Summer 2025 issue: https://pshr.us/summer25

"The terriermen might convince Bants that every hunt is different, but the chased all look the same." Read Zara Karschay's story, "Terrierman," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

The wait is over! Ploughshares totes and hats are now live on our website. Order between now and September 30th to receive a free issue from the Ploughshares archive. Grab your exclusive merch today: https://pshr.us/newmerch

“Can any word cohere? If I put you on the page, are you here?” Read J. Estanislao Lopez's poem, "Hypotheticals," from the Winter 2017-18 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/4mCGmZ5

We’ve had a record year for submissions this year and will be closing our Regular Reading Period early! Send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and longform works by November 15, 2025 at 12pm EST for the chance to be featured in a future issue of Ploughshares. https://pshares.org/submit

Ploughshares publishes the leading and rising voices of the literary world. Subscribe today and never miss an issue! https://pshr.us/subscription

A poet asked me, for the issue of @Pshares.bsky.social i’m editing, whether I’m looking for poems on a certain theme. I answered, “I’m looking for poems that weave structure & meaning so they can’t be separated— Structure fully realized & expressed like the shape of a flower.”

"I only think of this story because when he told me he saw a vision of the end of the world, I didn't think it was his imagination." Read Rachel Mans McKenny's story, "Rabbit Rabbit," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

“And wasn’t that what life was, I thought: a series of moments of tension and relief?” Read Joanna Pearson's story, "The Joke," from the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/4fU6gVs

For the first time in our 54-year history, we’re thrilled to name a Nonfiction Editor to the masthead: the essayist, poet, cultural critic, and all-around beautiful human Hanif Abdurraqib. He's excited to read your essays! Read more about Hanif below, or visit his website: https://www.abdurraqib.com

"I'd never even looked through the telescope. And if you could see God, what would you see?" Read Thomas McMullan's story, "Observatory," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25