"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

Werewolves, ghouls, and monsters—oh my! Our Summer 2025 issue features all these creepy characters and more. Get lost in your next creature story today: https://pshr.us/summer25

"But I didn't like the story you told earlier. You can't measure time by heartbeats." Read Marcela Fuentes's story, "The Observable World," in the Summer 2021 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/45R1rZK

"The Devil works that way, our mothers said. Gives you everything with the right hand, snatches your soul with the left." Read Olajide Omojarabi's story, "Messenger Meg," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

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"Enrique emailed me from Montauk: How are we supposed to survive if we don’t believe?" Read Carolyn Ferrell's story, "The Horror," from the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/4ozn4F9

In need of a good ghost story to read around the campfire? Pick up a copy of our Summer 2025 issue and find a story sure to scare your friends. https://pshr.us/summer25

I’m grateful to Terence Winch for choosing “Nocturnal” to appear in Best American Poetry 2025, and to @pshares.bsky.social and Laila Lalami and John Skoyles for first giving a home to the poem. This third photo is an image from the poem. #bestamericanpoetry2025 #bestamericanpoetry #scribner #rats

"No matter how little she asks for, men have always let her know it's too much." Read Deesha Philyaws's story, "She No Longer Fears Him," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

"Prison, he said, has freed him from his self-destructive ways. This was the narrative he’s arrived at. Who’s to say he’s wrong?" Read Alex Chertok's piece, "Prison in the Age of Euphemisms," from the Summer 2019 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/45aSmJD

I'm only a little over halfway through, but wanted to say this issue of @pshares.bsky.social edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social is really great so far. So is this cover art by Laura Catherwood.

Searching for a ghostly read? Look no further than our Summer 2025 issue to find your next spectral story: https://pshr.us/summer25

"But aren’t most of our ideas silly at sixteen years old? Silly and dumb and innocent and wonderful." Read S. A. Cosby's piece, "The Lion Tamer's Son," in our Summer 2025 issue, free this week! http://bit.ly/4l6qbld

"When you signed your receipt at the truth café you signed the waiver, too. No hard feelings. Just the beautiful truth." Read Helen Phillips's story, "Truth Café," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

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Our Summer 2025 issue is great to read while camping. Take an afternoon to enjoy the stories of Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S. A. Cosby, Carolyn Ferrell, Joanna Pearson, and more. https://pshr.us/summer25

I am so delighted that this story of mine appears in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares alongside work by so many brilliant writers (the issue is guest-edited by the incredible Victor LaValle!!) 💫💙I hope y’all might check it out! 💫💙

"My mother named me Liberty for a dead man's dream, the dream of my father, the only other dead man I knew, before Mama resurrected Mr. Ben." Read Kaitlyn Greenidge's piece, "Doers of the Word," from the Summer 2020 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/4m3tXxb

"And wasn't that what life was, I thought: a series of moments of tension and relief?" Read Joanna Pearson's story, "The Joke," the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

"No matter how little she asks for, men have always let her know it's too much." Read Deesha Philyaw's piece, "She No Longer Fears Him," from the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! https://bit.ly/40yHc03

"When everything was falling apart, I wanted to be close to something that couldn't fall any further." Read Siavash Saadlou's story, "A Deep Breath," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

"When you signed your receipt at the truth café you signed the waiver, too. No hard feelings. Just the beautiful truth." Read Helen Phillips's piece, "Truth Café," in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares, free this week! http://bit.ly/3Ikvv6Q

"You now, stranger, sitting in my chair in the shell of my once-ago life, breached now and laid vulnerable to your uses: You." Read Rho Weber Mack's story, "Everything Shifts. Allow." in the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. https://pshr.us/summer25

Reading @nadiabulkin.bsky.social in @pshares.bsky.social edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social : "She has never had therapy. Doctors take five minutes, and exorcisms take five days, and she figures this is a good compromise."

Celebrate Summerween with Ploughshares! Join us at 6pm on July 16th at Trident Booksellers in Boston, MA, for the launch of our sinister Summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Victor LaValle and filled with werewolves, monsters, and more. Register here: https://pshr.us/sinistersummerlaunch

Deesha Philyaw, featured in our Summer 2025 issue (out now!), is the fiction judge for cream city review's Summer Contest! Submit to have your work by Deesha, and poetry judge Michael Chang, by August 1st: https://creamcityreview.submittable.com/submit

"One day I will shake the blue sky from my hair and slip back to consciousness—" In memory of Fanny Howe, read her poem, "Conclusively," from the Fall 1991 issue of Ploughshares. http://bit.ly/4lrusAO

We are pleased to present Ramona Ausubel with the annual Ashley Leigh Bourne Prize for Fiction for her story, “Perfect Numbers,” published in the Summer 2024 issue. Read the full announcement and a profile in our Summer 2025 issue: https://pshr.us/summer25

I have a short story out today in @pshares.bsky.social about rabbits and the end of the world(?). It was a short story that thought it was going to be a novel and I did all kinds of research at the state fair with rabbit judges. I learned a lot and didn’t need most of it, but look at these bunnies.

This issue of @pshares.bsky.social guest edited by @victorlavalle.bsky.social is absolutely stunning and I’m so proud to be in it with such amazing company.

Our sinister Summer 2025 issue is out now! Guest-edited by Victor LaValle, this issue features prose by Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S. A. Cosby, Joanna Pearson, Carolyn Ferrell, and more. Grab your copy today: https://pshr.us/summer25

It was my great honor to guest edit the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares. It’s got so much great writing, I can’t wait for you all to see. To celebrate, we’re having a reading in Boston on July 16. You will love hearing Nadia, Carolyn, and Barbara read. I promise you. Register now!

Spend this sunny day in the park with our Spring 2025 issue as your companion. 🍃 https://pshr.us/spring25

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