The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”Ploughshares showcases the work of “writers who make the shapes they want to mak...

“The book is heartily significant, featuring work that is sometimes surprising, sometimes frustrating and sometimes exhilaratingnot unlike the Web itself.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review“There is good work here. Perhaps that’s all that needs to be said.”—Fiction Writers Review

Volume four, issue two of the Heavy Feather Review literary journal. Cover by Sebastiano Ranchetti. Fiction by Caren Beilin, Kathy Fish, Molly Gaudry, Janalyn Guo, Evan Lavender-Smith, Lisa Locascio, Daniel Miller, Leslie Parry, Jen Pelto, and Zach VandeZande. Poetry by Partridge Boswell, Jamison Crabtree, Nicholas Grider, Satoshi Iwai, Jane Lewty, Marco Maisto, Ryan Mills, Rodney Nelson, Meghan Privitello, Philip Schaefer, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib. Creative nonfiction by Sa...