PLEIADES writer wins Pushcart Prize

May 27, 2018

First-time writer Eli Barrett wins a Pushcart Prize with his story, "The Imagination Resettlement Program," which originally appeared in Pleiades 37.2 and will soon appear in the 2019 Pushcart Prize Anthology. "The Imagination Resettlement Program" is Eli Barrett's first and only published story. Until we are told otherwise, we will go ahead and say that this is the first time in Pushcart Prize history that the award has ...

Winner of the 2018 R.M. Kinder Prize: John Mattson

May 21, 2018

  Announcing the winner of the 2018 R.M. Kinder Prize, John Mattson, for his story "Figure and Ground," which will appear in the Winter 2019 issue of Pleiades: Literature in Context. Congratulations, ...

3-Minute Book Review:

May 10, 2018

Three Minute Book Review: Jessica Raney on Kevin Holton's At the Hands of Madness (Severed Press, 2018) - Is this book a papyrus, typewriter, desk top computer, or iPad? This book is a Star Fleet issue PADD, used by Seven of Nine. Nanites play a part, so resistance is futile. If this book had parents, who would they be? If Pacific Rim and the X-Men had a baby, that baby would be At the Hands of Madness. ...

An Interview with Elizabeth A.I. Powell

April 30, 2018

Author of Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances by William Trowbridge William Trowbridge: It has been nearly 16 years between your previous collection of poems The Republic of Self and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter. Why so long? Elizabeth A.I. Powell: This new collection was pretty much finished in 2005, and was a finalist that year for the National Poetry ...