December 31, 2016
I took over editing the Pleiades blog at the beginning of this year, and I've been proud to be associated with a magazine that foregrounds context in a year when mainstream journalism has largely abandoned any responsibility to the historical and cultural forces that shape the stories it tells. I came into the job with a few ideas about how the blog could contribute to a conversation about literature and context that is ...
December 23, 2016
If you have holiday money to spend, a few of our editors chime in with their favorite books of the year:
Children of the New World, a debut fiction collection by Alexander Weinstein, explores imminent technologies and scenarios in a compassionate and human fashion. In confronting near-future technologies in his stories, Weinstein forces us to contemplate and question the pervasive role of technology in our ...
December 16, 2016
Congratulations to all the NEA fellows in poetry for 2017, including contributors Nick Lantz, Edgar Kunz, Michael Bazzett, Jose Hernandez Diaz, & Nancy Chen ...
December 06, 2016
We are excited to announce the winner of the 2017 Gail B. Crump Award in Experimental Fiction.
Jenny Drai's story, "A Brief History of One Bath," will be published in Pleiades 38.1, in Winter 2018.
Jenny Drai is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Wine Dark (Black Lawrence Press) and [the door] (Trembling Pillow Press). Another collection, The History Worker, is forthcoming in 2017. ...
