January 05, 2016
Hi, Pleiades fans! I'll be editing the website starting today. I first read Pleiades when I was an MFA student at Emerson College. Emerson had a stack of journals to look through, and I remember Pleiades had the best reviews section by far and some great fiction. I was working on a screenplay about a Korean War POW that eventually became a novella (The Last Repatriate) but in the middle, between screenplay and ...
January 02, 2016
Michael Kardos is the author of two novels, Before He Finds Her (2015) and The Three-Day Affair, as well as the short story collection One Last Good Time. Kardos’ most recent novel, Before He Finds Her, explores the adventure of a 17 year-old named Melanie who has lived the hidden life of someone in the Witness Protection program. That is, until insight into her circumstances lead her to leave the life she ...
December 07, 2015
Our sixth and final nominee for this year’s Pushcart Prize is Rebecca Makkai’s story “The George Spelvin Players” (35.2). Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. Rebecca Makkai The George Spelvin Players Barnes Harlow was actually Jason something, but no one dreamed of calling him that. He was Barnes ...
December 05, 2015
Our fifth nominee for this year’s Pushcart Prize is Sally Wen Mao’s poem “Seance for the Living” (35.1). Read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. Sally Wen Mao Seance for the Living You once said: the remnant prairie is also not love, however long it frets. But I stood in the center of ...