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Ploughshares is the award-winning non-profit literary magazine based at Emerson College in Boston. Most of our print issues are guest-edited, and our mission is to present varying viewpoints. Our blog is an extension of our print publication, and so we feature writing from guest-bloggers. We present their opinions to our readers in order to foster a lively discussion, but do not necessarily endorse all viewpoints published on our blog.
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Category Archives: Contributors’ Updates
Carolyne Wright’s Mania Klepto features poems first printed in Ploughshares
First impressions last. We know this from our proverbial knowledge base and from personal experience. These impressions, however, do not last because they are static — once an effect, never more affected — but because they stay with us and … Continue reading
An Interview with Zacharis Award Winner Christine Sneed
We are happy to announce that Christine Sneed has won the twenty-first John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her short story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010). The $1,500 … Continue reading
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40th Anniversary Interview with DeWitt Henry
In honor of our 40th anniversary, the guest editor of our commemorative Summer 2011 issue, DeWitt Henry, answered a few questions about the past, present, and future of our beloved literary magazine. To read more about the 4oth anniversary and … Continue reading
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The Fortieth Anniversary Post
As some of you may already know, Ploughshares was founded in 1971 by then Harvard graduate student DeWitt Henry and Peter O’Malley, co-owner of the Plough and Stars, an Irish Pub in Cambridge, MA, from which we get our name. … Continue reading
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Praise for co-founder and guest editor DeWitt Henry’s new memoir
DeWitt Henry, who co-founded Ploughshares, will guest edit our 40th anniversary issue – the Summer 2011 issue – set to be released on August 15th. We are proud of and excited for both his contributions to this magazine and his … Continue reading
Colm Toibin’s issue on Kindle
We are so excited to announce that the Spring 2011 issue of Ploughshares guest edited by Colm Toibin is now available for the Kindle! It only costs $3.99 and you can purchase it on Amazon here. The Terrance Hayes issue … Continue reading
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DeWitt Henry interviewed by Night Train
Our next guest editor and co-founder of Ploughshares, DeWitt Henry, was interviewed recently by Rusty Barns for Night Train. The Summer 2011 issue will celebrate our 40th anniversary as a literary magazine -which wouldn’t have been possible without DeWitt’s contributions. … Continue reading
Colm Toibin on Guest Editing Ploughshares
In this video, Colm Toibin, guest editor of the Spring 2011 issue of Ploughshares, describes what the unique guest-editing process was like for him. He mentions that the experience was like building; he started with established authors and moved on to … Continue reading
Editor in Chief, Ladette Randolph, reads at Newtonville Books
We would like to congratulate our editor-in-chief, Ladette Randolph, on the release of her novel, A Sandhills Ballad, in paperback. To celebrate, Ladette will read from the novel on April 13th at 7 pm at Newtonville Books in Newton, MA. She … Continue reading
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Interview with Valerie Brennan, cover artist for the Colm Toibin Issue
Valerie Brennan is the artist whose painting appears on the cover of our Spring 2011 issue, guest edited by Colm Toibin. I (the web/marketing editor here at Ploughshares) asked her a few questions about this particular painting, current inspirations, and … Continue reading
