PoetryErin Adair-Hodges, Aileen Bassis, Emma Bolden, Ashley Chambers,  Karen Craigo, Kwame Dawes, Matthew Henriksen, Erin Hoover, Cindy E. King, EJ Levy, Laurin Becker Macios, Emily Mohn-Slate, Cindy Hunter Morgan, Nancy Carol Moody, Brian Simoneau, Lindsay Tigue, John Walser, PJ Williams

FictionCharles Booth, Ayşe Papatya Bucak, K.L. Cook, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Nickalus Rupert, Kami Westhoff

NonfictionMarcia Aldrich, BJ Hollars, Devin Latham, Lee Martin, Robin McCarthy, Ander Monson, Alexis Paige, Bonnie J. Rough, Cait Weiss

ArtKatrina Andry, Taylor Baldwin, Luke Ball, Jenny Blumenfield, Dara Engler, Motoko Kamada, Joseph Kameen, Lauren Rose Kinney & Patrick Vincent, Vitus Shell, Bonnie Stipe

The Pinch Literary Journal proudly presents its 35th anniversary issue - a sleek, sophisticated, and distinct tribute to the literary arts. 

Issue 35.1 includes the winners of the the 2014 Pinch Literary Awards. Sarah Viren's essay "My Murderer's Futon" won the Pinch Literary Nonfiction Contest (as judged by Lee Martin); Mark Wagennar's poem, "Shake & Bake Blues (Midwest Blues)" which won the Pinch Poetry Contest (as judged by Adam Clay); and Emily Ruth Verona, who won the Pinch Literary Fiction contest with her short story, "Care."

In Issue 34.2 we’ve got a lineup of fiction from Gretchen VanWormer, Jessica Newman, Vera Kurian, Alisha Karabinus, Kim Drew Wright, Mike Meginnis and Gabriel Houck.

Creative nonfiction in this issue comes from Sarah Vallance, Matthew Vollmer, Emily Rich, Angela Woodward, Sarah M. Wells and Jamie Lyn Smith.

In Issue 34.1 we’ve got a lineup of fiction from Mary-Kim Arnold, Claire Harlan Orsi, Christine Friedlander, K vish, Anne Doten and Nick Kocz.

Creative nonfiction in this issue comes from Alicia Catt, Rebecca Huntman, Jill Talbot, Kathleen Blackburn and Melissa Ferrone.

We’ve got poetry for you from John McCarthy, Mark Wagenaar, Carleen Tibbetts, Eric Anderson, Kat Finch, Shivani Mehta, Rick Bursky, Molly Beckwith, Abraham Smith, Lena Moses-Schmitt, Lucy Biederman, Mikko Harvey, Ryan Bollenbach, Catherine Bresner, Chloe Anne Campbell, Kim Stoll, Opal C. McCarthy, Leia Darwish, Suzi F. Garcia, Julie Henson, Alan Michael Parker, Emily Bludworth De Barrios, Colleen Barry, Anders Carlson-Wee, Charlie Clark, Priya Keefe, Lauren Clark, Paul Beilstein, Tarfia Faizullah, Katie Willingham and Carrie Green.

In Issue 33.2, we’ve got fiction from Joseph Rein, Jaclyn Dwyer, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Amanda Leahy, David James Poissant and Tessa Mellas.

We’ve got creative nonfiction from Marcia Aldrich, Kristen Radtke, Steve Adams, Sonya Huber and Aubrey Hirsch.

Poetry contributors for this issue are Allison Seay, Sharon Wang, Jen Edwards, Avni Vyas & Anne Barngrover, Cindy Beebe, James Tadd Adcox, JD Scott, Doug Fuller, C Dylan Bassett, Kelly Forsythe, Felicia Zamora, Sandra Meek, Erin Dorney, Kathleen Rooney & Elisa Gabbert, Nathan Parker, Janet Bowdan, Anne Champion, Emily Sketch Haines, Lee Sharkey, Norman Dubie, Kim Lozano, Gordon Osing, Chris Emslie,  Wendy Xu, Carl Phillips and Kwame Dawes.

In Issue 33.1, we’ve got an interview with Randall Kenan, author of Only The Dead Know Chapel Hill, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, and A Visitation of Spirits, among others.

Our fiction offerings include work by Darren Morris, D.J. Thielke, Lindsey Drager, Dylan Brie Ducey, and Devin Murphy.

We’ve also got creative nonfiction from Marilyn Abildskov, Andrew Johnson, Rachel Riederer, Joey Franklin, and Jillian Weiss.

This issue, we’ve got an interview on story craft and character development with the always spectacular Bobbie Ann Mason. We’re also serving up incredible poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction from Roxane Gay, Michael Croley, Nicholas Wong, Christine Stewart, Meg Cowen, Ray McManus, Raymond Fleischmann, Christopher Kempf, Eireann Lorsung, David Roderick, Daniel Browne, William Lusk Coppage, Jax Peters Lowell, Derek Palacio, Susan Gubernat, John Vanderslice, Allison Campbell, Maria Rapoport, Traci Brimhall, Charlotte Boulay, James Crizer, Bryce Emley, Mark Jay Brewin, Jr., Helen Phillips, Brad Henderson, Harold Whit Williams, Ira Sukrungruang, Elizabeth O’Brien, Anthony Opal, Tim Hayes, Sydney Lea, and Tory Adkisson. We’re also pleased to bring you the winning entries from the University of New Orleans Creative Contest, as judged by the editorial staff of The Pinch, including pieces by Kiki Whang, Jill Frischhertz, and Anne Royan.

Featuring interviews with Marge Piercy and Richard Tillinghast. Fiction and poetry by our wonderful Literary Award winners: Stu Dearnley, Judith Edelman, Claudine R. Moreau and John Sibley Williams. We also have incredible poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction from Steve Adams, Will Boast, Gaylord Brewer, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott, Josh Dorman, Chris Fink, Mary Flanagan, Amy Fraser, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Carrie Green, Todd Hearon, Darren Jackson, Jaybo, Jason M. Jones, Jason Koo, Anna Leahy, Scott Nadelson, Alison Pelegrin, Jennifer Perrine, Alison Prine, Shelley Puhak, Jennifer Richter, Alex Roulette, Laurie Sewall, Lee Sharkey, and Matthew Vollmer.

Featuring an interview with Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin.

Featuring an interview with Robert Root.  

Featuring an interview with Lee Sharkey. 

Featuring interviews with James Brasfield and Michael Knight. 

Featuring an interview with Percival Everett. 

This issue features an interview with Floyd Skloot, the author of fifteen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as a visual art feast from Nancy Cheairs, Mary Reed, Mark Ducklo, Bobby Spillman, and Alex Stein.

Issue 28.2 features an interview with poet C.K. Williams, plus poetry by Allison Joseph, Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, Troy Jollimore, D. A. Powell, Janna Layton, Farrah Field, Keith Montesano, Jen Bills, Brady Rhoadses, Eli Goldblatt, Elizabeth Skurnick, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Patricia Waters, D. Antwan Stewart, Amy Wright, Tim Lockridge, A. L. Nielsen, and Barbara Tramonte.

Issue 28.1 features our 2007 River City Writing Award winners, including Mary Ziegler and Amber Gross for fiction and Len Krisak, Brad Modlin, and Chris Baker for poetry.

Issue 27.2 features fiction from Hana Park, the winner of the 2007 Patrick W. Ryan Undergrad Writing Contest.

In issue 27.1, the Pinch was proud to publish the River City Writing Award winners, including Immy Wallenfels, J.C Todd, Anthony Russell White, and Lones Seiber. Interviews with award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye and best-selling author Nick Hornby make this issue especially lovable.

There is an embarrassment of riches in issue 26.2, including poetry by Rita Mae Reese, Weston Cutter, Jason Koo, Danielle Sellers, Robert Nazarene, Andrea Hollander Budy, Ron Rash, Donna Prinzmetal, R. Kees, Julia Levine, Dana Sonnenschein, Tom Chandler, Chris Baker, Peter Kline, Alison Touster-Reed, Marilyn Kallet, Linda Parsons Marion, Dave G. W. Scott, and Arthur Smith.

Issue 26.1 proudly presents River City Writing Award Winners Jill Rosenberg, Hal Ackerman, Ciaran Cooper, Richard Fox, and Karen Pittelman.