Celebrate the Publication of Our Newest Issue

Join us on Saturday September 27 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Novel Memphis for our fall release party. Meet and mingle with our contributors, and the current editorial staff of the Pinch. Drinks and bites from 6 to 6:30. You’ll also be able to purchase issue 45.2 before it is available to the general public and get your copy signed by some of the authors in the issue.

Readers Featured in Fall 2025 Issue

Whitney Collins. The author of two story collections: RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES (Sarabande Books, 2024), which was longlisted for The Story Prize, and BIG BAD (Sarabande Books, 2021), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize, a Gold Medal IPPY, and a Bronze Medal INDIES.

Kelsey D. Mahaffey is a Nashville poet and the author of the chapbook, No Fault of Water, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Readers Featured in PJO 15

Alexa Doran recently completed her PhD in Poetry at Florida State University. Her collection DM Me, Mother Darling won the 2020 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize and was published in April 2021 (Bauhan). She is also the author of the chapbook Nightsink, Faucet Me a Lullaby (Bottlecap Press 2019). You can look for work from Doran in recent or upcoming issues of New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, and Psaltery and Lyre, among others.

Robert Frankel is a writer and veteran whose work focuses on queer folks and outcasts. He writes fiction, screenplays, and—sometimes—a poem or two. His work has been published in Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine and is forthcoming in The Kismet Magazine. A native Texan, he now lives in Los Angeles.

Emma Thomas Jones, also known as E. Thomas Jones, is a bi+ poet from Georgia who holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas. She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee as well as the recipient of the 2018 Lily Peter fellowship and the 2019 C. D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize. She has been published in The Southern Review, The McNeese Review, American Literary Review, and others. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas.

Heidi Kasa is the author of Split (Monday Night Press, 2022), and her writing has appeared in Barrelhouse, Ruminate, and The Racket, among others. She won the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Prize. Kasa’s flash fiction collection The Beginners won the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Contest, and is forthcoming in 2025. Her first poetry collection, The Bullet Takes Forever, is forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press in 2025. She works as an editor and creates handmade artist books.

Darby Power is a hybrid-forms writer and teacher from Los Angeles. They are an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama, where they are also pursuing an MA through the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. They were a finalist for the 2024 Elizabeth Meese Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the 2024 Page Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and their work has been featured in the New South Young Playwrights Festival and in storytwigs. They are the managing editor of Black Warrior Review, and were the 2024 co-editor of Boyfriend Village.

Seth Wade is a philosopher in the ethics of technology. You can read his fiction and poetry in publications like Strange Horizons, McSweeney’s, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Hunger Mountain Review, and elsewhere. He is also a Pushcart Prize nominee.