The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by Peggy Schumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, and more.


The Winter 2024-25 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Winter 2024-25 Issue, edited by John Skoyles, features poetry and prose by Joan Silber, Timothy Liu, Pádraig Ó Tuama, Emily Fragos, Charles Baxter, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, Malena Mörling, and more.


The Fall 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the most innovative voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Fall 2024 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features prose by Andre Dubus III, Gretchen E. Henderson, Benjamin Hoffmann, Aiysha Jahan, Joy Notoma, Shuchi Saraswat, Jen Silverman, Richard Stock, and Daniel Taylor.


The Summer 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Summer 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Rebecca Makkai, features prose by Dur e Aziz Amna, Ramona Ausubel, Peter Mountford, Khaddafina Mbabazi, DK Nnuro, and more.

The Spring 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited by Laila Lalami, features poetry and prose by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O'Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, and more.


The Winter 2023-24 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Winter 2023-24 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features poetry and prose by Richard Bausch, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Ian Stansel, Ariana Benson, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Marie Howe, and more.


The Fall 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Fall 2023 Issue, edited by Ladette Randolph, features prose by Anthony David, Parul Kapur, John Keeble, Diane Hinton Perry, Austin Woerner, Nafis Shafizadeh, Wiam El-Tamami, Jamie Lyn Smith, and Jim Shepard.


The Summer 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Summer 2023 Issue, guest-edited by Tom Perrotta, features poetry and prose by Marianne Leone, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Andre Dubus III, Fabio Morabito, Jen Trynin, Olufunke Grace Bankole, and Jess Walter, among others.


The Spring 2023 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

The Spring 2023 Issue, guest-edited by Alice Hoffman, features poetry and prose by Danusha Lameris, Jennifer Haigh, Victor LaValle, Mary Gordon, Diane Ackerman, Lavanya Vasudevan, and Jai Chakrabarti, among others.

The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features original poetry and prose by Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez, Grace Li, Sara Elkamel, and more

The Fall 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Frances de Pontes Peebles, Daniel Peña, E. K. Ota, Aisha Bhoori, Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton, John Fulton, Micah Perks, Ben Stroud, and Emily Waples. 

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

As Jamel Brinkley writes in his introduction, “As I undertook the pleasurable task of reaching out to writers whose work I love for this issue, I realized I wanted voices that were both skillful and troubling.... I ultimately allowed myself to be guided by my ear. I ended up with a clutch of work 

that, to my ear, sang with what Lorca calls “a scorched throat,” forms of eloquence that lean into trouble instead of away from it.” The Summer 2022 Issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Jamel Brinkley, features original prose by Rav Grewal-Kök, Arinze Ifeakandu, Gothataone Moeng, Lauren Morrow, and others. 

 

Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

The Spring 2022 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”  

 

The Spring 2022 Issue, guest-edited by Ilya Kaminsky, features original poetry and prose by Sheila Black, Andres Cerpa, Victoria Chang, Jane Hirshfield, Mary Jo Bang, Paige Lewis, Layli Long Soldier, Khadijah Queen, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Hassaan Mirza, and others.

The Winter 2021-22 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”  

 

The Winter 2021-22 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features original poetry and prose by Yasmine Ameli, Beth Bachmann, Despy Boutris, Danielle Cadena Deulen, Leila Chatti, Andy Chen, Kwame Dawes, Lara Egger, William Fargason, Rebecca Foust, Daniel Garcia, Mike Good, J.P. Grasser, Jamella Hagen, Hannah Hirsh, Christiane Jacox, Tatiana Johnson-Boria, Andrew Koch, Kimberly Kruge, Michael Mark, Laura Minor, Nancy Mitchell, Stacy R. Nigliazzo, John Okrent, Christina Olson, Michelle Orsi, Courtney Queeney, brittny ray crowell, Hilda Raz, Kristin Robertson, Bobby C. Rogers, Aaron Smith, Adam Tavel, Anna Tomlinson, Corey Van Landingham, Ross White, El Williams III, Ed Falco, Lynn Kilpatrick, Diem Nguyen, Andrew Porter, Sonia Phillips Resika, Eric Roy, Sarah-Jane Stratford, Fei Sun, Meg Todd, Weike Wang, Michael Downs, Sherrie Flick, Mameve Medwed, and Springs Toledo.

The Fall 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”  

 

The Fall 2021 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsheen Farhadi, Christie Hodgen, Yxta Maya Murray, Mona Susan Power, Will Schluter, Nick Sweeney, Joan Wickersham, and Julian Zabalbeascoa. The stories and essays in the Fall 2021 Issue confront violence in our own time and in generations past, grappling with the very “ugliness” of human nature. 

The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

 

Ploughshares showcases the work of “writers who make the shapes they want to make, who follow the flow of the story and who remind us of all a story or an essay can do and be,” guest editor Aimee Bender writes in her introduction to the 50th Anniversary Issue. “Here, then, are some writers who work the form to hold the complexity, a bountifully inhabited sea of prose.” Contributors to the Summer 2021 Issue of Ploughshares include Nana Kwame Adjei-Breniyah, Rumaan Alam, Patrick Cottrell, Amelia Gray, Mona Awad, and others.

The Spring 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.” 

 

As guest-editor Laura van den Berg writes in her introduction, “At its core, literature is perhaps about simultaneously engaging with the past, with the ugliness and strangeness and wonder of history, while also creating new shapes on the page...In all of the works included in this issue, I felt the awesome gale-force of imagination blowing through the lines and the sentences; I felt possibility; I felt a meaningful augmentation to the collective understanding taking place.” The Spring 2021 issue features poetry and prose by Helen Phillips, Fernando A. Flores, Kaveh Akbar, Eloisa Amezcua, Carl Phillips, and many others.

The Summer 2019 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

As guest-editor Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his introduction, “We need to work in environments with a diversity of people to make sure that the views of others who are different from us can check; likewise, we need literature written from a variety of perspectives and by a wide range of authors for the same reason—so that literature itself can demand that we see the world differently from how we normally might.” Featuring new work from Roxane Gay, Elizabeth Strout, James Hannaham, Laila Lalami, Patricia Engel, and many others, the work in this issue is connected by the medley of voices framing contemporary literature.

The Spring 2019 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

As guest-editor Rigoberto González writes in his introduction, “Writing amplifies our questions and illuminates the unexpected places where we might find the answers. And if not the answers then an opportunity to reflect, rethink, or reimagine.” Featuring new poetry and prose by Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui, Joy Castro, Emily Raboteau, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and many others, the work in this issue reveals the power of contemplation.

Accompany Ellen Bass, Tom Jenks, Becky Hagenston, Tony Hoagland and others as they wrestle with the vulnerability of contemporary life, navigating party allegiance and confronting the contrast between hope and hopelessness. Grapple with gun violence, child abduction, and the employment of high school boys in slaughterhouses. Witness the extinction of Galápagos turtles and visit Florida, São Paulo, Lopez Island, and eastern Turkey. Attend goodbyes, embrace calamity, and accept the discomfort of seeing a loved one for the last time. Read narratives cultivated from the world around all of us.

Accompany Jill McCorkle, Allen Gee, Georgi Markov, Own King, and others as they grapple with the disappearance of body, culture, and neighbors. Visit Guatemala to witness the evolution of a past life. Meet a Bulgarian radio voice killed for telling ordinary stories. Face boisterous sideline characters and sullen internet personalities. Grapple with dinner party discussions and take a trip to Disney World. 

Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

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Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog publishes new writing daily. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.

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