Fifth Wednesday Journal is an independent biannual literary magazine
featuring fiction, poetry, essays, photography, interviews, and book
reviews.
Current Issue
- Guest Fiction Coeditors: Jonis Agee and Brent Spencer
-
Guest Poetry Editor: Christina Pugh
For the first time FWJ
will have Guest Fiction Coeditors.
Jonis Agee is the author of thirteen books, three of them
(Strange Angels, Bend This Heart, and Sweet Eyes) named
Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her most recent novel
is The River Wife (Random House). Other honors include the Mark Twain
Award and the John Gardner Fiction Award. She is the Adele Hall Professor of
English at The University of Nebraska — Lincoln, where she teaches creative
writing and contemporary fiction. http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/ageebio.htm
Brent Spencer is the author of The Lost Son and Are
We Not Men?, both from Arcade Publishing. His short stories have appeared
in The Atlantic Monthly, The American Literary Review, Epoch, The
Missouri Review, GQ, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
A story was included in the 2007 edition of Best American Mystery Stories, edited
by Carl Hiaasen. He teaches fiction writing and screenwriting at Creighton
University and is at work on a new novel. http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/ncw/spencer.htm
Christina Pugh
Christina Pugh is the author of two books of poems: Restoration (Northwestern
University Press /TriQuarterly Books, 2008) and Rotary (Word Press,
2004), which received the Word Press First Book Prize. She has also
published a chapbook, Gardening at Dusk (Wells College Press, 2002).
Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, TriQuarterly,
Ploughshares, and
other periodicals, as well as in anthologies. Her honors have included
the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the
Grolier Poetry Prize, an individual artist fellowship in poetry from the Illinois
Arts Council, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from Poetry magazine,
a Whiting Fellowship for the Humanities, and residencies at the Ragdale and
Ucross colonies. Pugh’s criticism has recently appeared in Poetry,
Verse, Ploughshares, and The Emily Dickinson Journal. She
is an associate professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/people/prof/cpugh/bio.html
We are pleased and proud to announce our special features for the
Fall 2011 issue. To order, click
here.
Taking the Fifth with Elizabeth Strout
www.elizabethstrout.com
Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won
the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. She is the author of two previous novels, Abide
with Me, a national bestseller, and Amy and Isabelle,
also a New York Times Bestseller.
Poetry Around Us with Ed Roberson
www.edroberson.net
We will feature new work and an interview with Ed Roberson, the author
of eight books of poetry. His latest book, To See the Earth Before
the End of the World was published by Wesleyan University Press
in 2010. He is Distinguished Artist in Residence at Northwestern University.
Release Party
The editors and supporters invite you to celebrate the release of
the Fall 2011 issue with us at:
The Book Cellar
Wednesday, November 9th, 6:30pm
4736 N. Lincoln Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60625
773.293.2665
Free and open to the public. Complimentary wine, coffee, and soft
drinks at the Book Cellar Café. Details here...
FWJ Editor's Prize 2011
Click here to find the winners...
Opportunities
to be
a part of a national literary publication ...
Learn more …
Fifth Wednesday Journal
in the Classroom —
A program for faculty and students.
Learn
more …
