Witness blends the features of a literary and an issue-oriented magazine to highlight the role of the modern writer as witness to his or her times. Launched in Detroit in 1987, the magazine is best known for showcasing work that defines its historical moment; special issues have focused on political oppression, religion, the natural world, crime, aging, civil rights, love, ethnic America, and exile. The issues “New Nature Writing,” “The Sixties,” “Sports in America,” and “The Best of Witness, 1987 – 2004” eventually appeared as university press anthologies.In 2007, Witness moved to Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The magazine now publishes one special print issue and two general online issues each year and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.
Witness XXIX.2 (Summer 2016) Now Live
The Witness Summer 2016 issue (XXIX.2) is now live.
Vol. XXIX.2 Summer 2016
CURRENT ISSUE » XXIX.2 (Summer 2016) Sugato Mukherjee / “The Living Gods of Malabar” Theyyam is an ancient religious tradition of Malabar in North Kerala, India. A hierarchy of gods and goddesses are believed to be embodied in flesh and blood by oracles, who use ritual music, dance, and chanting to portray and invoke the...
Vol. XXVIII No. 2 (Summer 2015)
Ashley Gilbertson / VII Fiction Sara C. Thomason, Liberation Day John Colasacco, The Boy Who Didn’t Wash Chris Fink, Strings Lindsay Sproul, Jack Armstrong Gwen Goodkin, One From Many Nonfiction Mike Smith, Shadow Texts Poetry Lia Greenwell, Montauk, NY Christopher Citro, Nerve Endings Like Strawberry Runners Cody Ernst, Unstuck Derek Gromadzki, Escapement Virginia Konchan, Anodyne...
Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Summer 2014)
Neil de la Flor / “Wraith”Veronica Ortiz (pianist) and Jahzel Dotel perform prior to the opening of Cask, a theatrical dance production created by Marissa Alma Nick based on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” on October 25, 2013, at the Miami Dade County Auditorium On.Stage Black Box. Fiction Michael Hyde, The...
Debut Collection from Contributor Rachel Mennies Now Available
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards now available from Texas Tech University Press.
