Witness Magazine
A Review of “Healing Las Vegas”
“It is an embrace meant to renew our energies and replenish our soul.” [Read More]
Witness 2020 Literary Awards — Nonfiction Finalists
Hello, Dark Holidays…
How does one cry for help from these seasonal prisons? –On Beauty, by Zadie Smith Merry and bright? Or dark and dismal? Depending on how you holiday, we have you in mind this season with an entirely new zine. We’re spiking the eggnog to introduce spiced realism and bittersweet fantasy to this problematic season. We’re… [Read More]
2020 Annual Literary Awards is Now Open!
Introducing the Spring 2019 issue of Witness: Disarm
The Spring 2019 issue of Witness is here! Featuring: Fiction by Mark Budman, Miriam Cohen, Samar Fitzgerald, Jameelah Lang, Robert McBrearty, Lance Olsen, Jennifer Sears, Courtney Sender, Eric Severn, and Christine Vines Poetry by Kazim Ali, Marina Blishteyn, Lauren Camp, Trace DePass, Ricardo Hernandez, Adrian Lurssen, and Gale Marie Thompson Nonfiction by Amy Collini, David… [Read More]
Announcing the winners of the 2019 Witness Literary Awards
The editors of Witness are pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the first Witness Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry. Poetry judge Hanif Abdurraqib has selected Sophia Stid’s poem “Apophatic Ghazal” as the first-place winner and Renia White’s poem “lump” as the runner-up. Fiction judge Lesley Nneka Arimah has selected Jane Pek’s story… [Read More]
Witness Launches Annual Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry
The editors of Witness are pleased to announce that we are open for submissions to the first annual Witness Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry. Submissions to our 2019 contest will be open from August 15 through October 1. *Note: Contest deadline has been extended to October 7* One winner in each genre receives $500… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
Ghosts – Vol. XXVII No. 1 (Spring 2014)
David Maisel / INSTITUTE Editor’s Comment Maile Chapman, Witness editor Fiction James Gallant, Segovia in Uruguay Elvis Bego, Hamza the Comedian Sarah Strickley, Peek-a-Boo Bipin Aurora, Satish Kapoor David Rutschman, The Squirrels David Driscoll, Orphans On the Moon Maxim Loskutoff, Bobby’s Brain Elizabeth Eslami, New Year Heidi Diehl, Voice Mail Almasi Hines, Women and Men… [Read More]