Pamela Daum / “Henry House, Manassas Battlefield” Download a copy for your eReader. Fiction Nate Haken, The Vine and the Branches Emily Elbom, Everybody Doing Pretty Here Risa Mickenberg, She Wasn’t Their Mother Poetry Gillian Hamel, NO DISASTER 113 / NO DISASTER 354 / NO DISASTER 083 Ely Shipley, The Witch Doctor Told Me /… [Read More]
Witness Magazine
Vol. XXVI No. 2 (Summer 2013)
Alexis Rhone Fancher / “Perfect Form”An acrobat trains on the Windward Pavilion in Venice Beach, California (5/1/11). Download a copy for your eReader. Fiction Elizabeth Anderson, Daredevil Sam Katz, Island 821 Mimi Lipson, Moscow, 1968 Michael Pearce, Hostage Joel Smith, After St. Ex / Hatemann is Not a Friend Poetry Alicia Mountain, (I began to… [Read More]
Redemption – Vol. XXVI No. 1 (Spring 2013)
Ed Kashi / VII Photo Agency Fiction Abdul Shakoor Jawad, The Hasher Dennis Kennedy, War Babies Kristen Blanco Gottstein, How Easily Swept Away Patty Houston, Beer Sponsor Andrew Wickenden, Inklinks Elise Blackwell, Secessio Daniel A. Hoyt, Girl X Mark Rigney, The Last Horse in Skopje Afsheen Farhadi, The World at His Feet Sebastian Langdell, You,… [Read More]
Vol. XXV No. 3 (Fall 2012)
Venetia Dearden / VII Fiction Terry Dubow, Wyoming Anne Elliott, Pink Stefanie Freele, The Widow, The Pillow, The Sagging House Jessica Johannesson Gaitán, That’s what Travel must be like Vedran Husić, Like Coming Home Tom Lake, The Chambermaid Poetry Jaclyn Dwyer, The Cavendish Is Nearing Extinction Kent Shaw, How a Country Can Lay Claim To… [Read More]
Vol. XXV No. 2 (Summer 2012)
Tomas van Houtryve / VII Fiction Emily Alford, Aftercatch C.P. Boyko, Sympathetic Mark Brazaitis, Blackheart Paul Robert Chesser, Ambulanced Jim Kempner, The Beast in Paradise Poetry Allison Campbell, You / Loneliness / Humanisticism Bruce Cohen, Sour Candy Christopher Kondrich, from Contrapuntal Anne Marie Rooney, Entry: open sky / Entry: open word Cameron Witbeck, The Michigan… [Read More]
Disaster – Vol. XXV No. 1 (Spring 2012)
David H. Wells / Aurora Photos Fiction Ayşe Papatya Bucak, The History of Girls Jonathan Callahan, Cymbalta Mauro Javier Cardenas, The Revolutionaries Try Again Chris Gavaler, A Very Light Fever Marisa Handler, Blood and Honey Natalie Harris, How Such a Thing Could Happen Dustin M. Hoffman, Avoiding Accident in the Subdivisions Sarah Hulse, Roses L…. [Read More]
ESSAYS
Vol. XXIV No. 3 (Fall 2011)
Jessica Dimmock / VII Network Fiction Rosalie Morales Kearns, The Associated Virgins Hadley Moore, Mother and Child Allyson Shaw, The Wintering Party Laura Hulthen Thomas, Krupov’s Gym Quintan Ana Wikswo, Mercy Killing Aktion Poetry Jennifer Kronovet, With the Boy, System / With the Boy, in the House / With the Boy, Cemetery / With the… [Read More]
from the Editor’s Comment
“Only in America am I African,” opened Chimamanda Adichie, the Nigerian-born novelist, tossing a furtive look across the mostly American crowd assembled at UNLV’s Beam Music Center. “Being African means being hyper-aware. That I come from a place that is grossly misunderstood by a lot of people…breeds a certain kind of defensiveness. This applies in… [Read More]
from the Editor’s Comment
At Witness, as we sought manuscripts for “Captured: Writing About Film and Photography,” these questions resonated deeply with the material we collected: How does the lens shape our vision? How does the act of filming affect our behavior? Our writing? How do we represent our ideas about how representations are made, and what, if anything,… [Read More]
from the Editor’s Comment
Celebrated in an April 2010 BMI panel, “Blurring Borders” was inspired by foreign-born authors who reside in the U.S. and write in English about their native countries. The panel, featuring Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, and Pablo Medina, thus became a launching point to consider borders of all kinds, chiefly those that edge place and the… [Read More]
Experimental Fiction – Vol. III No. 2/3 (1989)
Doug Hagley Fiction Misha, Chippoke Na Gomi Kathy Acker, A Section from a Work about Rimbaud Mark Amerika, Village Tripping Amiri Baraka, The New Recreation Program Jonathan Baumbach, from Stills from Imaginary Movies Jerry Bumpus, Mr. Tangible George Chambers, from Stickers Stephen Dixon, Olivia’s Essay Rikki Ducornet, Minus Twitty at Beetle Gulch Raymond Federman, The… [Read More]