Witness Magazine

Witness Magazine

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 publishes one print issue and one online issue a year, and increasingly seeks out work that contextualizes the American experience by highlighting issues of global concern.

The Holocaust – Vol. I No. 1 (1987)

Bruce Ian Meader Fiction Madison Smartt Bell, The Forgotten Bridge Tom Clark, from The Exile of Celine Peter Najarian, from Daughters of Memory Clara Asscher-Pinkhof, Star Children Poetry Tom Absher, Newsreel David Ignatow, Its Name Charles Simic, That Bit of Vaudeville Ruth Whitman, The Testing of Hanna Senesh Nonfiction Eugene Arden, There Was No Cheering… [Read More]

Writings from Prison – Vol. I No. 3 (1987)

Joanne Curran Fiction Fielding Dawson, Triumph! Melvin James, Sunday’s Worship Banning K. Lary, Death of a Duke Kent Monroe, Jr., Perple Jesus Poetry George C. Allen, Jr., Petri Dish Self-Portrait Leanne Archibeque, Machaca Darrah Cloud, Inmates Charles Culhane, Autumn Yard R. Geren Edwards, Nascene Raymond Ringo Fernandez, Cell-Rapping / Plastic and Steel Kirpal Gordon, Under… [Read More]