by Kristina Ten “It’s no use being a magician’s girlfriend,” Mal’s friends warn her. “He’s still not going to tell his secrets.” In the beginning, it is a harmless, innocent thing—a daydream born during a matinee show, sometime between the audience-warm-up card tricks and the tide of applause when the volunteer’s missing twenty dollar… [Read More]
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Long Hard Day
by Eli Jacobs My family secret goes back to 1994. My brother Danny was in the last days of his life, dying of AIDS in a lower Manhattan hospital. I was thirty-one, and I’d been living in Israel since I’d moved there from New York, ten days after my wedding in 1986. I hardly ever… [Read More]
Night Class
by Jane Zwart At the far boundary of your innocence you will wake, aching against a pair of disappeared hips, and you will realize what you want. Years later the same dream— but roused from it by the rumpled man beside you, you will realize what you have. Tutored by dreams you will drive the… [Read More]
A Note on This Issue
Vol. XXXIII No. 3 – Fall/Winter 2020 “The seasons / are coming loose,” Adrie Rose writes in “The Anthropocene.” Rose’s poem and the other pieces in Witness’s Fall/Winter 2020 issue were written before pandemic lockdowns, before we entered the COVID-19 era in full. Yet these works speak presciently to the themes and anxieties that have… [Read More]
Happy Nevada Day!
Call for Volunteer Readers
Come join our *Witness* team! We are currently looking for volunteer readers, in every genre. For consideration, please send a short bio &/or CV, as well as your preferred genre(s) to witness.community@unlv.edu by Sept 25th. We can hardly wait!#writingcommunity #litmag #readers pic.twitter.com/mxHg2zxhiC — Witness Magazine (@witnessmag) September 21, 2020
Ambitious and Unrelenting
A Review of The Loneliest Band in France: A Novella By Veronica Klash The Loneliest Band in France: A Novella by Dylan Fisher, published by Texas Review Press is presented in halves. In the first, the reader follows Sri Lankan Migara de Silva through the streets of Montpelier, where he is studying at the local… [Read More]
Send Us Your Art!
Now accepting art for our 2021 Spring Issue! September 1st – November 1st Submit today! bit.ly/witnessTVart
Now Open for Submissions: Spring 2021!
We are now open for our Spring 2021 print issue: As Seen on TV. The theme is open to each author’s interpretation, and we encourage creative approaches. As COVID-19 continues to impact our lives, many of us have turned to television as a source of comfort. Yet, these familiar shows are now populated by characters… [Read More]
Introducing Our First Art Contest; Come Be a Part of q+1!
UPDATE: Deadline Extended to July 6th!
q+1 Issue: Thespians
by Kristin Ito “Thespians!” he shouts at us from the front of the crowded restaurant. Katie and I had been talking to the man ten minutes earlier at the bar. In his fifties or sixties, he wore Buddy Holly glasses and a wide Cheshire Cat smile. He’d ordered a couple of drinks, and while he… [Read More]
q+1 Issue: Temporary Organ
by Oona Robertson They say the uterus is the thing that holds a woman inside of herself. Blood-wetted. Always emptying or filling. A tide on the open ocean. Entangled. Drumming heartbeats. Blankets of blood thickness. Umbilical cord wrapping around and around and into us. This piece we hold internally, forking toward the tiny livers and… [Read More]
