…by our judge, Kristen Arnett, and held our readers captivated with Greenberg’s particular flare for world building and craft. Our Fiction Editor, Wendy Wimmer, writes “‘Delivery’ is doing some Ray Bradbury-level world building, but what kept me hooked were the characters. The intensity and longing in this story is palpable and I enjoyed reading the story the first time I… [Read More]
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Reading from Online Issue: Jane Zwart
…that stillness to the page.” As a final read to our Fall/Winter 2020 series, we are pleased to present another favorite from the issue, for your reading pleasure. Jane Zwart teaches English at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have previously appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, Rattle, Threepenny… [Read More]
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…feature the work of emerging voices alongside that of established writers. Submit Online Reading Periods September: Submissions open for our Spring themed issue (print.) We also open our call for the Witness Literary Awards during this reading period. January: General submissions open for our Fall/Winter issue (online.) Unthemed. TBA: Special capsule issues (Summer or Winter Issues). We are open in… [Read More]
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…a finger across Josie’s cheek. “The hammock,” Josie said. “I fell asleep.” “Where’s Mia?” Neil said. Bryce was now unfurling him toward the wall, and he turned his chin to Josie as he neared the refrigerator and then as Bryce pulled him close. “I’m not sure. I was reading all afternoon.” Her mom stopped moving. “All afternoon? Since we left?”… [Read More]
Reading from Magic Issue: Kristina Ten
Two Witness Weekends left! We are so thrilled to be sharing readings from our Magic issue all month long; join us every Saturday and Sunday for new videos from contributors and 2020 Lit Award winners. This weekend, we’re celebrating work from Kristina Ten. Ten’s enchanting short story, “The Dramatic Haircut”, exists in a wild world that plunks the main character… [Read More]
Reading from Magic Issue: Michele Sharpe
We are in the final days of our Virtual Launch party! Thank you for joining us for these Witness Weekends. We are grateful to our Magic contributors and 2020 Lit Award Winners for sharing their work all month! Today we have another 2020 Lit Award Winner, Michele Sharpe, whose essay “When a Child Offends”, was selected by our nonfiction judge,… [Read More]
Reading from Online Issue: Christopher Citro
Witness Weekends are back with a bang! Join us as Christopher Citro reads from his poem, “The New Avenues the Only Avenues We Have,” from the Fall/Winter 2020 Online Issue. Citro’s work was a fast favorite among our readers, who found his poems well-crafted, intimate and surprising. Ultimately we were drawn in to the blue-dark musings and the still, longing… [Read More]
Reading from Online Issue: Adrie Rose
Adrie Rose reads a selection of work along with her Pushcart-nominated poem, “The Anthropocene” (4:00), which appears in Witness Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2020 Issue. Rose’s poem became a prescient mantra for the work we selected in this season of pre- and full-pandemic lockdown. Where she writes “The seasons / are coming loose,” we caught a glimmer of what would become the… [Read More]
Reading from Online Issue: Cleo Qian
Cleo Qian reads from the short story, “We Were There,” which appears in our Fall/Winter 2020 Issue. Qian’s work first caught our readers’ interest with its beautiful attention to detail. “The author has a gift for visceral descriptions, for creating an atmosphere,” one reader noted. Another reader was compelled by the thought-provoking imagery, and even more readers will be keeping… [Read More]
Reading from Online Issue: Kristina Ten
Kristina Ten reads an excerpt from her short story, “Two Hundred Ways to Disappear,” from our Fall/Winter 2020 Issue. Our readers quickly fell in love with this one, and Fiction Editor, Wendy Wimmer, notes that this story “is one that I kept thinking about for weeks… …The boyfriend, the hole, the language how it twisted and cajoled. The sentences are… [Read More]
Reading from Online Issue: Molly Reid
Molly Reid reads from her Pushcart-nominated short story, “Talk with Stranger,” which appears in our Fall/Winter 2020 Issue. This story was selected as a finalist in our second Witness Literary Fiction Awards, and we liked it so much we just had to have it for the issue. Reid’s work is beautifully rendered as she wields tension deftly throughout this piece…. [Read More]
Reading from Online Issue: Arianne Zwartjes
Arianne Zwartjes reads from her essay, “Cities of Broken Teeth, Cities of Dust and Blood” from Witness Magazine’s Fall/Winter 2020 Issue. Our readers were drawn into this thought-provoking and lyric work in which Zwartjes explores devastation in the wake of human cruelty and violence in times of war. It is an artful composition at a heartbreaking timbre; we hope you… [Read More]
