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Even More from Issue 24.1 Online
Will Donnelly, Online Editor
We’ve already posted a few of the details about our latest issue online, and we hope you’ll be enjoying the print issue very soon as well, if you’re not already, but with Issue 24.1, there’s now more than ever before online. This fall, we’ve used a site called Issuu.com to convert a big sample of our print journal into a page-turning electronic edition.   [more]
Arianne Zwartjes, winner of the 2011 Gulf Coast Prize for Nonfiction, talks about her essay, “Suturing of Wounds or Words”
Arianne Zwartjes
Melissa Dziedzic: What inspired you to think of things in terms of the physical body? Have anatomy and biology been a long time interest of yours?

Arianne Zwartjes: I started thinking of this project in January of 2008 when I became an EMT (an Emergency Medical Technician) with additional training in wilderness medicine.   [more]
from "Live Nude Essay!"
Joe Bonomo
In the final chapter of his Greenwich Village memoir Kafka Was The Rage, Anatole Broyard describes the aching, joyous condition of sex in the years immediately following the Second World War. Even in a neighborhood we associate with sophistication and robust experimentation, sex in 1947 was baffling to the longing ...  [more]
The Placeless-ness in Duncan Ganley's Location Shots: An Introduction by Rachel Cook
Rachel Cook
A photograph records a place at a particular point in time; therefore, the photograph is always pointing to the past in one way or another. The image becomes evidence to the fact that someone was there, someone stood in front of a spectacle and observed it. ...  [more]
The 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose
Ian Stansel, Editor
We're very excited to announce the winner and runners-up for the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose. Our thanks to this year's judge, Sarah Manguso.

Winner: "Grand Canyon II" by Erica Olsen of Dolores, CO
Runners-up: "Why I Became a Fireman" by Paul Zaic of Dumfries, VA; and "Master Bedroom" by Sonja Vitow of Brighton, MA ...  [more]
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