05/31/2024
Congratulations to Aelita Parker, Purvi Shah, and Max Pasakorn, winners of the 2024 swamp pink Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry!
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Submit fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from September 1st through May 31st, with the exception of the month of January, during which we only accept entries for our annual Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry, and the month of July, during which we only accept entries for Crazyshorts!, annual our short-short fiction contest. We ask that submissions of fiction and nonfiction are between 2,500 a
nd 8,500 words in length. Exceptional work that falls outside this range has found a home in Crazyhorse in the past, but it is an unusual occurrence. We are happy to consider simultaneous submissions, so long as you withdraw your work from consideration if it has been accepted elsewhere. Our response time is typically 10-16 weeks. Enter submissions here: https://crazyhorse.submittable.com/submit
05/10/2024
“Maui’s hook, a sad facsimile of it, hangs in our room. It oversees Husband and I as we discuss how strange we feel here—this new island, this side of it (so touristy), this Most Hawaiian hotel.” Read Danielle Batalion Ola’s essay, “I Had Better Tell You Where I Am,” today:https://buff.ly/3QcQD03
05/09/2024
But her eyes reach out to me across the 95A bus east to the river where I will teach her daughter / to not listen to her wisdoms. Sari woman’s eyes are pebbles from a sea I’ve forgotten.” Continue reading SJ Sindu’s poem, “I don’t know sari woman” today:
05/08/2024
“My whole life seemed to be going back and forth between these two cars, neither of which were mine. She popped open the door. Her face was scrunched up.” Read Patrick Dundon’s flash fiction, “Dislocated,” today:
05/07/2024
“It was late in the fall of my freshman year in college when I met Lila.” Read Susan Shepherd’s short story, “Sharks,” today:
05/06/2024
“Love, each time I drag a finger / to accept your call,...” continue reading Ross White’s poem, “FUGITIVE CAPTURED IN ARKANSAS 32 YEARS AFTER DARING PRISON BREAK,” today:
05/05/2024
“Every Sunday for a year, I tried to call my mother. This was 1971, after my father died and after she moved to Hawaii just as she started to forget things.” Read Pete Hack’s flash fiction, “At Least Once,” today: https://buff.ly/43rDllw
05/04/2024
“He sneaks into my bedroom but I’m awake, making my face blank. He pinches my cheeks into a smile.” Read Zen Ren’s essay, “I give my brother the talk,” today:
05/03/2024
“Zoe can feel the German Shepherds watching her. Cooper and Bear. Ears perked in the pointed shadow of the extended, green patio awning.” Read Jason Pfister’s short story, “House-sitting,” today: https://buff.ly/3wYAYdK
05/02/2024
“My substitute / father spoke / about his male / infertility.” Continue reading Bo Hee Moon’s poem, “Year of the Yin Black Rabbit” today:
05/01/2024
Issue no. 12 is live! Read all our astounding new work today:https://buff.ly/3HWLpk3
04/22/2024
“Suhaag Raat. Wrists heavy. Kalire, chura. Bells that sound my bridal, my ready. / Bells otherwise chiming from lonely cows.” Continue reading Kiran Bath’s (kiranbath_) poem, “The way home” today: https://buff.ly/3Tvd41e
04/19/2024
“He could sense her nearby. Since she died, he had felt her gaze on him like a cat’s from a dormer window.” Continue reading Sammy Stevens’ fiction, “The Caregiver,” today: https://buff.ly/49GNGMo
04/18/2024
“I stayed away from Mom’s bedroom / except for sifting paperwork and searching / for her gun...” continue reading Carrie Shipers' poem, “Farewell Tour,” today:
04/17/2024
“They let me in the room to ask my husband, Jerry, a question I couldn’t let go of, after all these years.” Continue reading Cheryl Pappas’ flash fiction, “After We’re Dead,” today: https://buff.ly/3SOCczx
04/16/2024
“before the train sets off, now, listen—it was only to tell stories—of ivy snaking / around the girth of enterprise,...” continue reading Sammy Lê’s () poem, “Ars poetica” today: https://buff.ly/4a7E3Hn
04/16/2024
We’re thrilled to announce that former contributor Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s debut memoir, Loose Of Earth, is out today! Current MFA student Suz Guthmann interviewed Blackburn regarding her thematics, process, and aims. Check it out here: https://buff.ly/3U3JmSn
04/15/2024
“I’m stuck in 1993 now, in this blank flaccid past, in which everyone is bored, in which even great events seem perfunctory and stupid.” Continue reading John Searcy’s flash fiction, “RABBITS,” today: https://buff.ly/4bJRmid
04/12/2024
“Wasn’t nobody on that prairie / that looked like me—” continue reading Janice N. Harrington’s poem, “KNOWING HOW TO LOOK,” today: https://buff.ly/49pRPV6
04/11/2024
“Whenever I make food for Marsha, she says I must have learned to cook from my mother.” Read Tierney Oberhammer’s short story, “It Ain’t Just,” today: https://buff.ly/3ws4OqU
04/10/2024
Issue no. 11 is live! Read all the terrific new work today: https://buff.ly/3HWLpk3
03/22/2024
Current MFA student Annie Grimes reviewed Halle Hill's debut collection of short stories, Good Women, for our blog. You can check it out here: https://buff.ly/3VkEtFv
03/21/2024
“We have no electricity. Again. I bathe with cold water in a dark bathroom, wear unironed clothes.” Read Sudha Balagopal’s () flash fiction, “Load-Shredding,” today: https://buff.ly/48hwPP5
03/20/2024
“It’s petrified. Maybe / that’s obvious / because it’s a dinosaur’s. After all / it’s still here / now available for purchase.” Read Natalie Padilla Young’s () poem, “Consolation,” and more: https://buff.ly/3uqJgdL
03/19/2024
“When Chuck came back at the end of the summer, he was different.” Read Sarah Freligh’s () short story, “As Beauty Does,” today: https://buff.ly/42DWOPF
03/16/2024
“The cats bring roach gifts / to remind me that living things kill / but I can’t even squash an ant anymore / can only whisper shoo, shoo...” Read Becca Klaver, “After a Long Slumber,” and more: https://buff.ly/3SOgXy2
03/15/2024
We're excited to announce the publication of Joshua Garcia's debut poetry collection, Pentimento, by Black Lawrence Press. Congratulations to our former swamp pink editorial assistant and Cofc MFA alumnus! Pick up your copy of Pentimento today: https://buff.ly/3QnY5G2
03/15/2024
“They say I was a handful. I’m still coming to terms with this fact. Very often it lays into me, sudden and terrifying, enkindling laughter or tears, and sometimes a startling mixture of both.” Read Young Rader’s () flash fiction, “A Difficult Child,” today: https://buff.ly/49FvToV
03/14/2024
“The garden where his soldiers hanged an old woman / Again smells of petrichor and tomato vines.” Read Christian Teresi’s poem “To Burn the Autocrat in Effigy” and more: https://buff.ly/49dHXhh
03/13/2024
“Martin Malquist worked as a chemistry teacher in a Victorville high school for 30 years. He thought of his career in this way—as work, rather than teaching—because very few of his students ever seemed to learn anything.” Read Lacy Arnett Mayberry’s () short story, “The Other Son” today: https://buff.ly/3wqiD93
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