02/07/2024
Congratulations to Josh Emmons, winner of this year’s Kinder/Crump Award, selected by Anjanette Delgado. Read more about his work, the prize, and our finalists on our website—link in bio!
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Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing (& Reviews) is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world.
• Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing (& Reviews) is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté, and Neustadt Prizes, recipients of Guggenheim, Whiting, National Book Critics Circle and National Book Awards, and many writers seeing their work
in print for the first time.
• The Pleiades Book Review (PBR) comprises half of each issue of Pleiades and features both essay reviews and shorter reviews of primarily small-press books.
• Pleiades Press publishes a book of poetry a year, as determined through the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize. Judges are poets of national prominence, and the contest is co-directed by Susan Ludvigson and Wayne Miller. Guidelines for the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize are available here.
• Pleiades Press also publishes a book a year through the Unsung Masters Series. Each volume focuses on an important writer whose work has been unjustly neglected and features both a generous sample of creative work and numerous essays. Unsung Masters Series volumes are distributed free to subscribers with the June issue of Pleiades and are also available through Small Press Distribution.
• Each year, the Pleiades Visiting Writers Series brings 8-10 writers of national prominence to the University of Central Missouri, where they read from their work to students, faculty, and members of the community.
• Please direct questions regarding poetry or the Pleiades Book Review to Wayne Miller. Please direct questions regarding fiction or nonfiction to Phong Nguyen.
• To have a book considered for review, send a review copy to: Pleiades Book Review • Dept of English, Martin 336 • University of Central Missouri • Warrensburg, MO 64093. Please note: not all sent books will be reviewed, though we do review 40+ books in each issue.
• If you are interested in submitting a book review to be considered for the PBR, please query Wayne Miller in the months of July or December. Queries and unsolicited reviews sent in other months cannot be considered. Note: PBR book reviews are 800-1200 words.
26/04/2024
“Like a fable, it is less about the truth than the atmosphere. Here is the curious child, and here the absentee husband. Here is the campsite, the riverbed, the empty American highway.” Read ‘s full review of PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER. , by Danielle Dutton, ( ) up on our website!
25/04/2024
“Raisa Tolchinsky’s electrifying and urgent debut, descends like Dante’s Inferno into a circuitous underworld: the female boxing ring.” Read Katherine James’s review of GLASS JAW by now up on our website!
28/02/2024
Time to polish those short stories! The Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction opens March 1-31. Anjanette Delgado will judge. Visit pleiadesmag.com/submit for full guidelines.
06/02/2024
Getting excited for the author signings happening at the Pleiades booth! Happy pub day to HAPPY EVERYTHING by ! Caitlin will be signing books Thursday. On Friday, we have the inimitable, intrepid , Poet Laureate of Alabama and author of DARK // THING. Come say hi and get your book signed!
30/01/2024
Mark your AWP calendars for our SHOW ME STATE extravaganza, featuring several incredible readers. Hope to see you at the Writers Place Friday night!
18/01/2024
BIG congrats to Mitchell Jacobs, winner of this year’s Prufer Poetry Prize, selected by Nicky Beer! Jacobs will win $1000 and publication of his poem, “At the Immersive Van Gogh Multimedia Projection Exhibit,” in our Spring 224 issue. Shout out to our Honorable Mention, Devanshi Khetarpal, and to all our finalists: Jordan Hamel, Jennessa Hester, Shannon Moran, and Lexi Pelle. Thanks to everyone who submitted—it was a pleasure to read your work!
11/01/2024
PLEIADES is super excited to co-host two fantastic off-sites this year at our hometown AWP in Kansas City!! Thursday with & and Friday at The Writers Place with & I-70 Review! Check out our amazing line-ups and come out if you can!
18/12/2023
Head over to our online exclusives page to read two of the four poems by S.J. Ghaus published in our fall issue’s special folio, “KAHANI: Writers from Pakistan and Its Diaspora”. Link in bio!
12/12/2023
“To survive sometimes means to incinerate history” —Read ‘s Prufer Prize-winning poem from issue 43.2 on our online exclusives page!
12/12/2023
“In the ambitious and lyrically rendered newest collaborative work by poet-historian Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir and translator K.B. Thors, the found poetry collection Herostories (Deep Vellum, 2022) locates the relatively unknown stories, accomplishments, and personalities of midwives in nineteenth-century Iceland.” Read Shannon Nakai’s full review on our website! Link in bio.
27/11/2023
“At the Edge of the Woods is tremendously fun to read because Bromwich is so slick with her signals that Laura may not be a reliable narrator.” Read Lisa Grgas’s reflections on Kathryn Bromwich’s AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, up on our website today! Link in bio.
27/11/2023
“Hawai’i local writers have access to a unique set of cultural images and associations, as is apparent in Otsuji’s work. But to employ them often requires one to grapple with the settler histories that rendered them into life.” Read Kalani Padilla’s full review of Derek N. Otsuji’s THE KITCHEN OF SMALL HOURS ( ) on our website! Link in bio.
27/11/2023
Check out our online exclusives page (link in bio) to read Sana Nasim’s story from issue 43.2. Stay tuned, as we’ll continue to feature writers from the KAHANI folio for the next few weeks!
22/11/2023
Three cheers and fingers crossed for our Pushcart nominees!
21/11/2023
The new issue of Pleiades has arrived! 🎉 This stunner contains a special folio, “KAHANI: Writers from Pakistan and Its Diaspora,” guest edited by Hananah Zaheer, along with tons of exciting new poetry, translations, fiction, and essays. Stay tuned as we’ll feature some of the work in this issue on our website. Purchase your copy or subscribe today! Link in bio.
27/10/2023
“The book’s very existence is an act of survival.” Read Yvonne Conza’s review of Safiya Sinclair’s stunning new memoir, up now at Pleiades! (Link to website in bio)
13/10/2023
“…Her experience of each city is heady and visceral, sensual in the literal sense of the word, governed by touch, taste, and—above all—by communion.” Read Madeleine Basil’s review of Megan Fernandes’ stunning new collection, I DO EVERYTHING I’M TOLD ( ), up on our website now!
09/10/2023
HUGE APPRECIATION for our amazing production editor, ! David works tirelessly on the interior design of PLEIADES (new issue in the works!). He’s also designed books for and many others—swipe to see some of his stunning covers. David is a talented poet, author of DREAMS I NEVER TOLD YOU & LETTERS I’VE NEVER SENT ( ) & KONIEC (END), forthcoming from . Check out his work and his virtual reading series at davidwojo.com ! Thanks for all you do, David! 💜
26/09/2023
A round of applause for our fabulous managing editor, Morgan Graham! Morgan Graham is an English PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. She studies biography and is a recipient of the Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller Fellowship and the Samuel Holt Monk Memorial Prize. You can read her work in Chicago Review of Books, Colorado Review, Split Lip Magazine, The Evansville Review, and elsewhere. Find her at morgandianegraham.wordpress.com or
26/09/2023
Get your poems ready! The Prufer Poetry Prize will be open for submissions during the month of October. To learn more about our judge and how to submit, please visit the submit page on our website—link in bio!
15/09/2023
“With translation, you have to discover the poet’s voice,” Red Pine tells Mathew Weitman in our latest online exclusive interview. Read the full interview on our online exclusives page (link in bio), and check out Red Pine’s latest collection, DANCING WITH THE DEAD: The Essential Red Pine translations, from !
01/09/2023
Pleiades is now accepting submissions for our upcoming special folio ON DISABILITY, curated by Olivia Ellisor and Kennedy Horton. Open til Oct. 15! Please visit pleiadesmag.com/submit for full guidelines. We can’t wait to read your work!
23/08/2023
Please join us in a warm and boisterous welcome to our new nonfiction editor, Caroline Crew!
Caroline Crew (Nonfiction Editor) is the author of the essay collection Other Girls to Burn (University of Georgia Press), winner of the AWP Prize for Nonfiction, as well as the poetry collections Pink Museum (Big Lucks) and the forthcoming Don’t Cut Your Own Bangs (YesYes Books, 2024). She holds a PhD from Georgia State University, as well as an MSt from the University of Oxford and an MFA from UMass-Amherst. Born and raised in Cornwall, UK, Caroline now lives in Kansas City and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Missouri. Find her online at caroline-crew.com.
11/08/2023
Welcome to our new Reviews Editor, Kylie Gellatly! We’ve reopened submissions for book reviews, and look forward to reading more. Submit today!
26/07/2023
Red eye and spotted bass, warmouth and shellcrackers and bluegill, oh my! Read Brandi White’s review of LURES (), followed by her exclusive interview with poet, editor, professor, and fisherperson Adam Vines. Link in bio!
21/06/2023
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 In this Pleiades Online Exclusive interview with Dean Faucheux, Rafael Frumkin discusses his latest novel, CONFIDENCE, writing during the pandemic, q***r and q***r-coded texts, anticapitalism, and hope. Check it out on our Online Exclusives page—link in bio!
21/06/2023
Pleiades congratulates A.J. Rodriguez, winner of the 2023 Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning story, “Aguas,” will be published in the Fall 2023 issue of Pleiades.
Of the winning story, Jonathan Escoffery writes:
“I loved the story’s rhythm and narrative voice, and appreciate how it deftly renders the gravity of ephemeral and lasting boyhood friendships, and the ways these boys grapple for a sense of control over their lives.”
Pleiades would also like to recognize the finalists for the 2023 Kinder/Crump Award:
“Follow, Follow, Follow,” by Basmah Sakrani
“Boys of My Youth,” by Brett Rachel Fox
“Lake Effect,” by Hillary Berhman
“Sweetbay,” by Kristen-Paige Madonia
Pleiades thanks all those who submitted to this year’s award; we are grateful to have had the opportunity to read your work. Link to press release in bio!
19/06/2023
"What if I could do battle with the content, confronting it page by page, word by word, and deliver poetry, art, and defiance from this text?" Read “Erasures Against Erasure” : Four Visual Poems by Lisa Huffaker. https://pleiadesmag.com/erasures-against-erasure-four-visual-poems-by-lisa-huffaker/
27/05/2023
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