Contributors: Mark Abdon, Christine Barkley, Havilah Barnett, Ellie Black, Daniel Brennan, Rachel Chapman, Amanda Chiado, Willy Conley, Amy DeBellis, Kellie Diodato, Jean-Marc Duplantier, Joshua Effiong, Michael Emerald, Jennie Evenson, Casey Fisher, Ariel Francisco, Dane Gebauer, Alex Gullis, Mary Gunning, Caitlin Gunthorp, Cover Art Guy, K Janeschek, Tracey Knapp, Funfere Koroye, Katrina Leggett, Jim Marino, Lucy McBee, Patrick Meeds, Skyler Melnick, Devin Murphy, Talor North, Zack Osborn, Lexi Pandell, Aimee Parkison, Ana Prundaru, Jennifer Pullen, Craig Reinbold, Paul Riker, Mack Rogers, Amanda Scott, Shyla Shehan, Sue William Silverman, Garrett Stack, Ivan Suazo, Rachel Sussman, Nora Thomas, William Varner, Irene Villasenor, Patrick Wilcox, Nicholas Wong, Yance Wyatt

Contributors: Sonja Vitow, Sara Backler, Erin Bealmear, Bea Bolongaita, Annah Browning, Chris L. Butler, James Davis, Samantha Edmonds, E. Laura Goldberg, Henry Goldkamp, Justin Groppuso-Cook, Tom Kelly, Gordon Kippola, Allie Mariano, Katie Moritz, Dante Novario, Charlie Peck, Elaina Perpelitt, Adrianna Sanchez-Lopez, David Sapp, Peter Schlachte, Charles Spano, Huw Steer, Katherine Vondy, Michael Ward

Contributors: Audrey Adams, Jane Ayres, Brenda Salinas Baker, Anthony Bartley, Daisy Bassen, Margarita Brum, L.M. Cole, Cole Depuy, Jacqueline Doyle, Dolly Drori, Kristin Emanuel, Katie Embser, Katherine Espano, Steve Fellner, Renee Flory, Annalise Gallagher, Stephanie Ginese, Emily O. Gravett, Amy Guidry, Siew David Hii, Caleb Hydrick, Phil Keeling, Mickie Kennedy, Erin Kirsh, Rie Kitagawa, Kalia Lancaster, Evander Lang, Sonya Lara, Chissy Martin, Suzanne Martin, Chital Mehta, Adia Muhammad, Alena Muir, Marlene Olin, Aimee Pogson, Adam Poor, Bek Primrose, Jeremy Radin, Jackie Sabbagh, Leah Schnurr, Karen Schubert, Veronica Silva, Sara Solber, Lindsay Sproul, Brendan Stephens, Alyssandra Tobin, Nikki Ummel, Lavanya Vasudevan, Amber Day Wild, Ele Willoughby, Lena Zycinsky

Contributors: Mya Alexice, Sam Baker, John Blair, NJ Bonham, Noor Brody, Kate Bucca, Sher Ting Chim, Sean Cho A, Robert Evory, Jeffrey Feingold, Elizabeth Feng, Olivier Fitzgerald, Raymond Fleishmann, Cassia Hameline, Hailey Rose Hanks, Marisa Lainson, Mark Magnus, Nicholas Mangigian, Katie McMorris, Erin Miller, Rooja Mohassessy, Sara Moore Wagner, Samuel Prestridge, Jason Sepac, Benjamin Soileau, JR Taylor, Jeff Whitney, Kristin Wong, Lucy Zhang, Jane Zwart

Contributors: Andres Arauz, Abe Becker, Neil Berkowitz, Will Berry, Katie Berta, Christine H. Chen, Josiah Ellner, Katie Erbs, Kerry James Evans, Willam Fargason, Emily Franklin, Santiago Galeas, Jessica Hammack, Pam Hassler, Jessica Hertz, Kristie Robin Johnson, Kitt Keller, Candice Kelsey, Jared Lemus, Ariel Machell, Lacy Arnett Mayberry, Steven W. McCarty, Mac McClaran, Ben McCormick, Julia McDaniel, Mark Milazzo, Larry Narron, Natalia Olhova, Benjamin Page, Josh Parish, Claire Scott, Elena Selk, Marguerite Sheffer, Tyler Sones, Meghan Sterling, Eric Tran, Adam Weeks, Tana Jean Welch

Contributors: Luke Agada, Khem K. Aryal, Brittney Boyd Bullock, Matthew Burnside, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Catharina Coenen, Alyssa Froehling, Fatima Jafar, Di Jayawickrema, Christen Noel Kauffman, Cody Kucker, Catherine Kyle, Ciara LeRoy, Eliot Li, Annell López, Alejandro Lucero, Evan Joseph Massey, Alysse Kathleen McCanna, Fares Micue, Carl E. Moore, Kip Omolade, Fahamu Pecou, Lizzy Petersen, A. Prevett, Khalisa Rae, Todd Robison, Leona Sevick, Liz Shulman, Jayne Sosland, Daren Todd, Seth Brady Tucker, Erin Vachon, Lavanya Vasudevan, Adrian Octavius Walker, Hannah V. Warren, Michael Wilson, James Zhenghui Zhu.

Contributors: Sahana Ahmed, Faiza Anum, Christopher Seiji Berardino, Amanda Bloom, Christiana Castillo, Sara Biggs & Michael Chaney, Yuan Changming, Steven Espada Dawson, Nate Duke, Austin Eichelberger, Nicola Geddes, Banah Ghadbanah, Mirri Glasson-Darling, Rayji de Guia, Christine E. Hamm, Luther Hampton, Dennis Hinrichsen, Rochelle Hurt, Justin Jannise, Mike Jenkins, Alice Kaltman, Cory Liang, Tracey Lien, Whitney Lorenze, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Jose Luis Pablo, Miriam Navarro Prieto, Taiyo Okamoto, Kasey Peters, Fraser Radford, John Saad, Jane Satterfield, Taylor Schaefer, Chang Shih Yen, Ojo Taiye, Elizabeth Theriot, zach de venecia, Abigail Wotton, Bessie F. Zaldívar

Contributors: Threa Almontaser, Mae Aur, Sarah Bates, Anthony Borruso, Jeff Carter, Servando CuMora, Moisés Delgado, Courtney Fowler, Asha Futterman, Mag Gabbert, Tex Gresham, Rory Hamovit, Ashley Hand, Jessica Hudson, Miah Jeffra, Corrine Jones, Giaae Kwon, Kate Lucas, Matt Muilenburg, Cindy Ostuni, San Pham, Cyndie Randall, Stephanie Rogers, Nick Schleicher, Kirk Schlueter, Cameron Shenassa, Maya Strauss, Melissa Studdard, DeShara Suggs-Joe, Danielle Williams, Christopher Wong, Lizabeth Yandel, Yurina Yoshikawa

Contributors: Aldo Amparán, Megan J. Arlett, Maria Isabelle Carlos, Devin, Xuebing Du, Melissa Dunn, Paige Ellens, Jen Fawkes, Paulette K. Fire, Meg E. Griffitts, Sarah Hamill, Audrey R. Hollis, Taiyaba Husain, Naoko Ito, Katerina Ivanov, Jasmine Khaliq, Jennifer Lynn Krohn, Lance Larsen, David Lassell, Michael Marberry, Addie Palin, Edgar Serrano, Caroline Shea, Aurora Lee Shimshak, Tracy Treadwell, Theodora Ziolkowski

Contributors: Aliza Ali Khan, Josette Akresh-Gonzales, baddieani, Rebecca Bernard, Hannah Bonner, Mark Jay Brewin Jr., Caroline Crew, Sarah Destin, E.L. Diamond, Allison Field Bell, Amy Guidry, Jessica Hudson, Chris Ketchum, Alyse Knorr, Anita Olivia Koester, M.E. Kopp, Naira Kuzmich, Carol Matos, Jake Maynard, Karyna McGlynn, Meg McManama, Mindy Misener, Dev Murphy, Jackquelyn Rochelle Nasti, Johnathan Payne, Macey Phillips, Harley Phleger, Samuel Piccone, Isaac Pressnell, Casey Gentry Quinn, Till Rabus, Suzanne Manizza Roszak, Julia Salem, Kelly R. Samuels, Daniel Schonning, Caroline Shea, Jessica Lynn Suchon, L.J. Sysko, Kailey Tedsco, Natalie Louise Tombasco, Mark Wagenaar, Anna Wolfe, and Jean Wolff

Contributors: Sarah Alaica, Nicole Baute, Christina Beasley, Emily Blair, Dmitry Blizniuk, Ace Boggess, Michael Chin, Jackie Connelly, Oleg Dou, Chris Drangle, Lara Egger, Nikki Einsig, Janet Frischberg, Jeannine Hall Gailey, D.G. Geis, Zoe Hawk, John Humphries, Alyssa Jewell, Laurie Kolp, Danielle Kotrla, Steve Lambert, Doron Langberg, Tram Le, Lino Lago, Lawrence Matthews III, Meghan McClure, Kathleen McNamara, Kathryn Merwin, Steve Mueske, Jennifer Murvin, Michelle Orabona, Anne Price, Alyssa Quinn, Fraser Radford, Melanie Ritzenthaler, Michael Schmeltzer, Erin Slaughter, Pascha Sotolongo, Natalie Tombasco, Lauren Westerfield, Rain Wright

Poetry: Casey Patrick, Karyna McGlynn, Abigail Chabitnoy, Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Marlin M. Jenkins, Ruth Williams, Jenny Molberg, Margaret Cipriano, Alicia Marie Brandewie, Travis Truax, J. Stephen Rhodes, Ceridwen Hall, Ting Gou, E. Kristin Anderson. John Sibley Williams, Rebekah Denison Hewitt, Rebecca Hazelton

Fiction: Lela Tredwell, Adam Byko, Daisy Hernandez, Lawrence Lenhart, Marina Petrova, Samantha Edmonds, Sheldon Costa

Creative Nonfiction: Jaimie Eubanks, Maya Jewell Zeller, Stephanie Anderson, Lee Hutner, Jacob Little

Visual Art: Stev’nn Hall, Jordie Oetken, Max Gomez Canle, Birdcap, Andrea Morales, Leanna Hicks, Faig Ahmed

Poetry: Caylin Capra-Thomas, Jennifer Richter, Stephen Cramer, Siarra Freeman, Sarah Cedeño, Xandria Phillips, Owen McLeod, David Kirby, Stephanie Rogers, Natalie Homer, Amorak Huey, Raye Hendrix, Lauren Bolton, Amanda Rachelle Warren, Sierra Golden, Elizabeth Onusko, Kate Asche, Jacob Lindberg, Marco Yan, Sara Lupita Olivares, SM Stubbs, Christine Hamm, and Sonia Greenfield.

Fiction: Nancy Au, Jean Burnet, Louise Marburg, Sam Martone, Ann Stewart McBee, and Jenn Powers

Creative Nonfiction: Amber Taliancich Allen, Claire Polders, Brian Oliu, Beth Peterson, Beth Roddy, Kathryn M. Barber, and Zach Sheneman

Visual Art: Angelika Arendt, Loren Britton, Emily Mae Smith, Clare Gatto, Lisa Sanditz, Anna Werwhein, Camilo Restrepo, Sara Faux, Erin Anfinson, Lani Asuncion, Laura Kraay, and Erica McCarrens

Issue 37.1 includes the winners of the 2016 Pinch Literary Awards. John McCarthy’s “Hymn” won the Pinch Literary Poetry Contest (judge: Alex Lemon), Michael Alessi’s “Goshen Pass” won the Pinch Literary Fiction Contest (judge: Leslie Pietrzyk), and Amy J.E. MacKenzie’s “Shakedown” won the Pinch Literary Creative Nonfiction contest (judge: Nicole Hardy). 

Poetry: Christian Anton Gerard, Amy Rosenberg, Alexa Doran, Laura Brun, Rachel Cruea, Matt Morgan, Bryce Berkowitz, Lana Austin, Julia Heney, Sayuri Ayers, Nathanael Tagg, Rachel Edelman, Zackary Medlin, Tara Ballard, Gaylord Brewer, Matthew Brady Klitsch, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, Jessica Morey-Collins, Rachel Marie Patterson, Clare Paniccia, Benjamin Zellmer Bellas, Jermaine Thompson, and Adam Houle

Fiction: Eric Lloyd Blix, Cynthia Robinson, Charles Fairchild, Andrew Gretes, and Katie Knoll

Creative Nonfiction: John A. McDermott, Jacqueline Kolosov, Rachel Toliver, Jan Shoemaker, Olivia Dunnn, Paul Vega, Jacqueline Doyle, Jill Talbot & Justin Lawrence Daughtery, Tracy Haack, Jessi Lewis, and Angela Morales

Visual Art: Alex Paulus, Ryan Rasmussen, Jane Callister, Kevin Michael Klipfel, Tracey Harris, Michael Lambert, Linda Lee Nichols, Sharyn O'Mara, Ivan de Monbrison, Kelly Yarbrough, Ashley Hudson, and Linn Meyers

Issue 36.1 includes the winners of the 2015 Pinch Literary Awards. Nina Yun's "The Great Middle" won the Pinch Literary Nonfiction Contest (judged by Lia Purpura); Jennifer Givhan's poem, "Why Birds?" won the Pinch Poetry Contest (judged by Ada Limón); and Molly Reid's "Happy You're Here" won the Pinch Literary Fiction contest (judged by David James Poissant).

PoetryErin Adair-Hodges, Aileen Bassis, Emma Bolden, Ashley Chambers,  Karen Craigo, Kwame Dawes, Matthew Henriksen, Erin Hoover, Cindy E. King, EJ Levy, Laurin Becker Macios, Emily Mohn-Slate, Cindy Hunter Morgan, Nancy Carol Moody, Brian Simoneau, Lindsay Tigue, John Walser, PJ Williams

FictionCharles Booth, Ayşe Papatya Bucak, K.L. Cook, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Nickalus Rupert, Kami Westhoff

NonfictionMarcia Aldrich, BJ Hollars, Devin Latham, Lee Martin, Robin McCarthy, Ander Monson, Alexis Paige, Bonnie J. Rough, Cait Weiss

ArtKatrina Andry, Taylor Baldwin, Luke Ball, Jenny Blumenfield, Dara Engler, Motoko Kamada, Joseph Kameen, Lauren Rose Kinney & Patrick Vincent, Vitus Shell, Bonnie Stipe

The Pinch Literary Journal proudly presents its 35th anniversary issue - a sleek, sophisticated, and distinct tribute to the literary arts. 

Issue 35.1 includes the winners of the the 2014 Pinch Literary Awards. Sarah Viren's essay "My Murderer's Futon" won the Pinch Literary Nonfiction Contest (as judged by Lee Martin); Mark Wagennar's poem, "Shake & Bake Blues (Midwest Blues)" which won the Pinch Poetry Contest (as judged by Adam Clay); and Emily Ruth Verona, who won the Pinch Literary Fiction contest with her short story, "Care."

In Issue 34.2 we’ve got a lineup of fiction from Gretchen VanWormer, Jessica Newman, Vera Kurian, Alisha Karabinus, Kim Drew Wright, Mike Meginnis and Gabriel Houck.

Creative nonfiction in this issue comes from Sarah Vallance, Matthew Vollmer, Emily Rich, Angela Woodward, Sarah M. Wells and Jamie Lyn Smith.

In Issue 34.1 we’ve got a lineup of fiction from Mary-Kim Arnold, Claire Harlan Orsi, Christine Friedlander, K vish, Anne Doten and Nick Kocz.

Creative nonfiction in this issue comes from Alicia Catt, Rebecca Huntman, Jill Talbot, Kathleen Blackburn and Melissa Ferrone.

We’ve got poetry for you from John McCarthy, Mark Wagenaar, Carleen Tibbetts, Eric Anderson, Kat Finch, Shivani Mehta, Rick Bursky, Molly Beckwith, Abraham Smith, Lena Moses-Schmitt, Lucy Biederman, Mikko Harvey, Ryan Bollenbach, Catherine Bresner, Chloe Anne Campbell, Kim Stoll, Opal C. McCarthy, Leia Darwish, Suzi F. Garcia, Julie Henson, Alan Michael Parker, Emily Bludworth De Barrios, Colleen Barry, Anders Carlson-Wee, Charlie Clark, Priya Keefe, Lauren Clark, Paul Beilstein, Tarfia Faizullah, Katie Willingham and Carrie Green.

In Issue 33.2, we’ve got fiction from Joseph Rein, Jaclyn Dwyer, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Amanda Leahy, David James Poissant and Tessa Mellas.

We’ve got creative nonfiction from Marcia Aldrich, Kristen Radtke, Steve Adams, Sonya Huber and Aubrey Hirsch.

Poetry contributors for this issue are Allison Seay, Sharon Wang, Jen Edwards, Avni Vyas & Anne Barngrover, Cindy Beebe, James Tadd Adcox, JD Scott, Doug Fuller, C Dylan Bassett, Kelly Forsythe, Felicia Zamora, Sandra Meek, Erin Dorney, Kathleen Rooney & Elisa Gabbert, Nathan Parker, Janet Bowdan, Anne Champion, Emily Sketch Haines, Lee Sharkey, Norman Dubie, Kim Lozano, Gordon Osing, Chris Emslie,  Wendy Xu, Carl Phillips and Kwame Dawes.

In Issue 33.1, we’ve got an interview with Randall Kenan, author of Only The Dead Know Chapel Hill, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, and A Visitation of Spirits, among others.

Our fiction offerings include work by Darren Morris, D.J. Thielke, Lindsey Drager, Dylan Brie Ducey, and Devin Murphy.

We’ve also got creative nonfiction from Marilyn Abildskov, Andrew Johnson, Rachel Riederer, Joey Franklin, and Jillian Weiss.

This issue, we’ve got an interview on story craft and character development with the always spectacular Bobbie Ann Mason. We’re also serving up incredible poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction from Roxane Gay, Michael Croley, Nicholas Wong, Christine Stewart, Meg Cowen, Ray McManus, Raymond Fleischmann, Christopher Kempf, Eireann Lorsung, David Roderick, Daniel Browne, William Lusk Coppage, Jax Peters Lowell, Derek Palacio, Susan Gubernat, John Vanderslice, Allison Campbell, Maria Rapoport, Traci Brimhall, Charlotte Boulay, James Crizer, Bryce Emley, Mark Jay Brewin, Jr., Helen Phillips, Brad Henderson, Harold Whit Williams, Ira Sukrungruang, Elizabeth O’Brien, Anthony Opal, Tim Hayes, Sydney Lea, and Tory Adkisson. We’re also pleased to bring you the winning entries from the University of New Orleans Creative Contest, as judged by the editorial staff of The Pinch, including pieces by Kiki Whang, Jill Frischhertz, and Anne Royan.

Featuring interviews with Marge Piercy and Richard Tillinghast. Fiction and poetry by our wonderful Literary Award winners: Stu Dearnley, Judith Edelman, Claudine R. Moreau and John Sibley Williams. We also have incredible poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction from Steve Adams, Will Boast, Gaylord Brewer, John F. Buckley and Martin Ott, Josh Dorman, Chris Fink, Mary Flanagan, Amy Fraser, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Carrie Green, Todd Hearon, Darren Jackson, Jaybo, Jason M. Jones, Jason Koo, Anna Leahy, Scott Nadelson, Alison Pelegrin, Jennifer Perrine, Alison Prine, Shelley Puhak, Jennifer Richter, Alex Roulette, Laurie Sewall, Lee Sharkey, and Matthew Vollmer.

Featuring an interview with Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin.

Featuring an interview with Robert Root.  

Featuring an interview with Lee Sharkey. 

Featuring interviews with James Brasfield and Michael Knight. 

Featuring an interview with Percival Everett.