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Fiction, poetry, essay, comics, etc., “yrs in quality literature” since 1947. www.epochliterary.com

The cover of EPOCH 73.1, an arboreal triptych by Maxim Peter Griffin
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EPOCH 2025 Pushcart nominations Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador "All of his knives," poetry, issue 72.1 Steve Himmer "The Spider's Share," essay, issue 72.1 Tom McAllister "1993, 2017, and 2022," essay, issue 72.1 Pegah Ouji "Untouchables," fiction, issue 72.2 FM Stringer "Secular Prayer at the End of Daylight Saving Time," poetry, issue 72.2 Justin Taylor "Wild Silence," fiction, issue 72.2
Greg Ames, Aldo Amparan, Kristof Anetta, Brittany Atkinson, Remy Barnes, Danny Cassidy, Ariel Courage, Laine Derr, Renesha Dhanraj, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Elisa Gabbert, Lily Jarman-Reisch, Christopher Kennedy, Erin Malone, Cary Marcous, Michael Martin, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Pegah Ouji, Weijia Pan, Micah Perks, David Pjecha, Bryan Price, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Bee Sacks, Gabriel Schicchi, Greg Sendi, Brandon Shimoda, Murzban F. Shroff, Ed Skoog, Lisa Russ Spaar, FM Stringer, Justin Taylor, Emma Cairns Watson, Korey Williams.
EPOCH Volume 72, Number 2. Cover painting of kids riding the subway.
Tom McAllister
Etgar Keret, balancing books on his head. Photo by Lielle Sand
poet Elaine Liu
FICTION 4 Rare & Precious Antiques by Sarah Kokernot 20 The Women on the Night Shift by Frank X. Christmas 33 My Wife Is the Dead Wife by Nick Mandernach 42 Erin, the Local Version by Edmundo Paz Soldán translated from the Spanish by Jenna Tang 70 Intimate Crimes; Fluffy, Flurby, or Flobo; Putting Off; Start at the Start; Leitmotif?; and Frogs Made Sense by Shane Kowalski 80 The Irritant by Mike Meginnis 93 Leaving Shandong by Olivia Cheng 118 English Major by Josh Russell 122 Crater by Tracy Hill 139 The Writers Room by Adam O'Fallon Price 166 The Hallway by Etgar Keret translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen 184 Commission Piece by Juan Martinez ESSAYS 26 54 157 170 The Spider's Share by Steve Himmer Turkentaube by Valer Popa 106 1993, 2017, and 2022 by Tom McAllister Crisis Line by Olivia Fantini Under Our Own Power by Denali DeGraf
Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador Emma Bolden Olivia Cheng Frank X. Christmas Cristina Correa Sarah Davis Denali DeGraf Hollie Dugas Olivia Fantini Rebecca Morgan Frank Richard Gallagher Mary Gilliland Tracy Hill D.T. Holt Jiawei (translated by Liang Yujing) Keemo Etgar Keret (translated by Jessica Cohen) Partick Kindig Sarah Kokernot Dana Koster Shane Kowalski Elaine Liu Nick Mandernach Danilo Marin Juan Martinez Tom McAllister Mike Meginnis Edmundo Paz-Soldan (translated by Jenna Tang) Hai-Dang Phan Lizzy Ke Polishan Valer Popa Adam O’Fallon Price Josh Russell Sophia Schlesinger Selena Spier Claire Wahmanholm
Our 2024 Pushcart nominees are: Catherine Nichols, “The Middle Ages,” essay, issue 71.1 
Zahid Rafiq, “In Small Boxes,” fiction, issue 71.1 
Chanda Feldman, “As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History,” poetry, issue 71.1 
Ed Skoog, “Sestina: Last Days,” poetry, issue 71.1 
Rosalind Margulies, “The Supervillain,” fiction, issue 71.2 
Vivek Sharma, “Shree Ganeshaya Namah,” poetry, issue 71.2
EPOCH 71.2, featuring T. Abeyta, Amir Ahmadi Arian, MS Baker, Bruce Bond, Rosa Alice Branco, Alyx Chandler, Heather Christle, Lisa Compo, Michael Day, Stephen Dixon, Lara Egger, Emily Ellis, Ge Fang, Jordan Hamel, Lamar Herrin, Alex Higley, Alexis Levitin, Rebecca Lilly, Lu Min, Court Ludwick, Rosalind Margulies, Ioanna Mavrou, Mohammad Mokhtari, Tim Molloy, Susan Leslie Moore, Sandra Newman, Nome Emeka Patrick, Emily Rosko, Amy Rowland, Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Vivek Sharma, Jennifer Sutherland, Daniel Uncapher, KP Vogell, Jonathan Wong-Hayden, and Sijing Yang.
BLOCKS WORLD, by Emma Catherine Perry, from Great Place Books
The EPOCH staff posed behind their AWP table
Map of AWP 2024, showing the EPOCH table, T1736
128 LIT issue 1
Print and PDF editions of EPOCH 71.1, available now.
EPOCH 71.1
Issue 71.1 of EPOCH, with a cover painting by Émilie Gleason, entitled lazy dork working, depicting a mustachioed fellow, isolated by the pandemic, smoking a cigarette while watching television with his dog
The bird of thanks, appreciating your submission
The cover of EPOCH 71.1, featuring an Emilie Gleason drawing of a man smoking while watching television
Two identical chairs by the side of the road, one marked FREE, one not
The cover of EPOCH issue 70.2, with collage by Lou Beach, featuring a desert scene made from newspapers
The cover of EPOCH 70:2, by Lou Beach, a collage depicting a desert scene