Before Vandalism


At the end of my day, after huffing gasoline fumes
from sacks collected from the gas station trash,
I consider a board, fifth grade, a container of ice,
and rosary beads, in this order, unconnected

and glorious. There is more than one way into
the world, the school that's torn down
and condemned. Ingress is easy, but egress
(like that of the egrets) is elusive, the mathematics ... [ more ]

—Ander Monson, from The Available World

The 2012 Kathryn A. Morton and Mary McCarthy contests are now open for submission! Click here to submit your manuscript electronically.

Michael Jeffrey Lee's Something In My Eye is reviewed in Publishers Weekly.

Julie Marie Wade's Small Fires is reviewed in Lambda Literary.

04-05-2012
Rough Likeness

English Department Columbia College Chicago 600 S. Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60605
MFA Program Reading


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Something in My Eye
by Michael Jeffrey Lee

Michael Jeffrey Lee's stories are bizarre and smart and stilted, like dystopic fables told by a redneck Samuel Beckett. Outcasts hunker under brid ... [read more]

Rough Likeness
by Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets l ... [read more]

Small Fires
by Julie Marie Wade

This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

Mending
by Sallie Bingham

In Mending, Sallie Bingham follows the often brutal course of yearning and its disappointments with an emotional acuity both unflinching a ... [read more]

Hoodwinked
by David Hernandez

When hornets’ nests become dusky skulls half-buried in suburban grass, we try not to believe our eyes. Such inherent untrustworthiness—of recei ... [read more]

This Is Not Your City
by Caitlin Horrocks

Thirteen women confront dramas both every-day and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks’ This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as t ... [read more]

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