Kim Magowan   My husband is Catholic and more devoted than I like, though it didn’t stop Matt from marrying me. In September, our ten-year-old son Ethan will be confirmed—a strange verb. As babies, bo...

Mary Biddinger EVERYONE BRIMMED WITH ENTHUSIASM FOR THE MOON First day of first grade, Sister Camille had written on the blackboard that we were taking a trip to the moon. Most of the other kids co…

Mary Biddinger   A convent childhood can be peaceful, my godmother waxed, the same way an empty field can be a bed, a bowl of snow a meal. Beauty was an acre of frozen leaves. Desire lived und…

We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of novels, novellas, short story collections, and fiction anthologies published in 2025 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of n...

Occasionally I pine for a mild disaster such as a really loud cough of thunder

Every Quik Lube Midwest city has its own dead kid, a We Buy Gold & Coins billboard assaulting oncoming traffic, a manmade lake even the locals don’t want to talk about. The dead kid is twenty years…

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COVER ART BY ERNEST WILLIAMSON III   FICTION TEN MILES OF A RIVER BY THOMAS MIXON HAVE YOU SEEN ME? BY FRANCES ORROK DEADBOLT BY ROSS FEELER LUCKY ENOUGH BY LESLIE PIETRZYK   NONFI…

Mary Biddinger   A convent childhood can be peaceful, my godmother waxed, the same way an empty field can be a bed, a bowl of snow a meal. Beauty was an acre of frozen leaves. Desire lived und…

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in July 2025 from CLMP members.   Preverbal by Carroll Beauvais Lit Fox Books | July...