Black Hole Kitchen Blues Zachariah Claypole White Laureate of The Fifth Corner Dark Fiction Prize Fall 20262026 Pushcart Prize Nominee Submitted For The 2027 Best American Short Stories © Serpil Odaba...

AWARDS & RECOGNITION The Fifth Corner is proud to put forward select work from our pages for recognition by major literary awards and anthologies. Pushcart Prize Nominations 2026 LookAlan Sincic Hua H...

FICTION PRIZE FALL 2026 Laureate BLACK HOLE KITCHEN BLUES by Zachariah Claypole White Zachariah Claypole White is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and...

The Letter Writing Issue (Correspondence, Missives, Parcels & Post) Dear Reader, We hope you enjoy our love letter to letter writing! The magazine is 6" x 9" and features 156 (!) pages of original art...

A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.

A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.

"the angel spends / his afternoons, ears pressed to the dirt, cataloging their theologies."

The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.

ALT: a man in a blue and white jacket is surrounded by women

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

ALT: a stuffed animal in a pilot 's uniform is sitting in a dark room with a cardboard head .

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