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Searching for your last spring read? Look no further than our Spring 2026 issue. Start reading: https://pshares.org/product/spring-2026/
Too hot to be outside? Stay in and relax with our Spring 2026 issue, edited by Annie Finch. Available now: https://pshares.org/product/spring-2026/
Thinking about submitting to our reading period? Check out the Spring issue for inspiration! Pick up your copy and see our reading period guidelines: https://pshares.org/
"I wasn’t yet ten and wanted something sweet / when what piece of childhood I had was crushed."
Read Sapphire's poem, "Ballad of Henrietta King," in the Spring 2026 issue of Ploughshares: https://pshares.org/issue-article/ballad-of-henrietta-king/
"I had a bed. I was a man who slept / without his shoes, dreaming of one wife"
Read Patricia Smith's poem, "Sophiatown Symphony," in the Spring 2026 issue of Ploughshares: https://pshares.org/issue-article/sophiatown-symphony/
Our regular reading period is now open! Send us your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and longform poetry and prose between June 1 and November 15 at 5:00 pm EST for the chance to be published in a future issue of Ploughshares. Read the guidelines and submit: https://pshares.org/submit/submit-writing/
With cover art by Ana Seggiaro and poems and stories by 40+ writers, our Spring 2026 issue is sure to inspire your creative side. 🎨✍️💃 Get your copy and start creating: https://pshares.org/product/spring-2026/
PS pitches are now open! PS presents contemporary dialogues between today’s writers and Ploughshares‘ archive.
We invite you to consider how your practice converses, converges, and complicates work in our past issues. See the full guidelines: https://pshares.org/about-ps/
Join us on Friday, June 26, at 6 pm EDT for a Zoom reading and celebration of LGBTQIA+ love poems published in Ploughshares, featuring Kelli Russell Agodon, Chen Chen, Eileen Myles, Jacques J. Rancourt, Jaz Sufi, and Mark Wunderlich! 🌈
Reserve your spot: https://bit.ly/4uyhpkQ
Ploughshares is excited to announce our Summer 2027 Guest Editor, Carmen Maria Machado! In this interview, Machado discusses preserving queer archives and the relationships between speculative writing, research, and truth.
Watch the interview and read the transcript: https://bit.ly/4v1m8w6
