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Interview with Valerie Brennan, cover artist for the Colm Toibin Issue
Valerie Brennan is the artist whose painting appears on the cover of our Spring 2011 issue, guest edited by Colm Toibin. I (the web/marketing editor here at Ploughshares) asked her a few questions...
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Editor in Chief, Ladette Randolph, reads at Newtonville Books
We would like to congratulate our editor-in-chief, Ladette Randolph, on the release of her novel, A Sandhills Ballad, in paperback. To celebrate, Ladette will read from the novel on April 13th at 7 pm...
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Colm Toibin on Guest Editing Ploughshares
In this video, Colm Toibin, guest editor of the Spring 2011 issue of Ploughshares, describes what the unique guest-editing process was like for him. He mentions that the experience was like building;...
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DeWitt Henry interviewed by Night Train
Our next guest editor and co-founder of Ploughshares, DeWitt Henry, was interviewed recently by Rusty Barns for Night Train. The Summer 2011 issue will celebrate our 40th anniversary as a literary...
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Colm Toibin’s issue on Kindle
We are so excited to announce that the Spring 2011 issue of Ploughshares guest edited by Colm Toibin is now available for the Kindle! It only costs $3.99 and you can purchase it on Amazon here. The...
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Praise for co-founder and guest editor DeWitt Henry’s new memoir
DeWitt Henry, who co-founded Ploughshares, will guest edit our 40th anniversary issue – the Summer 2011 issue – set to be released on August 15th. We are proud of and excited for both his...
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The Fortieth Anniversary Post
As some of you may already know, Ploughshares was founded in 1971 by then Harvard graduate student DeWitt Henry and Peter O’Malley, co-owner of the Plough and Stars, an Irish Pub in Cambridge, MA, from...
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40th Anniversary Interview with DeWitt Henry
In honor of our 40th anniversary, the guest editor of our commemorative Summer 2011 issue, DeWitt Henry, answered a few questions about the past, present, and future of our beloved literary magazine....
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An Interview with Zacharis Award Winner Christine Sneed
We are happy to announce that Christine Sneed has won the twenty-first John C. Zacharis First Book Award for her short story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of...
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Carolyne Wright’s Mania Klepto features poems first printed in Ploughshares
First impressions last. We know this from our proverbial knowledge base and from personal experience. These impressions, however, do not last because they are static — once an effect, never more...
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A Q&A Between Former Ploughshares Contributors Ethan Rutherford and Paul Yoon
This guest post was contributed by Ethan Rutherford. —Andrew Ladd, blog editor. I recently moved, and while unpacking my books I stumbled upon an old issue of Ploughshares—Fall 2007, guest edited by...
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Writers and Their Pets: Carol Keeley
The ‘Writers and Their Pets’ series began with my own desire to celebrate my dog Sally, and since then I have also invited other writers to share with the rest of us the details of their lives with...
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Writers and Their Pets: Carolyn Creedon
The ‘Writers and Their Pets’ series began with my own desire to celebrate my dog Sally, and since then I have also invited other writers to share with the rest of us the details of their lives with...
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Orange Roses
Orange Roses Lucy Ives Ahsahta Press, September 2013 104 pages $18.00 With the proliferation of graduate programs in creative writing, the day approaches when most poetry published in the United States...
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