Genre Archive

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 21: Summer/Fall 2022

Ghost Birds

June 4, 2022/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2022 / Karin Hedetniemi

Cataclysms

December 3, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2022 / Julia F. Green

Pleiku

December 2, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2022 / H'Abigail Mlo

Regarding the Highchair You’re Selling on Facebook

May 20, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2021 / Liz Breen

Year, Make, Model

May 19, 2021/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2021 / Laura Seldner

Imagine Yourself a Strained Body Breaking to Recover

December 7, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Matt Colangelo

Xinjiang—A Beautiful Place

December 6, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Daien Guo

Surrogate Memory

December 5, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Yasmine Eve Lucas

White Voice (Un)Masked

December 4, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Bill Marsh

Those You Neglect

December 2, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2021 / Randy William Santiago

On Twerking and Writing

June 13, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Rois M. Beal

Ambiguity

June 12, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Storey Clayton

Monstera Deliciosa Variegata: Grief and the Search for a Rare Houseplant

June 11, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Sarah Hoenicke

A Life in Six Thousand, Five Hundred and Forty Songs

June 10, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Pat Hulsebosch

42,844

June 9, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Megan Lea

Returning to My Father’s Kitchen

June 8, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Monica Macansantos

The Story of the Family Samovar

June 7, 2020/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2020 / Nadja Maril

Decay

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Claire Boyer

All of Us Are in Pieces

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Nhung An

Picasso This and That

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Rey Armenteros

What I Know to Be True

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdis Marzooghian

The Many Uses of Safety Pins

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Anu Kandikuppa

Jedi Mind Tricks of an Anxious Girl

December 4, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Autumn Shah

The Eastern Spadefoot

November 25, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Robin Gow

To a Starving Body

November 25, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2020 / Shreya Vikram

Hickeys, Lexapro, and Eggo Waffles: On Being Thirteen

May 30, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Courtney Cook

Lessons in Language

May 26, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Kristen Gaerlan

She’s Not There

May 25, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Ona Gritz

Fear of Prayer: An Atheist’s Lament

May 23, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Melissa Knox

Indelible Laughter

May 20, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Anita Levin

Saturn’s Return

May 19, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Amelia Morand

Letters from My Childhood

May 18, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Luz Pinilla

Mack Truck

May 17, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Artemis Savory

Shifting Gear

May 15, 2019/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Mikhal Weiner

Sex Matters

November 23, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Mark Hall

Counting the Beats

November 22, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Jalina Mhyana

Never

November 20, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade

Reflections

November 20, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Marlene Olin

Hear and Release

November 19, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Wendy Palmer

Crabbing

November 18, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Helen Park

Area of Concern

November 17, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Colleen Rothman

The Right of Way

November 16, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Vonetta Young

Dope

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Kristie Robin Johnson

LIGO

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by DJ Lee

Leaving Cleveland

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Ann Arthur-Andrew

Encounters with Snakes

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Emily Withnall

Losing Faith

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by MJ Lemire

You Memorize The Way Your Hand Lets Go

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Matthew Mitchell

Notes to Self

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Elliot Gavin Keenan

A Life in a Body (With Breasts)

May 29, 2018/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Leigh Camacho Rourks

Waiting Room

November 25, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Jane Andrews

Abiding in the Realm of Calmness

November 24, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Wendy Bone

My Father, the Trickster

November 23, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Brynn Downing

Paper Shackles

November 21, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Sean Enfield

Lagrimitas

November 20, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi

We Race American

November 19, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Brian Oliu

How to Disappear

November 18, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Sarah Shotland

Testimony

November 12, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Leah Silverman

Out of Houston

May 22, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Cathleen Calbert

Mapping Coordinates of Poor, Queer, and Feminine in the High Desert Air

May 21, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Sossity Chiricuzio

The Day We Buried My Father

May 20, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Guy Choate

Big Ball of String Theory

May 19, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Linnea Wortham Harper

Matches

May 17, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Kristine Langley Mahler

If Memory

May 16, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Carol D. Marsh

Imposter

May 15, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Bree A. Rolfe

Flash Point

May 14, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Lauren Sarazen

Faith Is What You Have: Reading Photographs with Flannery O’Connor

May 13, 2017/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Engram Wilkinson

Progress Notes

November 25, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Jennifer Anderson

Every Man a Fortress

November 24, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Jason Arment

Somebody. Still.

November 22, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Alexandra Dane

Chassis

November 21, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by T. Lucas Earle

Community

November 20, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Bernard Grant

Hollow

November 18, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Carmella de los Angeles Guiol

Nipple Gazing

November 18, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by L.L. Madrid

Falling—A Mothering (Or, a Tale of Postpartum Depression)

November 17, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Courtney E. Morgan

When a Neighbor Dies

November 14, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Milena Nigam

Are We There Yet?

November 12, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Amber Wong

Elvis Has Left the Building

May 7, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Eric Day

Down in the River to Pray

May 6, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Lois Ruskai Melina

The Half-Buttoned Effect

May 5, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Saeide Mirzaei

Nothing Beats a Beergut Breakfast

May 4, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Genevieve Morck

Home is Home

May 3, 2016/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Suzanne Ushie

A Few More Miles

December 6, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Meghan Florian

Party of One

December 5, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Tracy Harris

Counter Intuitive

December 4, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Walker Harrison

A Box of Chocolates in China

December 3, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Esther Whitman Johnson

Preparing a Place

December 2, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Robert Knox

I’ve Never Touched One

December 1, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Anne McGrath

Taking the Edge Off

November 10, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by K.C. Pedersen

Boiler Rat

November 9, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Robert Robinson

What Goes Around

October 20, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Joyce Tomlinson

Panic at Twenty-four Frames Per Second

May 30, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Jim Brega

The Housekeeper’s Daughter

May 29, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by A. R. Castellanos

Negative Space

May 28, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Ted Chiles

Some Lines of Feeling

May 27, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Karyl Anne Geary

A Map of Jerusalem

May 26, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Ellen Goldstein

The Persistence of Wolves

May 25, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Fabienne Josaphat

Dispatch from Liberty Ave.

May 24, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Timothy Maddocks

Classy

May 23, 2015/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Jim Ross

Weird Gelatinous Things

November 26, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Migueltzinta Solis

The Water Understands

November 25, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Ean Bevel

Intention

November 24, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Shauna Jones

Wander, Lost

November 23, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Antonia Malchik

Wet Glass Plates

November 22, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Janna Marlies Maron

All Hallow’s Evening

November 21, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Darlene Pagán

First Season, Shotgun

May 30, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Jason Arment

Nuclear Fallout

May 29, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Luanne Castle

Me and Jerry

May 28, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Lisbeth Davidow

I Once Knit My Own

May 27, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Kyle Laurita-Bonometti

Beyond the Pale

May 26, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Florentina Staigers

The Blue Blanket

May 25, 2014/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Leslie Tucker

Three Hots and a Cot

November 28, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Ramona DeFelice Long

Kaleidoscope Mind

November 27, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Erin Corriveau

End of the Line

November 26, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Rachel Hall

The Call

November 22, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Kelly Roberts

The Viewing

May 25, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Mary Zelinka

CancerLand

May 24, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Marissa Cohen

The Beetle and the Wind

May 23, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Melba Major

Nature Lessons

May 22, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske

Submission

May 21, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Mamie Potter

Rebecca, First Semester Freshman Year

May 20, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Cliffton Price

Conversations I Can’t Talk About

May 18, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Lisa Romeo

Transgressions

May 18, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Heidi Sampson

Nature Lessons

May 22, 2013/in CNF, CNF, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske

The Memoirist

November 28, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Amy Yelin

Green Vase

November 27, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Danusha Goska

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Woman

November 26, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Rochelle Spencer

Tales of Corruption

November 24, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Pablo Piñero Stillmann

Freight

November 23, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Tara Walker

Wince: George and Trayvon

May 26, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Spring 2012 / by Andy Johnson

Sucker

May 26, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Spring 2012 / by Mark Brazaitis

Anything but Oatmeal

May 8, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Spring 2012 / by Sion Dayson

Alien

May 8, 2012/in CNF, CNF, Spring 2012 / by John Calderazzo

A Lesson in Magic from the Maine Coast

September 30, 2022/in Blog / Meghan McGuire

Am I a Writer?

September 16, 2022/in Blog / Sanaz Tamjidi

What Happened

August 19, 2022/in Blog / Amanda Woodard

The Worth of a Billionaire’s Words

September 23, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Kirby Chen Mages

Abyssinia

August 26, 2022/in Midnight Snack / JP Goggin

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in A Transfer, Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy

Guinea Pigs

September 26, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / K.A. Polzin

The Paradox of Bad

August 22, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Bella Santos

The Cannibal Replies to Your Text

August 15, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche / Aimee Lowenstern

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk

A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail

Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran

Genre Archive

Issue 21: Summer/Fall 2022

Issue 20: Winter/Spring 2022

Issue 19: Summer/Fall 2021

Issue 18: Winter/Spring 2021

Issue 17: Summer/Fall 2020

Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019

Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

Issue 2: Winter/Spring 2013