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Essays

Issue 26: Winter/Spring 2025

A Word from the Editor

November 26, 2024/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2025, Word From the Editor / Jessica Ballen
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Issue 25: Summer/Fall 2024

A Word from the Editor

June 1, 2024/in Essays, Summer-Fall 2024, Word From the Editor / Jessica Ballen
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Issue 24: Winter/Spring 2024

Word from the Editor

December 4, 2023/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2024, Word From the Editor / Michaela Emerson
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Issue 23: Summer/Fall 2023

Word from the Editor

June 7, 2023/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2023, Word From the Editor / Michaela Emerson
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Issue 22: Winter/Spring 2023

Word from the Editor

December 6, 2022/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2023, Word From the Editor / Barbara Platts
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Issue 21: Summer/Fall 2022

Word from the Editor

June 12, 2022/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2022, Word From the Editor / Barbara Platts
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Issue 20: Winter/Spring 2022

Word from the Editor

December 7, 2021/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2022 / Regan Humphrey
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Issue 19: Summer/Fall 2021

Word from the Editor

June 15, 2021/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2021, Word From the Editor / Regan Humphrey
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Issue 18: Winter/Spring 2021

Word From the Editor

December 7, 2020/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2021, Word From the Editor / Loumarie Ivette Rodriguez
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Staring At A Wall

December 6, 2020/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2021 / Andy Bodinger
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Explaining Black Lives

December 6, 2020/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2021 / Janel George
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Issue 17: Summer/Fall 2020

Word From the Editor

June 13, 2020/in Essays, Summer-Fall 2020, Word From the Editor / Loumarie I Rodriguez
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Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020

Word From the Editor

December 22, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Amanda Lopez, Issue 16: Winter/Spring 2020
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The Sign Language Alphabet, in Words

December 3, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Och Gonzalez
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Politics and Art

December 2, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2020 / Dara Herman Zierlein
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Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019

Word From the Editor

May 20, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Kori Kessler, Issue 15: Summer/Fall 2019
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On the Importance of Young Adult Fiction

May 19, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Jennifer Brody
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True Passion in Paradise

May 10, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Sumayah Chappelle
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Representation of Systemic Racism

May 6, 2019/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Arianna Hayes
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Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019

Word From the Editor

December 7, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Kori Kessler, Issue 14: Winter/Spring 2019
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Alone in Company

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Chelsea Bayouth
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Migrations

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Tatiana Garmendia
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Girl’s Dresser – 1991

November 20, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Kobina Wright
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Issue 13: Summer/Fall 2018

Experiencing Whiteness

May 29, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Akhila Kolisetty
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Economic Anxiety

May 29, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Cortney Lamar Charleston
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Souvenirs

May 29, 2018/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018

Word From the Editor

November 24, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Katelyn Keating, Issue 12: Winter/Spring 2018
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The Architect

November 22, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Chad Baker with Antonio Gutierrez
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Workplace Silence

November 21, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Nicole Cyrus
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Nostalgia

November 19, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Teresa H. Janssen
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Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017

Word From the Editor

June 16, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Katelyn Keating, Issue 11: Summer/Fall 2017
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Weekend Work Program

May 23, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Caesar Kent
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Ambivalence

May 9, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Ty Kia
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The Heavy Bag

May 8, 2017/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Amber Wong
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Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017

Word From the Editor

November 26, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Arielle Silver, Issue 10: Winter/Spring 2017
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Witness 2016, United States of America

November 24, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Deidra Edwards
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A Corrido for Macondo

November 24, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Joe Jiménez and Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
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Call to Arms

November 19, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2017 / by Captain Lisbeth Prifogle, USMC
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Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016

Word From the Editor

May 7, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Arielle Silver, Issue 9: Summer/Fall 2016
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A Little Poetry Machine Among Them: Seeing Eloise Klein Healy

May 5, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Rebecca Kuder
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Thank You for Sharing

May 2, 2016/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2016 / by Patrick O'Neil
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Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016

Word From the Editor

December 2, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2016 / by Arielle Silver, Issue 8: Winter/Spring 2016
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Race in the Brain

November 28, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2016 / by LeVan D. Hawkins
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Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015

Submission as Social Action

June 3, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
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Some Memories of Daniel G. Reinhold

June 2, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2015 / by Jenny Factor, with poetry and art by Daniel G. Reinhold
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Word From the Editor

June 1, 2015/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2015 / by David Bumpus, Issue 7: Summer/Fall 2015
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Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015

Days After

November 22, 2014/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2015 / by Danez Smith
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Word From the Editor

November 7, 2014/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2015 / by David Bumpus, Issue 6: Winter/Spring 2015
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Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014

Wizard Grits: The Secret Life of the Indie Publisher

June 12, 2014/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2014 / by Derrick C. Brown, of Write Bloody Publishing
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Word From the Editor

June 8, 2014/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2014 / by David Bumpus, Issue 5: Summer/Fall 2014
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Issue 4: Winter/Spring 2014

How to Make Your Family Proud

November 25, 2013/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2014 / by Seth Fischer
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Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013

My Hilarious Depression

May 20, 2013/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Yuvi Zalkow
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Word From the Editor

May 19, 2013/in Essays, Essays, Summer-Fall 2013 / by Lise Quintana, Issue 3: Summer/Fall 2013
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Issue 2: Winter/Spring 2013

Tribute to Diana Woods

November 28, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Bernadette Murphy
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Word From the Editor

November 26, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Lise Quintana, Issue 2: Winter/Spring 2013
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Feet in the Sand

November 23, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Winter-Spring 2013 / by Diana Woods
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Issue 1: Spring 2012

Fiction and Social Responsibility: Where Do They Intersect?

May 8, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Spring 2012 / by Naomi Benaron
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An Alumnus Reports from the Field: Occupy The Globe

May 1, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Spring 2012 / by Nancy L. Conyers
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Welcome to Lunch Ticket

May 1, 2012/in Essays, Essays, Spring 2012 / by Steve Heller, Issue 1: Spring 2012
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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Behind the Eight Ball: How to Become Homeless in the Richest Country in the World

June 13, 2025/in Blog / Valerie Nyberg
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Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Tale of the resistant apple tree

June 6, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Tahar Bekri, translated by Patrick Williamson
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Talyshi Wall Graffiti and other poems

May 30, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Ghazal
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we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

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

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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