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Oct 08 2018
Kelli Jo Ford: Book of the Generations
TMR is proud to showcase the 2018 Peden Prize winner for the best story published in our 2017 volume year. Kelli Jo Ford’s “Book of the Generations” was selected by… read more
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Aug 22 2018
JM Holmes: The Legend of Lonnie Lion
JM Holmes was born in Denver and raised in Rhode Island. He won the Burnett Howe prize for fiction at Amherst College and received fellowships at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop… read more
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Jul 18 2018
“Owl” by Tyler Keevil
Tyler Keevil’s moving and beautiful essay “Owl” is about the vulnerability of all creatures in the face of both natural and human-caused calamities. It first appeared in Volume 40, number… read more
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Jul 17 2018
Andrew De Silva: Coach Schwartz
Andrew De Silva grew up in suburban Detroit and lives in Los Angeles, where he is an associate professor teaching writing and critical reasoning at the University of Southern California.… read more
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Apr 03 2018
John Fulton: “Box of Watches”
John Fulton has published three books of fiction: Retribution, which won the Southern Review Short Fiction Award; the novel More Than Enough; and The Animal Girl, which was short listed… read more
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Mar 13 2018
Becky Mandelbaum: “The First to Leave is the Winner”
Becky Mandelbaum’s pitch-perfect story “The First to Leave is the Winner” features a jilted fiancee who, in the very long run, gets her revenge. The story appeared in our winter… read more
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Feb 23 2018
Susan Neville: “Hunger”
Susan Neville’s short story “Hunger,” about a woman struggling subconsciously with loss, appeared in TMR 40.4 (Winter 2017). In a recent interview with the Missouri Review, she talks about her… read more
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Dec 13 2017
“Motherland” by Min Jin Lee
Not for the first time, we’re featuring Min Jin Lee’s story “Motherland.” The story enchanted us in 2002, and we published it in our spring issue. Min Jin was awarded… read more
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Dec 06 2017
“A Place in the World” by Alethea Black
Alethea Black’s story “A Place in the World” appeared in TMR 40:3 and will be published in her collection You’ve Been So Lucky Already, forthcoming next year. She talked about… read more
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Nov 14 2017
“How to Kill Gra’ Coleman and Live to Tell about It (Vauxhall, NJ, c. 1949)” by Kim Coleman Foote
Kim Coleman’ Foote’s short story loosely based on family history appeared in TMR 40:3 (fall 2017). In her commentary “On Coleman Hill,” she talks about mining fiction from family history.… read more