TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issue 29 – Fall 2023

Home

  • Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief
    “Buried Treasure”

Interview

  • Pam Ruatto (Issue 1, Fall 2009)
    “My Husband Hates How We Were”

Interview

  • UNCA Professor and Author Lori Horvitz with Special Features Editor Janet Moore
    “Ready for Rocky Roads”

Nonfiction

  • Debbie DeWall
    “The Beat Goes On”
  • Ginny Callaway
    “Severe Weather and Tornadoes Kill 30 People, Plus 1”
  • Anne-Marie Dany
    “The Covid Manager”
  • H.W. Florayn
    “Grounds”

Fiction

  • Hope Donnellan
    from Grief, Magic, and Boba
  • Lance P. Martin
    from The Raiders

Poetry

  • Jean Cassidy
    “A Very Short Story”
  • Sondra Hall
    “Blue-Green Girlhood”
  • Janet Ford
    “Flotsam, NC”
  • Rebecca Beck
    “Race”
  • Ginger Graziano
    “Sanctuary”
  • Paige Gilchrist
    “Jaw Bone”
  • Priscilla Frake
    “Small Imponderables”
  • Anne Maren-Hogan
    “Across the Road”
  • Tom Meyer
    “Porcupine”
  • Alida Woods
    “What She Carried”
    “My Smallness Holds Space for Wonder”
  • Dana Lichty
    “What He Said Was, Your Body Is a Lemon.”
  • Jerry Krajnak
    “Walking Patricia Home”

Reflections

  • Patrick Pickering
    “Some Ideas, a Scene, and a Star-Studded Cast”

Archives

Elizabeth Lutyens,
Editor-in-Chief

Janet Moore,
Special Features Editor
Julie Abbott,
Submissions Editor
Patrick Pickering,
UNC Asheville Intern
Michael Mauney,
Photographer

Jennifer McGaha,
Great Smokies Writing Program Coordinator
Lilly Danzis,
GSWP Administrative Assistant
Tracey Rizzo,
Dean of Humanities, UNC Asheville

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