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This volume is about what happens when we pause long enough to notice what’s right in front of us. From Albrecht Dürer’s delicate study of a pillow (in the featured throwback) to work that wrestles with memory, loss, and moments of feebleness and desperation, this volume simply… looks closely. Each piece offers its own kind of quiet rebellion against our collective rush. (Maybe that’s why it took so long to get here?!?!?!)

Featuring

Fiction by...

Matt Bender (3rd place winner of the Beautiful Pause Prize for Fiction, 2024) / Charles Byrne / Barlow Crassmont / Patrick Doerksen / Terence Patrick Hughes / Melissa Loftus / Rene Maori / Pia Quintano / Kaylie Saidin / Anita Pan / Toluwaleyi Meadows

Nonfiction by...

John W. Ballantine / Sarah Harley / Jamie Simons / Jacob Taylor / Skylar Lynn Tibbetts / Renee Shi

Poetry by...

Carol Everett Adams / Mariam Ahmed / f. elliot / Jason Fraley / Gerburg Garmann / Ash Goedker / Dean Hel / Zama Madinana / Larissa Martins / Alise Versella

Art by...

Mark Blickley / Derritt Meyer / Jamie Simons / Rachel Turney / James Reade Venable

Music by...

Joshua Kepfer / Gerburg Garmann

Cover art by…

James Reade Venable - “All The Wild Sneezys”