Scoundrel Time

Feature Fiction

The English Teacher

i am a student from bangladesh. Julia Smith circled the “i” and the “b” with her red-ink ballpoint pen, her purple glasses hanging over her nose. She was sitting in her office marking papers. This particular...

Gemini Wahhaj

Feature Poetry

Six Poems by Tomaž Šalamun

*Translated by Brian Henry “I saw how the planet fell” I saw how the planet fell. Hands became bumblebees. Apples sharpened my teeth in the first age of gold. Bumblebees became foil. The foil is...

Tomaž Šalamun

Feature Poetry

Three Poems by Stephanie Burt

MY 1993 I lived in a closet. Also I lived in a closet Belonging to my then-best friend’s then-beau Who lived with three other men in a Central Square Walk-up, spacious and sunlit, except For the closet. The...

Stephanie Burt

Feature Fiction

COPESTONE

Red lights flash. Under clear protective outerwear suits masks are lifted from necks or pulled from bags, purses, and briefcases. Wishing they could come up with outerwear that would protect against the phage...

Deborah Prespare

Feature Fiction

Movie Night

I’ve been keeping something from my husband. I don’t anticipate this changing any time soon, as I’m concerned about the aftermath of confession. I’m not afraid of Aidan. Don’t even go there. Aidan is one of...

Colette Parris

2022 Editors’ Choice Awards

We’re excited to announce our 5th annual Editors’ Choice Awards, just in time for our 5th anniversary. Each year, the editors of Scoundrel Time choose a favorite work that we published in the past year in each of three genres, poetry, fiction, and essay. This year, each winner receives $100.

This year’s winners are:

April Bernard, “Allen v Farrow” (poetry)
Jessie Van Eerden, “Blessing for the Lice Check” (essay)
Munawar Abbas, “Voyeurs” (fiction)

We are excited to announce the Scoundrel Time Pushcart Prize nominees for 2022:

Works nominated by Scoundrel Time’s editors:

Fiction:

“Bright” by Marilyn Abildskov

“Voyeurs” by Munawar Abbas

Poetry:

Jennifer Moxley: “One of Everything”

Hussain Ahmed: “Suppose it Rained in Harmattan”

Essay:

“Blessing for the Lice Check” by Jessie Van Eerden

“Bounded Functions” by Donald Quist

Works nominated by Pushcart Prize contributing editors:

“Algorithims” by Cindy Bosley

“Kill All the Bats” by Mohammed Sheeraz Dasti

“Just her Luck” by Laura Jamison

Congratulations!

Ken Massey’s essay, “Behind the Red Railing: My Childhood Isolation,” has been selected as a Notable essay in the new edition of Best American Essays, edited by Kathryn Schulz.

Scoundrel Time journal congratulates the following winners of our special award for pandemic art, Art Against Isolation. These 7 powerful works appeared in our series, “Scenes from the Pandemic.” Each winning artist receives $100.

Award Winners, Art Against Isolation:

Virginia Beards, “April 7, 2020” (poem)

Lori Barrett, “The View From Inside” (essay)

Robbie Gamble, “Barriers” (essay)

Nene Humphrey, “Pandemic Sound Scrolls” (visual art)

Timothy Liu, “Four Poems” (poems)

Azarin Sadegh, “The Lizard” (fiction)

Eleanor Windman, “Coping on the Upper West Side” (fiction)