One day in the autumn of 2016, Sami Malouf [1], a 26-year-old Syrian refugee, stepped off a bus in Athens, Greece. Sami had no money. It wasn’t a case of having not much money; he didn’t have any money. He had...
One day in the autumn of 2016, Sami Malouf [1], a 26-year-old Syrian refugee, stepped off a bus in Athens, Greece. Sami had no money. It wasn’t a case of having not much money; he didn’t have any money. He had...
This couldn’t be happening, but it was. Diana met her manager’s gaze, then looked down. The issue was the application she maintained, which was outdated. The technology would no longer be supported. “Your...
Translation from the Spanish by Tyler Gebauer The building super told me that a pair of white men, looking like businessmen and speaking with upper-class accents, had shown up at the boarding house late one...
Angola Angela, from the African region known as Angola, grower of figs, keeper of pigs, recorded as Angelo. Watched over by angels for whom she was named, survived the crossing in a ship’s bowels, survived...
“Do not go, Gentile, into that good night,” I murmured, reading of Ned Rorem’s recent death. It’s hard to imagine what a shock, in 1966, when religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation were still taboo, the...
Congrtualtions! Laura Jamison’s short story “Just Her Luck” has been selected for a Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize anthology.
Congratulations! Thomas Rayfiel’s essay “Bookstore” has been selected as a “Notable” essay in the new edition of the Best American Essays anthology, edited by Alexander Chee.
Poetry:
Snezana Zabic, “I Am an Elevator”
Jenny Hykes Jiang, “We Followed the American Fleeing, Fled”
Fiction:
The Escape by Seraph
Burger Revolution by Ranjan Adiga
Essay:
“A Thousand Times More than a Thousand Times More: a Working-Class Boy Surveys the Altitudes of American Money” by David L. Engelhardt
“It’s Hard to Be Housed” by Elizabeth Robinson
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)
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)
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.” —Grace Paley
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