Was it the bomb or the daughter that came first? The vow and a promise to fig trees and ripe lemons, brown pools of sugared dates, my father’s eyes burned with memories of air raids. A ceasefire buried in...
Was it the bomb or the daughter that came first? The vow and a promise to fig trees and ripe lemons, brown pools of sugared dates, my father’s eyes burned with memories of air raids. A ceasefire buried in...
The Grief of Achilles Very few dispute that his mother dipped him in the River Styx to ensure immortality, the spot on his heel she held left vulnerable and soft. Nor do many dispute Achilles as an outstanding...
“Each match holds a different part of your story. Compare aspects like ethnicity, common ancestors, and communities to start assembling your family’s bigger picture.” Overnight in my inbox they arrive stacked...
October 7, 2023 Dear Friend, That moment when you realize how naïve you’ve been, that it won’t make a difference–your political convictions or your desire for co-existence; your weekly (sometimes...
Congratulations! 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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