SwampPink Literary Journal

Seismogram

Edmario Lesi | Fiction

Satyricon

Reese Lopez | Fiction, swamp pink Prize

The Five Remembrances

Brandel France de Bravo | Poetry, swamp pink Prize

Everything’s Fine at The Greenbrier!

L.C. Killingsworth | Essays, swamp pink Prize

Intruder

Leslie Michelle Nichols | Fiction

brother

Taha Ahmar Qadeer | Poetry

The Breaking Column

Shira Dentz | Poetry

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Catching up with 2026 Fiction Prize Winner Reese Lopez

October 27, 2026 | blog, Interviews

Reese Lopez holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Houston, where he was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow and winner of the Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is at work on a novel. This is his first published story.   What informed the beginning of your…

Catching Up with 2026 Nonfiction Prize Winner L.C. Killingsworth

October 20, 2026 | blog, Interviews

L.C. Killingsworth is a memoirist and screenwriter who likes to write about sad things that are funny (and funny things that are sad). Her essays can be found in places like River Teeth, and her screenplays have won various awards and recognitions, including the NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship. She is the co-host of Seersucker Live, a literary…

Catching Up with 2026 Poetry Prize Winner Brandel France de Bravo

September 22, 2026 | blog, news

Brandel France de Bravo’s third book of poems, Locomotive Cathedral  (2025), was selected in the Backwaters Press contest, an imprint of the University of Nebraska. Her poems have recently appeared in Best American Poetry, 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, The Southern Review and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the DC Commission for the Arts, the Hermitage Artist…

An Interview with Rae Dumont, author of In the Shadow of Silence

September 15, 2026 | blog, Interviews

“Bestseller career is not on my wish list, but I wanted to write something that was profoundly true.” — Rae Dumont