SwampPink Literary Journal

Subject to Error

Eva Heisler | Poetry

Flotsam

Melanie Faranello | Fiction

Cold Fish

Michelle Ross | Flash Fiction

Holy Mother

Jeanine Walker | Poetry

Chili Padi Girl in a Chili Padi World

Max Pasakorn | Essays, swamp pink Prize

Whistle

Purvi Shah | Poetry, swamp pink Prize

Rotten Teeth

Aelita Parker | Fiction, swamp pink Prize

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An Interview with Afabwaje Kurian, author of Before the Mango Ripens

September 19, 2024 | blog, interviews

Having been born in the United States and raised in a family of immigrants, I (Anik Nalbandian, MFA ’26) was excited to read and navigate the perspectives and paths represented in Afabwaje Kurian’s Before the Mango Ripens. This book braids the experience of native Nigerians with American missionaries to tell a tale of what it…

An Interview with Iheoma Nwachukwu, author of Japa and Other Stories

September 12, 2024 | blog, interviews

Having lived and grown up in North Charleston, South Carolina, I (Mary McCall, MFA ’26) was intrigued to read and traverse the many perspectives represented in Iheoma Nwachukwu’s Japa and Other Stories. This short fiction collection interweaves both stories of the Nigerian experience and immigration with the simultaneously individual and universal tale of what it…

An Interview with Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn, author of Loose of Earth

April 12, 2024 | blog, interviews

Having grown up in the rural Bible Belt of the South as a homeschooler, I (Suz Guthmann, MFA ’25) connected deeply with Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn’s memoir, Loose of Earth. Recounting her childhood in Lubbock, Texas, Blackburn brings to the light her experience of faith healings, forever chemicals, and religiously driven homeschooling. At its core, Loose…

Demand To Be Heard: A Review of Halle Hill’s Good Women

March 14, 2024 | blog, book reviews

Good Women, the debut collection of stories from Halle Hill, follows the intimate lives of Black, southern women as they navigate the socially and politically fraught waters of what it means to be, as the title suggests, “good” women.