SwampPink Literary Journal

The Game of Life

Eric Schlich | Fiction

Midday Song

John A. Nieves | Poetry

Baby

Ani Banerjee | Flash Fiction

Fairytale

Shara McCallum | Poetry

Let’s Go*

Majda Gama | Poetry

Horse Loose

Alyse Burnside | Essays

Holy Land

Abi Diaz | Poetry

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A Review of Evie Shockley’s suddenly we

November 15, 2024 | blog, book reviews

Review by Tanner Crunelle, MFA ’24suddenly we112 pp. Wesleyan University Press. $15.95 Evie Shockley’s latest collection of poetry, suddenly we, contains the songs of a poet whose heart is so capacious it’s almost from another planet. We sail with Shockley into an Afrofuturist horizon, equipped with Toni Morrison’s proverb: “I refuse the prison of ‘I’ and…

Catching up with 2024 Fiction Prize Winner Aelita Parker

October 8, 2024 | blog, news

Aelita Parker is a Japanese and Irish American writer based in Brooklyn. She received her MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College and her BA in psychology, religious studies, and Japanese from the University of Pennsylvania. Her short fiction, “Maybe a Lion” can be read in the 9th issue of the Vassar Review. She is currently…

Catching Up with 2024 Nonfiction Prize Winner Max Pasakorn

October 8, 2024 | blog, interviews

Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is a queer writer of creative nonfiction and poetry. A Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Lambda Literary Retreat alum, Max has roots in Singapore, Thailand and the United States. Max is the author of creative nonfiction chapbook A Study in Our Selves (Neon Hemlock Press). Read Max’s other work in Split Lip Magazine,…

Catching up with Poetry Prize Winner Purvi Shah

October 8, 2024 | blog, interviews

Her most recent book, Miracle Marks (Northwestern UP, 2019), investigates gender violence and sacred survivals. Her prize-winning debut, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press, 2006), plumbs migration and loss. With Anjali Deshmukh, she creates interactive public art like Missed Fortunes, a community healing archive which documented pandemic rituals through poetry & visual art prints. Purvi relishes sparkly eyeshadow, raucous laughter, and seeking justice. SP: Throughout the piece you make use…