Spring 2023 - Solstice Literary Magazine

BEST OF THE NET 2023; Essay in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2018;
(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist

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Spring 2023

I’ve found great pleasure in editing our Spring 2023 issue, and I’m sure you’ll be delighted to read the beautiful work of our contributors in all genres included here. In particular, I’m ecstatic to welcome Haitian-born poet and author Enzo Silon Surin as our poetry guest editor. When I met Enzo at AWP, I was immediately drawn to his warm personality and his awesome sense of style (looking dapper in salmon red chinos, knit blazer, and button-down shirt). As for our annual Summer Writing Contest, I’m thrilled to share that our submissions period is now open and we at Solstice are tremendously fortunate to have the support of remarkable authors Grace Talusan, Patricia Engel, A. Van Jordan, and Jess Ruliffson who will be judging the nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and graphic lit genres respectively. Our submissions period will be open through June 1 and I hope you’ll send us your best work. More details can be found here.

Lorena Hernández Leonard
Editor-in-Chief

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

Fiction

The Burial
by Jack Driscoll
Radiant Insanity
by Tina Egnoski
Back Along The Octoraro
by Breena Clarke
The Afterlife of History
by Breena Clarke
Most Things Don’t Happen
by Phillip Freeman
The Rivermen
by Sithulisiwe. A. Wabatagore
Birds of New York
by Rebecca Pyle
The Dead Love Us
by Emily Shoff
Interview
Interview with Sena Desai Gopal
by Anjali Mitter Duva
Interview
Interview with Jack Driscoll
by Patricia Ann McNair

Graphic Lit

Jr. History Camp
by Nance Van Winckel

Nonfiction

A Piece of Cloth
by Nada Siddiqui
Her Hair
by Omid Fallahazad
Internal Logic
by Tobey Ward
Nature’s Push
by Matt Paczkowski
White Kids’ Nightmares
by Gail Griffin
Graphology
by Dickson Lam
A New Lesson on an Old Hill
by Natasha Israni
Back and Forth
by Brandy E. Wyant
A Sense of An Ending
by Gary Percesepe
Review
As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book by Anne-Marie Oomen
by Bronwyn Jones
Review
Attention, Humor, Curiosity, and Poetry. Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman
by Richard Hoffman
Review
The Beloved Republic by Steven Harvey
by Richard Cambridge
Interview
Fairyland, an Interview with Alysia Abbott
by Lorena Hernández Leonard

Photography

Where Do I Go?
by Rania Matar

Poetry

Poetry in translation

Contributors

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