Welcome to Issue 5.2! This week, we’re excited to bring you three fantastic pieces by three talented women writers. We know you will enjoy the narrative nonfiction piece “Marriage” by Judith Crosland, an interview by Leslie Leonard with her mother, and the poem “My Ego” by Marie Lance. We would love to publish more interviews…
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A Word from the Editor
Happy New Year! We wish all our readers and contributors all the best in 2018! Thank you for your continued support of the Same. 2017 was a wonderful year in us, in that it’s the year our journal was born! We’ve had more success than we could have dreamed of, and we are excitedly looking to…
A Word from the Editor
We are thrilled to bring you another issue this week with fabulous work by three talented women writers. Tori Popowich paints a vibrant picture of the moment when we realize our parents are just people in her creative nonfiction piece “Bees, Pirates and a Switch.” In her lovely short story “Bird”, SD Pitman takes us…
A Word from the Editor
I’m so excited to announce today the winners of our writing competitions! We had many fantastic submissions in each category. First place in each category is $50 and publication in our annual anthology. Second and third places in each category will receive publication in the anthology. Additionally, we will soon be contacting several of the…
Book Review – Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows In Southall, a brown suburb of London, young Nikki is hired to teach an adult literacy class marketed as a creative writing course to a group of Punjabi widows at the local Gurudwara. These women show up at the temple everyday to pass their time in a…
A Word from the Editor
We are so excited to bring you Issue 4.1! We have several exciting announcements to share with you this week. First of all, we are so excited to announce the six authors/pieces we’ve nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Catherine Kapphahn for her essay “The Geology of Grief” Linda Trinh for her essay “Sacred Hands” Raima…
A Word from the Editor
Welcome to Issue 3.4! We have one small announcement this week. We are now again open to poetry submissions! So, if you’ve been waiting to send us your poetry, wait no longer! We look forward to reading your beautiful words. Don’t forget our Short Story and Nonfiction contests! There are only four days left to…
A Word from the Editor
Welcome to Issue 3.3! After experiencing some technical difficulties, we’re finally launching this new issue into the world a few hours late. We hope it will be worth the wait! Please don’t forget our Short Story and Nonfiction Contests. The deadline is swiftly approaching! There are only 10 days left to get your submissions to…
Issue 3.3 – Nonfiction
First appeared in The Manifest-Station Even now, all these years later, I have a recurring dream about driving alone around Madison, lost and trying to find my way home. I am driving around hills, the lake always on one side. It all looks so familiar but I am not sure I am heading in…
Issue 3.3 – Fiction
She makes it all the way into the room before realizing her mistake. Standing in the doorway, her arms stacked with fresh laundry, she blinks in the dim light, rubbing at her nose. Dust from the closed-up room rushes toward her and she sneezes. She shakes her head. How silly and absent-minded she’s getting….
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