Ploughshares winter 2012-2013 edited by ladette

The Winter 2012-13 issue of Ploughshares, edited by John Skoyles and Ladette Randolph. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Ploughshares editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and poetry editor John Skoyles compile this Winter issue, which features the work of several distinguished writers as well as the winners of the Emerging Writer?s Contest. The issue features fiction about the Bei Piao, the aimless twenty-somethings who wander modern Beijing (?Days of Being Mild,? by Xuan Juliana Wang), the legacy of anti-Semitism in Belgium (?Strawberries,? by Karl Taro Greenfeld), an essay about a painful high school production of The Miracle Worker (?Heather, 1984,? by Kate Flaherty), and poetry by Carl Dennis, Barbara Hamby, Ellen Bass, Afaa Michael Weaver, and many more. INTRODUCTION Ladette Randolph FICTION A Blink a Blink and Dehiscence, by Shauna Galante The Wicked of the Earth, by Barry Gifford by Karl Taro Greenfeld by Joshua Howes Victoria Falls Hotel, Reese Okyong Kwon by Matthew Neill Null Come the Revolution, by Emma Torzs Days of Being Mild, by Xuan Juliana Wang NONFICTION Heather, 1984, by Kate Flaherty by Gretchen E. Henderson POETRY by Keith Althaus Valerie Bandura Ellen Bass Ciaran Berry James Crews Carl Dennis Hilary Vaughn Dobel Peter Everwine Ona Gritz Barbara Hamby Kerry Hardie Tony Hoagland Brenna W. Lemieux Matthew Lippman Dave Nielsen D. Nurkse Rebecca Okrent January Gill O'Neil Gretchen Primack Grace Schauer Maria Terrone David Thacker Nance Van Winckel Ryan Vine Afaa Michael Weaver Eric Weinstein Stephen Neal Weiss EMERGING WRITER'S CONTEST Fiction: The Culling, by Jasmine Sawers Nonfiction: What You Will Do, by Jacob Newberry Poetry: Three Bath Poems, by Jen Silverman MISC A Life in a House, a Plan B essay by Timothy Schaffert Taking Feminist to 'Fantasticoes,' a Look2 essay on Jaimy Gordon by John Domini POSTSCRIPTS Zacharis Award Winner Heidy Steidlmayer