Map Literary: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art
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  • Poetry
    • Richard Ryal
    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Mark DeCarteret
    • Dennis Hinrichsen Poetry
    • Daniel Biegelson
    • Natan Last
    • Jim Daniels Poetry
    • Michael Chang
    • D E Steward
    • Benjamin Paloff Poetry
    • David Dodd Lee
    • Isabelle Doyle
    • Kathleen Heil
    • Leonard Kress
    • Lauren Tess
    • Cesca Janece Waterfield
    • Billy Cancel Poetry
    • Scott Minar
    • Greg Glazner
    • Bruce McRae
    • Maureen Thorson
  • Fiction
    • On Experimental Fiction
    • Mark Cassidy, "How I Met My Wife"
    • Emily Trachtenberg, "Plum"
    • Hector Donovan-Gonzalez
    • Christopher Linforth, "Zia"
    • Jenessa Abrams, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
    • Eros Livieratos, "On Feeling"
    • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
    • Justin Meckes, "The Gash"
    • Reb Livingston, from "Bombyonder"
    • Craig Foltz, "Without Stigma"
  • Nonfiction
    • Martha Wiseman, "Loose Ends"
    • Jan Jolly, "Through My Father's Glasses"
    • Kristina Moriconi, "Still Looking"
    • Wm. Anthony Connolly, "IGY"
    • Cal Freeman, "Loosestrife"
    • W.F. Lantry, "The Strange Beauty of the Unfamiliar"
    • Michael Roloff, "Accretion"
    • Andrew Sunshine, "John Hancock's John Hancock"
    • Diane Payne, "3 micro memoirs"
    • Luc Sante, "Flesh and Bone"
    • Isobel O'Hare, "Failure: A Love Letter"
    • Melissa Wiley, "Barbed Wire Fence"
    • Ashley Wilkinson, "fractional distillation"
  • Art
FICTION, 2022
  • ​MARK CASSIDY, "How I Met My Wife"​​

FICTION, 2021

  • HECTOR DONOVAN-GONZALEZ, "Please, Bosnia–Please this is Bosnia!"  
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  • DAN A. CARDOZA, "My Father, Eddie the Butcher"
 
  • STEINUR BELL, "How to Measure Rain"
 
  • JOHN REID, "Frames"
 
  • J. ALAN NELSON, "Re Matter of the Longhorn Skull and One Ball Buck"
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  • EMILY TRACHTENBERG, "Plum"

  • LIAM MEJIA, "Please, Bosnia – Please this is Bosnia!"
 
  • RICH IVES, "Insect People"

FICTION, 2020

  • CHRISTOPHER LINFORTH, "Zia" 
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  • MARLENE OLIN, "Wanna Ride?"
 
  • JENESSA ABRAMS, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
 
  • REBECCA BERG, "My Father's Daughter"

FICTION, 2019

  • KEVIN STERNE, "Wisconsin's American Zoo (WAZOO) Invites You to Pet the Meese"  
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  • EROS LIVIERATOS, "On Feeling"
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  • JAMES WILLIAM GARDNER, "Lowcountry Boil"
 
  • SEAN TROLINDER, "MLA Citation Gone Wild--Shakespeare in Love: A Sexy Essay"
 
  • GUY BIEDERMAN, "Sociale"
 
  • DARRYL HALBROOKS, "A Head of His Time"​
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  • REBECCA HANNIGAN, "Little"

FICTION, 2018

  • REBECCA PYLE, "Winter Solstice"

  • MARTIN RUTLEY, "Job Offer on Seventh Heaven"
 
  • MATTHEW BAKER, "Superhighway"
 
  • MATTHEW SERBACK, "How to Make a Boulder"
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  • PAVLE RADONIC, "The Laboratory"​

FICTION, 2017

  • KATHRYN HOLZMAN, "Eating Meat"

  • KAITLYN BURD, "Nature with You in It"

  • KATIE YOUNG FOSTER, "Promotion"

  • WILLIAM CORDEIRO, "Selections from Whispering Gallery"

  • ALEXANDRA RENWICK, "The Life of an Artifact in Duodecadal Glances"

  • LIZZI WOLF, "My Brother's Therapist"​​​

FICTION, 2016

  • LOIE MERRITT, "The Edge of the Sea is a Strange and Beautiful Place"

  • MITCHELL GRABOIS, "i"

  • KELLE GROOM, "25 Reasons to Attend the Gala"

  • JODI AZZOUNI, "Owning Things. Owning a Lot of Things."

  • DAN GUTSTEIN, "Like Airplanes and Stars"
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  • KATE IMBACH, "Diamondland"​

FICTION, 2015

  • ADRIAN CLASS, "Or Flights"

  • ​ERIN BEDFORD, "Riesenrad"

  • JAMES BRAZIEL, "Jick's Chevrolet," "Vittate"

  • ERICA L. KAUFMAN, "It Buried Us"

  • NOLAN LIEBERT, "Gravity of Hearts"

  • HEATHER NOLAND, "Cosmic Slump"

  • TOM WHALEN, "In the Cathedral" ​

FICTION, Fall 2014

  • JON FRIED, "Cashing In"

  • SARAH KAHN, "Break"

  • REBEKAH MORTON, "Big Sis"

  • KELLI ANNE NOFTLE, "Before She Was Olive"

  • CHRIS OKUM, "Ratatat"
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  • MATT ROWAN, "Dog's Best Friend"

  • LISA C. TAYLOR, "Visible Wounds"

FICTION, Spring 2014

  • GARETH DAVID ANDERSON, "Cupcake"
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  • HALSTED M. BERNARD, "Your Hands"
 
  • PATRICK COLE, "Pick-Up Lines"
 
  • JOSHUA GRABER, "This Fine Experience"
 
  • LOLA GRACE, "Natural Birth"
 
  • ROBERT E. TANNER, "Non-Disclosure Agreement"
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  • About
    • Masthead
    • Submissions
    • Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award
    • NJ High School Writing Contest
    • In Print
    • Subscribe
    • Links
    • Internship Opportunity
    • WPU MFA
  • Poetry
    • Richard Ryal
    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Mark DeCarteret
    • Dennis Hinrichsen Poetry
    • Daniel Biegelson
    • Natan Last
    • Jim Daniels Poetry
    • Michael Chang
    • D E Steward
    • Benjamin Paloff Poetry
    • David Dodd Lee
    • Isabelle Doyle
    • Kathleen Heil
    • Leonard Kress
    • Lauren Tess
    • Cesca Janece Waterfield
    • Billy Cancel Poetry
    • Scott Minar
    • Greg Glazner
    • Bruce McRae
    • Maureen Thorson
  • Fiction
    • On Experimental Fiction
    • Mark Cassidy, "How I Met My Wife"
    • Emily Trachtenberg, "Plum"
    • Hector Donovan-Gonzalez
    • Christopher Linforth, "Zia"
    • Jenessa Abrams, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
    • Eros Livieratos, "On Feeling"
    • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
    • Justin Meckes, "The Gash"
    • Reb Livingston, from "Bombyonder"
    • Craig Foltz, "Without Stigma"
  • Nonfiction
    • Martha Wiseman, "Loose Ends"
    • Jan Jolly, "Through My Father's Glasses"
    • Kristina Moriconi, "Still Looking"
    • Wm. Anthony Connolly, "IGY"
    • Cal Freeman, "Loosestrife"
    • W.F. Lantry, "The Strange Beauty of the Unfamiliar"
    • Michael Roloff, "Accretion"
    • Andrew Sunshine, "John Hancock's John Hancock"
    • Diane Payne, "3 micro memoirs"
    • Luc Sante, "Flesh and Bone"
    • Isobel O'Hare, "Failure: A Love Letter"
    • Melissa Wiley, "Barbed Wire Fence"
    • Ashley Wilkinson, "fractional distillation"
  • Art