It is said the spirit awakens, that a wonderment takes hold. It is said that the sun appears to invert, and in the gray-blue moments before totality, objects cast shadows in the form of the crescent moon. This is the common perception, the reported reality. The post Great American Eclipse appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

Solstice contributing editor Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella’s co-translations from the Ukrainian of “Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow: Selected Poems by Natalka Bilotserkivets” has been shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry. Carolyn Forché, this year’s judge, will announce the winner on October 13th, 2022. Our hearty congratulations also to Poetry Editor... Read more » The post Solstice Contributor News: Contributing Editor Dzvinia Orlowsky shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize in Poetry and Poetry Editor Robbie Gamble 2022 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize appeared first ..read more

Nonfiction Editor Richard Hoffman Takes a Deep Dive Into the Poisons of Racism, Hatred, and Mass Violence. The post From the Depths appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

Solstice contributing editor Marjan Kamali was awarded a 2022 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose. She is the author of The Stationery Shop, a national bestseller, and Together Tea, a Massachusetts Book Award finalist. The Stationery Shop is being adapted into a TV series at HBO and Together Tea was adapted for the stage. Marjan’s... Read more » The post Solstice Contributor News: Contributing Editor Marjan Kamali awarded a 2022 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

Solstice contributing editor DeWitt Henry’s book, Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays, was longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays completes a trilogy-in-memoir with Sweet Dreams and Safe Suicide. DeWitt was the founding editor of Ploughshares. He has also published a novel, a story collection, and... Read more » The post Solstice Contributor News: Contributing Editor DeWitt Henry’s book longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

merican Essays 2020. “Exit Wound” originally appeared in the Fall 2019 Issue of Solstice, which was a print-only edition. The post Solstice Contributor News: Robbie Gamble’s essay “Exit Wound” honored as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2020 appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

At silent 6AM, by the dawn’s early laptop light, I find them again: our stars. Onscreen, online—two fellow Thespians; two former Fantasticks. Blasts from my past. The post Winter Issue Highlights: “The Drama Room” (fiction excerpt) appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

In this poem, Rob Arnold explores his complicated relationship with his birth mother, and his Chamoru heritage.  The post Winter Issue Highlights: “Pearl” (opening stanza) appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

I am a Christian minister who once spent the night with a sex worker named Adam. The post Winter Issue Highlights: “The Seminarian and the Sex Worker” (nonfiction excerpt) appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more

The morning of the funeral, I circled my childhood bedroom in a terry cloth robe. Pacing between the closet and the bedspread, I added and subtracted touches on two perfect outfits. The post Winter Issue Highlights: “Desserts on a Tray” (fiction excerpt) appeared first on Solstice Literary Magazine ..read more