The Fall 2020 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”

The Fall 2020 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph, features new longform work by Michelle Herman, John Elizabeth Stintzi, Holiday Reinhorn, and Marjorie Sandor, as well as Nicholas Delbanco, Melody Graulich, Praveen Krishna, Melissa Oliveira, and Vincent Yu. The stories in this longform issue are also available for individual purchase as e-books.