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."
Available now are nine new Ploughshares Solos, longform stories and essays also collected in our annual fall issue. Edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph, the Fall 2019 collection of Solos features new longform work by Andrea Barrett, Kiley Reid, Lex Williford, and Tracy Daugherty, as well as Ian Stansel, Nancy Mays, Danielle Spencer, Christopher Peacock, and Susan Neville. The stories and essays in our longform issue are also available for individual purchase as e-books.
Read "Notes on the Pekingese" by Takbum Gyel (translated by Christopher Peacock) :
"At first, the Pekingese lived in the same building as meactually, he was in the apartment right across the hall. I'd often encounter him sitting outside the door when I left for work in the morning or the afternoon, or when I was coming home at lunchtime and in the evening. Tiny, feeble, matted hair, an exhausted expressionhe was a pitiful sight to behold. Such a well-behaved dog, too."