Contributors

Lucas Southworth

Contributor History

Same Life / Different One, Online 02-08-2008
An Introduction to James Gatrell’s Journals and Letters, Online 10-23-2012
Something Human, Online 08-01-2017

Biography

Lucas Southworth’s first fiction collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun (University of Massachusetts Press), won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize. He has contributed several stories to the Conjunctions online edition, and his work has appeared in such periodicals as TriQuarterly, Meridian, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, and Willow Springs. He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, and edits for the Baltimore Review.

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In Print

Conjunctions:70

Sanctuary: The Preservation Issue

Spring 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

The Malingerers

by Kristine Ong Muslim

November 13, 2018

8:00 p.m. in this perpetual night shift, and we talk again to the person inside the photo booth, you know, that one photo booth that tunnels all the way down—or up, depending on where you are—to that familiar place where all afterlife and underworld mythologies owe their artifice, the predictability of salvation they purport to deliver.

Days of Heaven

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:71, A Cabinet of Curiosity

by A. D. Jameson

November 8, 2018

A grown-up man not unlike me is trying to coax a struggling child into a box. That’s badly phrased and only a single sentence in we are in need of starting over.

From It Was Over There by That Place

by Diane Glancy

November 6, 2018

There were parts I recognized.

I saw by night a man riding a red horse and he stood among the myrtle trees in the bottom and behind him were red horses, sorrel and white. My Lord what are these?