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
We Are All Breakable, Ready to Break, Conjunctions:74
We Are All Breakable, Ready to Break — A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel's Kin: The Monsters Issue, Online 06-22-2020

Biography

Lucas Southworth’s first fiction collection, Everyone Here Has a Gun (University of Massachusetts Press), won AWP’s Grace Paley Prize. Recent work has appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, and others. He teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.

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In Print

Conjunctions:74

Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

Spring 2020
Edited by Bradford Morrow

Online

Four Poems

by F. Daniel Rzicznek

June 30, 2020

The bones and crosses left out for him an emerald

Cicada dying attended by ants the emperor’s pleading face

All over town I dragged it behind me like a wing

New Sisters

A Selected Text from Conjunctions:74, Grendel’s Kin: The Monsters Issue

by Selena Anderson

June 29, 2020

Quisa had fallen into the habit of disappointing herself, and then disappointing herself a little more, with the words she let slip from her mouth. She kept talking to people in this hungry, intimate way, as if they too had spent the time of their lives in their heads and read the warning labels too closely and worried irrationally about their lymph nodes. Accidental confessions are what these amounted to.

Thrown

by Roy Kesey

June 23, 2020

Four cops come. Both parents are arrested, D&D. The children—William, six, and Stephanie, three—are taken by CPS.

The neighborhood will be quiet for almost two weeks.