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Marc Anthony Richardson

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Night Is the Best Counsel, Conjunctions:75

Biography

An artist and novelist from Philadelphia, Marc Anthony Richardson won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and an American Book Award for his debut novel, Year of the Rat (Fiction Collective Two, 2016). Richardson is also the recipient of a PEN America grant, a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright fellowship, and a 2021 Creative Capital award. He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2021 will be a writer-in-residence at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. “Night Is the Best Counsel” is an excerpt from his upcoming novel, Messiahs (Fiction Collective Two, 2021).

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Conjunctions:81

Numina: The Enchantment Issue

Fall 2023
Bradford Morrow

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The Greens, the Birds, the Speech, the Dance, the Silence

by Jessica Reed

November 29, 2023

The greens—myriad, viridescent:
every one of them alive.

Freesias

by Aimee Bender

November 22, 2023

HE WENT DOWN THE STREET, his old street, on a whim, and then the whim birthed another and he turned [...]

Berlin

by Han Ong

November 15, 2023

Curious spirits, Eleanor says. I cannot discern that these spirits around you have a personal connection to you, by which I mean, I cannot discern the emotions common to relations and loved ones, like love or concern. These are spirits who you do not know. I don't know why they are gathered around you. Maybe they are just passing through and something about you has detained them for the hour, for the day.