- “What I Miss Most About Hell” by Eugenia Leigh
- “When I Was Straight” by Julie Marie Wade
- “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin” by Terrance Hayes
- “Ellen West” by Frank Bidart
- “St Zelda’s” by Allison Pinkerton
- “Woman of the Century” by Claire Polders
- “The Falling” by Michael Schmeltzer
- “Saudade” by Traci Brimhall
- “Self-Portrait as Vessel for Debris” by Heather Cox
- “In Which Athena Designs a Video Game with the Express Purpose of Trolling Her Father” by Amber Sparks
- “Girl” by Alexander Chee
- Poetry, April 2018 issue
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Recommended Reading #4
- “The Village with All of the Boyfriends” by Zachary Doss
- “The Murder Sounds” by Amy Silverberg
- “How to Spend Your Time Before the Renegade Planet Makes It All Go Dark” by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
- “Grief as Mythos” by Brandon Taylor
- “Let’s Not Begin” by Maggie Smith
- “How the End Begins” by Cynthia Cruz
- “Ten Step Tulpamancy” by Kia Groom
- “Beach City” by Jaquira Díaz
- The Best Small Fictions 2015, edited by Robert Olen Butler
- The Bad Cover Letter Generator, built by Kendra Fortmeyer, which generates extremely professional cover letters for the aspiring writer (give it a whirl!)