CONGRATULATIONS Tracy Sierra for winning Jimmy Fallon's Spring Book Bracket with her book Nightwatching!!! Nightwatching is out now!!! Check it out!😊

'It's much easier to get trapped up in telling a truthful story when you have the obligation of it being nonfiction. With fiction, I have so much more room to play around with, what I essentially consider like the dump doc where all these kinds of misfit ideas go'-Andy Gottschalk

New Peak Post everyone! In this Q&A with Lisa Ampleman, she discusses her new book Mom in Space which was released in January 2024. Mom in Space is a complicated love letter to both the intergalactic and the terrestrial. Check out the link in our bio!😊

Check out this new Peak Post where Isaac Yuen discusses the creation of his debut nature essay collection, titled Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World. Link in bio!😊

Hey everyone! Check out this new peak post where associate editor Moriah Katz and author Theresa Sylvester discuss the creative process behind Sylvester’s short story, “Atonement”. You don't want to miss this! Link in bio!😊

Check out this new post titled, 'Abstraction, Epigraphs, and Shifting Perspectives: A Conversation with Morgan Hamill'. Morgan Hamill, author of After and somewhere to rest, discusses her writing process, inspirations, and upcoming work with Shenandoah intern Ryan Doty. 🙂

Check out this new Peak Post! Sara Marchant, author of “Haunted”, published her debut full-length novel, Becoming Delilah, on August 15, 2023. Here, she speaks with nonfiction editor DW McKinney about the book and writing about early girlhood and womanhood. Read now!😊

Check on this new Peak Post! Athena Dixon, author of the nonfiction essay “Distillation,” discusses horror video games as writing inspiration, finding curiosity in life, and reexamining loneliness during her experience writing The Loneliness Files, in this essay. Link in bio!😊

Applications are now open for our Emerging Editor Fellowship! For more information and/or to submit an application, check out the link in our bio!🙂

Happy Friday everyone! Come check out some new content on The Peak! Tracy Sierra, author of “The Burr”, talks with interviewer William Shaw about new motherhood, scary stories, and her debut novel, Nightwatching. Check out the link in our bio!😊

Come read our latest edition of The Peak, 'A Chance to Play: DW McKinney Interviews Robert James Russell'. Robert James Russell, author of the comic “How to Make a Full English”, speaks about losing and finding his way back to comics in this edition of The Peak. Link in bio!😊

Our surroundings and methods shape our work. So, do you ever wonder how one's desk may impact one's writing? Well, Samuel Clark, author of “Bait Shop on the Bridge”, walks us through what is in his desk in this new Peak Post. Check it out now!😊

The Peak presents, 'Willie Lin on Conversation Among Stones'. Willie Lin discusses the process of writing and putting together her book, Conversation Among Stones. Use the link in our bio to read now!😊

Check out one of our new Peak Posts! Angie Kang, author of the comic “Birthmark” from volume 73.1, speaks about having agency over her body in healthcare settings and writing herself into her stories. Read it now! Link in bio!🙂

Happy Friday y'all! Here are our reading periods for 2024! For more info, check out the link in our bio!😊

CONGRATULATIONS to our Graybeal-Gowen Winner Majda Gama and her poem 'In Great Aunt Noor's Salon'!! A second congratulations to our runner up poem, 'The Starving Time” by Desiree Santana! Both poems will be published in our Spring 2024 issue!🎉😊

Fiction submissions for short stories and novel excerpts are officially closed! Thank you to all who contributed! Good luck to all!😊

Just a reminder: Fiction submissions for short stories and novel excerpts are open TOMORROW!!! Only the first 250 submissions will be accepted! Check out the link in our bio!🎉😊

It’s 1 day until our new issue launches!

“I think of the Gulf that day, how the water shone, a blue-glass vase with its rose of sun.” — Cynthia Hogue, “To the Sheltering Island”

The last slide features a blue-glass vase with its rose of sun.

It’s 2 days until our new issue launches!