Quarterly West
@QuarterlyWest
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Work reprinted in Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize. Stories shortlisted for Best American and the O. Henry Prize.
University of Utah
Joined May 2011
EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS, guest-edited by @xAdakia, is officially live! You can find it on our "Features" page, or right here: https://t.co/QIqS2NjO7Q
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Thrilled to have a new story up in @QuarterlyWest today! Would love for you to read it and all of the other great work. https://t.co/v8hlMASPEr
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The new issue of @QuarterlyWest is out, featuring incredible prose from @sarahdestin, @craigfoster77, and more! Special for many reasons, this is my last issue as prose editor--feeling nostalgic and grateful 🥰 read here!
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It was a treat to curate the beautiful poems in this latest issue of @QuarterlyWest with my friend, @bigshakyred. Check it out: https://t.co/OwLRBARWI8
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You remember COVID era censorship, right? They banned us from their apps. They deplatformed alternate views and tried to silence any form of opposition. That's why we built Unplugged. So when the chips are down, we know we have an independent platform that will have our back.
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Huge congrats to QW contributor Adam Peterson! We simply can't wait to read GOSPELS. You can get a taste of Peterson's brilliant, moving work in our EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS special issue: https://t.co/9MPBQBGHup
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Congrats to the 2025 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction winner, Adam Peterson! His manuscript GOSPELS will be published by Mad Creek Books, a division of The Ohio State University Press. Thank you to this year’s judge, Kevin Wilson. https://t.co/CrMePYfGZG
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"Angel if I felt better about myself / I could fall asleep" Former Poetry Editor @williamfargason published three new poems in @QuarterlyWest! 👏 https://t.co/WvHm3cz6ia
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“...what is transported, occupies our flesh without our awareness like a painless splinter too small to see, crosses barriers one way or another, is a rainbow of what we’ve consumed” —from “What We Swallow” by @elinorann_poet, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/eXKhwwjl6U
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“You can buy hard liquor at the gas stations here... Being home is liberating and oppressive at once, like having a body.” —from Easton Smith's story "Aquifers," in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/srKQMTd3Bv
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"...the pear tree’s petals, backlit, as they’re blown through the air, can make tenderness for once seem an easy thing: just particularity made visible—" —from “I’ll Miss Most What I Loved Best” by Carl Phillips, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/3dnZEbnFw4
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"Civilization crumbles back into the dust out of which we raised it. Was it worth the humiliation of having had to live?" —from Adam Peterson's story “KEITH, or: the Last Man on Earth," in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/9MPBQBG9ER
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“There is nothing a man must learn to become a father; if he is a man that is enough... This is something he learned from his father, when he had one.” —from Jane Morton's story "Unknown Caller," in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/mNfUco8gaL
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“At mass, we had two roles— the book or the cup. I preferred book, less literal vessel, human podium for the priest." —from “Altar Service” by Kaitlin Miller, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/HxwIUHQMu9
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"These created environs test the limits of human invention and perception... Objects for contemplation, the works are meant to exercise and expand imaginations in dark times." —Celeste Connor, on her art in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/lbVzRAbRJU
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The Smart Search List of the Day is: General Experimental Short Stories feat. @quarterlywest @wildroofjournal @propaguleco @Blood_Honey_Lit et al. https://t.co/EdM3VDO1S4
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"you must be afraid & you must walk forward. you must watch your heart close like the tight-seam of a clam. you must be spite & no mouth." —from “pledge” by @sweatermuppets, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/EZkvcREUxX
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“As long as there is someone beneath us. As long as there is a face to greet our fist, we send it, the fist once sent to us, we pass it down without hesitation.” —from “Punches Down” by @ChrisKondrich, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/XA2baKAeKY
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“How could I forget that taste of pollen-dust, its hint of metal, like blood if it were not cursed, not starless and half-dead like me?” —from “Pastoral” by Sara Eliza Johnson, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/azsgdxMj6U
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“I chose I chose I would choose again my own knowing” —from “Prayer for a thousand tomorrows” by Leslie Harrison, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/r5QOTWq47e
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