Eckleburg is a literary and arts journal publishing original works from both emerging and awarded writers, poets, artists and musicians including Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, Moira Egan and David Wagoner.
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Eckleburg 18 Contributors
Cover Art by CHAS SCHROEDER
FICTION
You’re an Ugly Crier, MEGAN GIDDINGS
from His Wife Leaves Him, STEPHEN DIXON
The Sky Too, VALLIE LYNN WATSON
The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest, RICK MOODY
Bomb Squad, JASON OLSEN
A Diverse Flora of Native and Introduced Species, Beautifully Adapted to Their Microenvironment, DON HUCKS
Fourteen, STEVE ALMOND
Job History, ANDREW ROE
Maps, WESTON CUTTER
Permanent, MARJORIE MADDOX
Saver’s Delight, CARALYN DAVIS
Smoke, CHAD SIMPSON
Emails from the Staybridge Suites Anaheim, SUZANNE MARIE HOPCROFT
Thieves, LEN KUNTZ
Whale Skull, MATT FERNER
GERTRUDE STEIN AWARD IN FICTION
1ST PLACE | Salvage, JILL BIRDSALL
2ND PLACE | In Defense of the Body, MICHAEL SHOU-YUNG SHUM
3RD PLACE | Hello My New Friend, I Hope, BIRD MARATHE
POETRY
Common, NICHOLAS YB WONG
Portrait d’Erik Satie, MOIRA EGAN
After Being Asked to Write a Villanelle, DAVID WAGONER
Terms of Use, JOSEPH A. W. QUINTELA
Contolled Hallucinations, JOHNS SIBLEY WILLIAMS
What I Imagine the Man Wearing the Neon Green Lacoste Polo Hitting on
the Blonde with the Halter Top Would Be Saying If He Were an Intellectual, JESSE DAMIANI
Of Brains Or Bowels Or Lungs, Leopards, Finches, NATHAN BLAKE
Red Market, LINDSAY LUSBY
To Adam, BILLIE TADROS
Women and Children First, LINDSAY LUSBY
ESSAY
from Something Wrong with Her: A Hybrid Memoir, CRIS MAZZA
CENTERFOLD Storytelling & Spanking, STEVE ALMOND
TRANSLATIONS
TRANS. NICHOLAS YB WONG
The Women Who Watch, TRANS. EDWARD GAUVIN
GALLERY
B. J. LLOYD
CHAS SCHROEDER | Nearby Balconies
JACOB OET
OGUN AFARIOGUN
MORGAN ELLIOT
LEX | Ink
GROOVE
Consumption Work, THE SIZE QUEENS
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Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away. —The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are pleased to announce our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Series in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. This was a very difficult decision, narrowing our nominees, as we have been honored to publish outstanding works by outstanding writers throughout every issue. Congratulations to our nominees and best wishes to them and all the Pushcart Prize nominees from our colleague journals. It has been a fantastic year in literature both print and online.