Ploughshares Fall 2013 Guest-Edited by Peter Ho Davies

The Fall 2013 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Peter Ho Davies. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.

Award-winning novelist and short-story writer Peter Ho Davies (The Welsh Girl, Equal Love) compiles this fiction issue of Ploughshares. The issue features a wide diversity of styles—from Jo Lloyd's story of being young and broke in London, to V.V. Ganeshananthan's description of the death of a Sri Lankan terrorist, to Carolyn Ferrell's footnoted satire about members of an African-American community turning into zombies, each piece covers original ground and uses its own narrative strategies. "This is the thrill I found in each of these stories," Davies writes in his Introduction, "the sense that they spoke to me alone."

The issue also features Elise Levine's essay on deep-sea diving, and Robert Anthony Siegel's appreciation of the Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari.

INTRODUCTION
Peter Ho Davies

EDITOR PROFILE
Douglas Trevor

FICTION

“Tell Me My Name,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
“Three Summers,” by Nick Dybek
“Misterioso,” by Stuart Dybek
“Before They Were Flesh-Eating Zombies Trying to Take Over the World,” by Carolyn Ferrell
“K Becomes K,” by V.V. Ganeshananthan
“Planet of Fear,” by Travis Holland
“Jubilee,” by Michael Knight
“The Ground the Deck,” by Jo Lloyd
“Safekeeping,” by Megan Anderegg Malone
“Arlene in Five,” by Jerry McGahan
“Pretty,” by Nancy Welch

MISC

“Lost One In,” a Plan B essay by Elise Levine
“The Breeze in the Ink Painting,” a Look2 essay on Kawabata Yasunari by Robert Anthony Siegel

POSTSCRIPTS

Emerging Writer’s Contest Winners