The summer issue of Indiana Review is out now! Here’s an exclusive sneak peek of Emily Harnden’s short story, “Zero to Egg to Love.”
Zero-to-Egg-to-LoveRead the rest in Indiana Review issue 43.1, available for purchase here.
Emily Harnden is from the Midwest. Her stories and essays have appeared in Puerto del Sol, the Normal School, and The Adroit Journal, among others. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Art by Shanequa Gay.
Reviewed by Laura Dzubay
In a late chapter in Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, Michelle Nijhuis shares a quote from legal scholar Holly Doremus: “Nature advocates have obtained much of what they have asked for, but they have not asked for what they really want.” The climate crisis has recently begun taking its long overdue place in the spotlight of international concern, and in that context, Doremus’s observation highlights something crucial: that we only have so much time to choose the future we want.
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Indiana Review is accepting submissions for the Don Belton Prize until June 15th! In this interview with our editors, 2021 judge Anjali Sachdeva tells us about the her writing process, the unreal in her fiction, and the writers she’s loving right now.
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We are excited to announce the winner and finalists of the 2021 Fiction Prize, judged by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Many thanks to everyone who submitted their work and made this year’s prize possible!
“Seance” by Suphil Lee Park
Kali Fajardo-Anstine says, “Seance is an imaginative gem of a short story that evokes feelings of adolescence while gripping the reader from the very first line: “The dead girl’s indoor slippers got on everyone’s nerves, but no one in the class 7 had the gall to throw them away.” Wholly inventive with characters like The Class Clown, The Poet, and The Thinker, Séance is also filled with nostalgia, those leftover echoes of adolescence and its shared communal spaces of education. This a short story set within its own universe, a world that is as striking as its realistic and lifelike characters. Seance is a warm, inventive, and charming short story.”
“Tank” by Jenna Abrams
“Cabin” by K.W. Oxnard
“Faceless Styrofoam Heads” by Holly Pekowsky
“The Precarious Births of Giraffes” by Keya Mitra
“Poochi” by Avrina Prabala-Joslin
The winner will be published in the Winter 2021 issue of Indiana Review.
We are excited to announce the winner and runners-up of the 2021 Poetry Prize, judged by Zeina Hashem Beck. Many thanks to everyone who submitted their work and made this year’s prizes possible!
“What Happens Next” by Sarah Burke
Zeina Hashem Beck says, “’What Happens Next’ is a poem I kept returning to, discovering something new with each additional reading. The poet skillfully uses both directness and indirectness to speak about the female body, as the reader is taken from ovaries to chimes, from parade to empty churches. I love how the first and last stanzas echo each other in their first lines, “This is how the ovaries shut down” and “This is how a person wakes up.” What might be perceived as an ending becomes an unexpected beginning in the body, a freedom, a celebration.”
“Coyote on the Side of the Golden State Freeway” by L.A. Johnson
“The End of Sorrow is Not Happiness” by Jamaica Baldwin
“Persona poem” and “Root canal” by Nina Dahan-Reljich
“The Company Sign” by Emma Jones
“Swing Low Sweet Chariot Stop and Let Me Ride” by Brionne Janae
“A Trans Man’s Guide to Finding a Partner” by Arien Reed
“Kill the Messenger” and “Phone Sex III” by Fatima-Ayan Hirsi
The winner will be published in the Winter 2021 issue of Indiana Review.
