(a Press 53 publication)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
ISSUE 191, JANUARY — MARCH 2021
Welcome to our first issue of 2021! Here you will find information on the 2021 Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction, with judges Stacy R. Nigliazzo (poetry) and Dennis McFadden (short fiction). You’ll also find our 2020 Pushcart Prize nominees, recent winners of our free 53-Word Story Contest, and poetry selections by our guest poetry editor Lindsey Royce and short fiction selections by our guest short fiction editor Rhonda Browning White.
Browse our selections for this issue by clicking on the photo or the title of the poem or story. Enjoy!
The 2021 Prime Number Magazine Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction are open now for entries until the end of March!
Meet our Judges
Poetry Judge Stacy R. Nigliazzo and Short Fiction Judge Dennis McFadden are waiting to read your work. First Prize in each category is $1,000 plus a Pushcart Prize nomination and publication in Issue 199 of Prime Number Magazine on October 1, 2021. Read Stacy’s and Dennis’s bios and and get information on how to enter by clicking this link.
Congratulations to our 2020 Pushcart Prize nominees!
Each year, small presses can nominate for a Pushcart Prize up to six pieces they published that year. Please join us in celebrating our 2020 nominees.
Poetry
Short Fiction
Winners of our FREE monthly 53-Word Story Contest
It's free, it's fun; the winner gets published in Prime Number Magazine and receives a free book from Press 53.
Get the new prompt for this month’s competition here.
Editors' Selections
Each issue, we ask our guest editors to select their favorite poems or stories from those submitted during our open submission period. Submissions are free and only accepted through Submittable. Here are the guest editors for Issue 191, January-March 2021.
Guest Editor for Poetry
Lyndsey Royce
Lindsey Royce is the author of Play Me a Revolution (Press 53, 2018) and Bare Hands (2016). She holds a PhD in Creative Writing/Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston and an MA in English and American Literature Studies/ Poetry from New York University. Her poems have appeared in many American periodicals and anthologies, including the Aeolian Harp anthology, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Poet Lore, and Washington Square Review.
Lindsey’S SELECTIONS
Guest Editor for Short Fiction
rhonda browning white
Rhonda Browning White won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction with The Lightness of Water & Other Stories. Her work appears in Qu Literary Journal, Hospital Drive, HeartWood Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Steel Toe Review, Ploughshares Writing Lessons, Tiny Text, NewPages, South 85 Journal, The Skinny Poetry Journal, WV Executive, Mountain Echoes, Gambit, Justus Roux, Bluestone Review, and in the anthologies Ice Cream Secrets, Appalachia’s Last Stand, and Mountain Voices. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and was awarded a fellowship from Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise.
rhonda’S SELECTIONS
Meet Our Guest Editors for Issue 197, July-September 2021
(Submissions are open now through February at Submittable)
Faith Shearin
Guest Poetry Editor
Jen McConnell
Guest Short Fiction Editor
Faith and Jen will be accepting submissions from January 1 through February 28. Go here to read their bios and a piece of their work, and then send them your work.
prime number
: any integer other than 0 or ± 1 that is not divisible without remainder by any other integers except ± 1 and ± the integer itself (Merriam-Webster's Dictionary)
In literature: poetry and prose that is distinctive and unique (Prime Number Magazine)
Prime Number Magazine is a Press 53 publication, founded by Clifford Garstang and Kevin Morgan Watson on July 17, 2010, beginning with Issue 2 and continuing in prime numbers.