(a Press 53 Online Publication)

ISSUE 223, APRIL — JUNE 2022

In this issue we have our winners of the free, monthly 53-Word Story Contest, poetry selections from guest poetry editor Adrian Rice, short fiction selections from guest short fiction editor Dennis McFadden, and to poets and two short fiction authors showcased in the Press 53 Spotlight. But first we’d like to make the following announcement….

 

The 2023 Press 53 Award for Poetry
is now open for entries!

First Prize $1,000 cash advance

Publication & 50 Copies

Deadline: July 31

Get all the information on how to enter

 

Winners of our FREE, monthly 53-Word Story Contest

A free, monthly writing competition. Join our email list to get your prompt on the first day of each month.
Write a 53-word story about (prompt)
Send your story by the fifteenth (15th) day to 53wordstory@gmail.com

January (a dynamic duo): “Craving for Two” by Nina Miller

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 the first two months of each quarter. Here are the guest editors for Issue 223, April-June 2022.

Guest Editor for Poetry

ADRIAN RICE

Adrian Rice is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA in English & Politics, and an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature. He has delivered writing workshops, readings, and lectures throughout Europe and the United States. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Mason’s Tongue, which was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Literary Prize, and nominated for the Irish Times Prize for Poetry. Adrian now lives with his wife and young son in Hickory, North Carolina. He is a Lecturer, First Year Seminar, at Appalachian State University, where he is also working to complete his Doctoral studies.

Adrian’s Poetry Selections

Guest Editor for Short Fiction

Dennis McFadden

Dennis McFadden grew up in Brookville, a small town in western Pennsylvania very much like the fictional Hartsgrove of Jimtown Road. A graduate of Allegheny College and a retired project manager for the state of New York, he lives and writes in a cedar-shingled cottage called Summerhill in the woods of upstate New York. His stories have appeared in dozens of publications, including The Missouri Review, New England Review, The Sewanee Review, Crazyhorse, The Antioch Review, Prairie Fire, The Massachusetts Review, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and The Best American Mystery Stories. His first short story collection, Hart’s Grove, was published by Colgate University Press in 2010. In 2018 he was awarded a Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.

Dennis’s Short Fiction Selections

Press 53 Spotlight

In each issue of Prime Number Magazine we showcase four authors from our publisher, Press 53. Our intent is to introduce our readers to more great writing, and to help our publisher find more readers for these writers and their books. Enjoy! (And if you do purchase a book, use code P53D20 at checkout for 20% off your order. That’s more than enough to cover shipping!)

Meet Our Guest Editors for Issue 229,
October-December 2022

(Submissions are open now through June 30 at Submittable)

Michael Hettich

Guest Editor for Poetry

Gerry Wilson

Guest Editor for Short Fiction

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