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by Azeezah Adekanmbi
Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.
The Women We Inherit: Ayodele Olofintuade’s ‘Swallow’ and the Reclamation of Queer Histories
Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.
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by Jake Bartman
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
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by Rick Magee
For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers – Keetje Kuipers
For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration
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by Alex Tretbar
For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you
Battalion Shaped Girl – Temperance Aghamohammadi
For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you
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by Jake Bartman
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
The High Heaven – Joshua Wheeler
The High Heaven strays far from southern New Mexico. And yet, part of its power derives from the ways in which the region remains present.
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by Rick Magee
For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers – Keetje Kuipers
For Kuipers, the body is the departure point for exploration
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by Alex Tretbar
For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you
Battalion Shaped Girl – Temperance Aghamohammadi
For Aghamohammadi, sensory input is more than data; it is life’s performance of a song by way of you
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by Rebecca Hussey
How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?
Absence — Issa Quincy
How does one write a novel about things that are not there? About the missing, the lost, the absent? Or is this the only kind of writing there is?
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w/ Lexi Kent-Monning
How much of our own life do we try to forget, force away? Wendy C. Ortiz lives in those moments. You can see it in her book Excavation, which details her high school teacher’s grooming of her, as it escalates into a full blown relationship; to Hollywood Notebook, a daily record of her twenty-something self […]
Wendy C. Ortiz
How much of our own life do we try to forget, force away? Wendy C. Ortiz lives in those moments. You can see it in her book Excavation, which details her high school teacher’s grooming of her, as it escalates into a full blown relationship; to Hollywood Notebook, a daily record of her twenty-something self […]
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w/ Tanisha Tekriwal
You have to let in the world. I have to let in the world in order to get a book to the point that it’s even ready, because I really rely on my readers to help shape it.
Lydi Conklin
You have to let in the world. I have to let in the world in order to get a book to the point that it’s even ready, because I really rely on my readers to help shape it.
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w/ Miles Mikofsky
I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom…might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.
Madeline McDonnell
I’d love to think that Lonesome Ballroom…might prove one of many “weird” books that make our broader tradition stranger and therefore stronger, more strapping.
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w/ Kristin Sanders
The aesthetic that attracts me is trash and discarded stuff. That’s the rat seduction.
Elizabeth Hall
The aesthetic that attracts me is trash and discarded stuff. That’s the rat seduction.
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by Azeezah Adekanmbi
Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.
The Women We Inherit: Ayodele Olofintuade’s ‘Swallow’ and the Reclamation of Queer Histories
Our history is in the bodies they tried to straighten, the stories they would not write, the lives they refused to archive.
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by Corley Miller
We were kids together. And now we are not.
Elegy Already: Millennials at Middle Age
We were kids together. And now we are not.
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by Erin Evans
An oral history is a unique form of nonfiction where, from the beginning, we are given no promise of truth and the editors make no claims toward a clear, ideologically-specific thesis about their subjects.
Mouthing Off: Oral History as an Anticapitalist Form
An oral history is a unique form of nonfiction where, from the beginning, we are given no promise of truth and the editors make no claims toward a clear, ideologically-specific thesis about their subjects.
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by Olena Jennings
This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the […]
The Appearance of Urban Memory in Ukrainian Poetics
This essay was originally published in the Full Stop Quarterly “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities,” edited by Michelle Chan Schmidt. Subscribe at our Patreon page to get access to this and future issues, also available for purchase here. Ukrainian poetics function as a mode of defense against disappearance and a mode of remembrance in the city. I will address the […]
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by Michael Schapira
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
20 4 420: Irie Edition
The following playlist is humbly submitted for your listening pleasure from Full Stop, your full service literary journal. In
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by The Editors
This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.
Call for Pitches
This special issue of the FULL STOP QUARTERLY will aim to hold folklore as a prism through which to view connection, the self, and the future. . . . It will explore folklore in and as literature, as process, and as performance.
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by The Editors
In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?
Call for Pitches
In times like ours, times of fracture, depravity and upheaval—times which are really not that different than any other time on earth, except for the speed and scale at which violence is exercised—what is the value of art?
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by Michelle Chan Schmidt
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”
Dis(-)appearing Cities or: How I Learned to Stop Walking and Love the Empire
Read the introduction to our latest issue of the Full Stop Quarterly, “Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities.”