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Current Issue - Steam Ticket Volume 26 (2023)
Vol. 26 includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from writers in 23 states and two foreign countries, featuring established writers such as Charles Harper Webb, Katharyn Machan, Brad Rose, Bart Edelman, and a diverse range of emerging writers. This issue also contains work by featured artist Cole Thompson.
To purchase a print copy of Vol. 26, see info at the bottom of this page; you can also view this issue as a PDF below.
Past Issues
Volume 25 (2022)
Volume 25 (2022)
Vol. 25 features a craft talk from U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, as well as excerpts from craft talks given by numerous writers who have visited UWL over the years such as Brian Turner, Jaki Shelton Green, John McNally, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Robert Lopez, Sam Ligon, and Max Garland. This issue also features new work by authors from six countries and 22 U.S. States, including work from Ukrainian poet Dmitry Bilzniuk, award-winning authors and writers published for the first time.
Volume 24 (2021)
Volume 24 (2021)
Featured Selections:
“Magical Mysogyny Shades” - Alexia Walz
“In Defense of Twilight” - Corrine Kaleta
Two essays from the Bernatovich Jail Literacy Program
Two poems by Rose Davey
Two prose poems by Brad Rose
“On Literary Citizenship” - Jaki Shelton Green
Volume 23 (2020)
Volume 23 (2020)
Featured Selections:
Poetry:
‘uncoupled’ – Peter Engen
‘zero’ – Peter Engen
‘Sunshower’ – Alaina Steffes
‘Hibernation Season’ – Alaina Steffes
‘Night Janitor’ – William Stobb
Fiction:
‘REO’ – Emily Rux
‘Chrysalis’ – Mackie Schwertfeger
‘Hot Lunch’ – Nick Yokanovich
Nonfiction:
‘Real Surreal’ – William Stobb
Volume 22 (2019)
Volume 22 (2019)
Featured Selections:
‘Senescence’ – Kylie Mullen
‘The Last Christmas on Breconshire Drive’ – B.J. Hollars
‘Crow on a Fence’ – David Blackey
‘On The Jetty’ – Valerie Griggs
Volume 21 (2018)
Volume 20 (2017)
Volume 20 (2017)
Featured Selections:
‘With Coyotes Watching’ by Nick Alti
Three Poems by Karla Huston
Craft Talk: Robert Lopez and Sam Ligon
Volume 19 (2016)
Volume 19 (2016)
Featured Selections:
‘Red Emma’ by Linda Scheller
‘Fairy Tale’ by Katharyn Howd Machan
‘How the Shyness Unfolds’ by Cathryn Cofell-Mutschler
‘Carnivore’ by Gary Hanna
‘Funeral’ by Trent Busch
‘Sonnet XII’ by Chris Bullard
‘Bubbles’ by Mark Defoe
‘Classics by Request’ by Bruce Taylor
‘The Blackboard’ by Susan Richardson
‘Noir’ by Katharyn Howd Machan
‘Kitchen’ by Greg Moglia
‘Madonna on a Country Road’ by Joe Taylor
Volume 18 (2015)
Volume 18 (2015)
Featured Selections:
‘How to End a Life’ by Alisha Casey
‘Your Hands are an Indigo City’ by Sean Thomas Dougherty
‘Happy Childhood’ by Wade Bentley
‘Cento Sonnet for a Violin Master Class’ by Philip Dacey
‘An Auden Lecture in the Age of Situation Ethics’ by Terry Savoie
Volume 17 (2014)
Volume 17 (2014)
Featured Selections:
‘Cross Dresser’ by Cindy Zelman
‘Common Ground’ by Lee Chilcote
‘Green Revolution’ by Ellen Wright
Volume 16 (2013)
Volume 15 (2012)
Volume 14 (2011)
Volume 13 (2010)
Volume 12 (2009)
Volume 11 (2008)
Volume 10 (2007)
Volume 9 (2006)
Volume 8 (2005)
Volume 7 (2004)
Volume 6 (2003)
Volume 5 (2002)
Volume 4 (2001)
Volume 3 (1997)
Volume 2 (1996)
Volume 1 (1996)
Purchase Issues
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