Recent work
Issue 18.1 features work from Matthew Baker, John Blair, Ronda Piszk Broatch, Brad Crenshaw, Deirdre Lockwood, Donna Miscolta, Erwin Ponce, Nina Smilow, Melissa Studdard, and Michael Thériault.
2022 Bodice Ripper Contest
Pacifica is proud to present our 2022 Bodice Ripper Contest, judged by Peter Mountford! Winner receives $500 cash monies and publication in Pacifica. For details, how we’re defining “Bodice Ripper,” and how to submit, check out our submission page.
Issue #14
PROSE
Rita Ciresi Some Things You Can Ask Me /// Jen Corrigan Accommodating /// Ryan Habermeyer The Inheritors /// Tyler Sones The Right Place /// Emily Townsend There’s Nothing Past This /// Francine Witte When Zac, 32, Strolls in IRL
POETRY
Ellen Adams searched /// Yvonne Amey The Way I Can’t Breathe When I Think of You /// Josh Bettinger Waltz of the White Bird A Cloud Against the Sky /// Nicholas Brown Anyone Going Already Knows What’s Gone /// Erika Jo Brown Delovely /// Kristene Kaye Brown All My Lottery Tickets Are Duds /// Charlotte Covey What I’ve Learned /// Teri Ellen Cross Davis A Black Woman Gets a Window Seat on Aer Lingus /// Darren C. Demaree bone requires bone #13-15 /// Rita Feinstein Persephone Waits for Spring /// Heikki Huotari Another Aftershock /// Denise Jarrott Big Stone Lake /// Patrick Kindig summer, like a nosebleed /// Mingpei Li Still Life With Splenectomy /// Autumn McClintock Taxol /// Mary Mussman Rue du Cherche-Medi /// Megan Paranich The Industry of Edmonton /// Kelly R. Samuels Perceived Distance /// John Sibley Williams Brevity
2018 FICTION CONTEST WINNER + HONORABLE MENTION
Kathryn Hill Berried (W)
Rebecca Keller Experimental Methods (HM)
2018 POETRY CONTEST WINNER
Tracy May Fuad An Abridged History of Buttons
ART
Ashley Kuo & Nicci Yin /// Dacdac