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J.M. Holmes
J.M. Holmes won the Burnett Howe prize for fiction at Amherst College, and received fellowships at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. He has worked in educational outreach in Iowa, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review and HOW Journal. Sceptre will publish How Are You Going To Save Yourself in August 2018.

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Fiction

October 2017

J.M. Holmes

Fiction

October 2017

My auntie Sammy had real red-velvet cake — not that she had the time to make it, bread-winning at Glaxo-Smith-Kline while my uncle Eddy...

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fiction

August 2013

How to Be an American

Will Heinrich

fiction

August 2013

Begin with a man on the beach. The sea is strangely iridescent, lighter in its lights and blacker in...

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

feature

January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

fiction

March 2015

House Proud

Amelia Gray

fiction

March 2015

It’s harder to leave your burning home after you’ve spent so much time cleaning its floors. Watching those baseboards...

 

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