Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Issue

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Last week, I received in the mail what I thought to be an extra-plump issue of Crazyhorse. It was, in fact, two issues of Crazyhorse — the newest single issue, plus a special issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the journal. I know of more journals that have struggled in recent years than I know of ones that haven’t, and 50 years of publishing for a literary journal is indeed something to celebrate. The issue features six stories, two of which I’ve read before and am psyched to see included here: Karen Brown’s “Galatea,” (chosen by Antonya Nelson for the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize and included in 2008’s Best American Short Stories) and Amelia Kahaney’s “The Temp,” which I loved more than I can say, and I think should be read by anybody who’s ever filled out a weekly time sheet for a temp agency.

The issue includes other fiction by Becky Hagenston, Chrissy Kolayam, Nicholas Montemarano, and John Tait. There’s a Dinty Moore essay, and poems by a slew of wonderful writers including John Ashberry, Robert Bly, Norman Dubie, Albert Goldbarth, Arielle Greenberg, Kevin Prufer, Mary Ruefle,  Dara Wier, and Dean Young. The cover features a nice spread of past Crazyhorse covers. I don’t know if this issue is a gift to lucky subscribers or if it can be ordered individually, but it’s definitely something I recommend you get your hands on and read. Congrats to Crazyhorse on 50 impressive years of literary publishing.

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Laurie Ann Cedilnik is a writer living in Houston by way of Queens. She has an MFA from The University of Houston, where she was an Inprint C. Glen Cambor Fellow and Editor of Gulf Coast. Her stories can be found in the Colorado Review, Epoch, West Branch, The Antioch Review, Pleiades, Cimarron Review, The Rumpus, Brevity, Hobart, and Fifth Wednesday, and her story collection Queens’ Finest was one of two runners-up for the Flannery O’Connor Prize. Laurie’s writing has received awards including a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Bobet Fellowship, and Gwen Frostic Prizes in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Laurie is a graduate of Wellesley College and Hunter College High School, and has taught creative writing at Loyola University (New Orleans), Grand Valley State, and Western Michigan University, where she earned a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing.

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