We’re excited to announce that our 2022 issue (vol 61!) has been released!

Get your personal copy here:  https://epay.tcu.edu/press_descant

The rates are $12 US and $15 international.

2022 Prize Winners have been posted on our “Awards” page, and the Table of Contents is available below!

 

2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Fiction by John Fulton

• • Wedding Party

 

Poems by Jim Daniels

• • New Music for Silent Films
  • Back at Sixty
  • Grad School Debutante Ball
  • Made in Detroit
  • The Sixth Sense

 

Poems by Claudia Schatz

• • French Kissing
  • Awaiting the End of Your Workday

 

Fiction by Julie Zuckerman

• • Rehabilitation

 

Poem by Gordon Taylor

• • Swipe Left

 

Poem by Joelle Schumacher

• • If Nothing Else We’ ll Eat Well

 

Poem by Pamela Hobart Carter

• • Dear One, You are soft

 

Fiction by Martin Penman

• • Men from Delaware

 

Poem by Darren C. Demaree

• • in defense of the goat that continues to wander towards the certain doom of the cliff #36

Poem by Paul David Adkins

• • Arthur Herman Bremer Upbraids Himself When He Missed an Attempt to Assassinate President Richard M. Nixon Due to Spending Too Much Time Brushing His Teeth and Concerning Himself With His Appearance if Arrested for the Shooting

 

Fiction by Patrick J. Murphy

• • The Dying of the Light

 

Poems by Su Hwang

• • that which binds
  • electric jellyfish

 

Poems by Nnadi Samuel

• • Nature knows a little about Slave Trade
  • A Boy ago
  • Aye! Gulorbo
  • Erasure
  • A Wreckful Planting of small Pockets of Thirst

 

Fiction by Linda Woolford

• • A New Life

 

Featured Artist, Andrew Binkley

• • Biography
  • Artist’s Statement

 

Featured Poet, Arthur Smith (1948-2018)

• • In Tribute
  • Jack Gilbert’s Classroom
  • Mojave
  • Something to Hold

 

Fiction by Vaughn Wright

• • Most Any Other Night

Poems by Bethany Reid

• • The Daffodils
  • Practicing Scales

 

Poem by Colin Jeffrey Morris

• • Emerson in Florida

 

Fiction by Wendy BooydeGraaff

• • Surgeon

 

Poem by Satoshi Iwai

• • Place for Winter

 

Poems by Elisabeth Murawski

• • My Wife in Joy and Sorrow
  • Restless
  • Isolated

 

Fiction by Cristina Hartmann

• • The Treasure Room

 

Poem by Jen Ross

• • Reluctant bride

 

Poem by Despy Boutris

• • Another Poem on Want

 

Fiction by Michael McGuire

• • Centenario

 

Contributor Notes    

 

2022 Award Winners

Selected by Guest Judge Bryn Chancellor