Epiphany Spring/Summer 2018

by Tracy O’Neill (Editor), Hannah Tinti (Editor), Alexander Chee (Editor)

The Spring/Summer 2018 edition of Epiphany is a flip-cover double issue. On one side, you’ll find five stories, six poems, and one essay selected for this issue by Epiphany’s editors. On the other side, you’ll find work from the winners of the first annual Breakout 8 Writers Prize, offered by Epiphany and the Authors Guild. The Breakout 8 prize seeks to recognize outstanding emerging literary voices and bring visibility to the writers of our future by honoring eight student authors—both graduates and undergraduates. This year’s prize was judged by Hannah Tinti, Alexander Chee, and Tracy O’Neill.

Read, flip, repeat, enjoy!

Contributors: Anzhelina Polonskaya / Alisson Wood* / Amber Wheeler Bacon* / Amy Lee Lillard* / Andrew Wachtel / Candice Wuehle / Colin Schmidt / Collin Frazier / Edith Lee* / Elisa Gonzalez / Gabriela Wiener / Jennifer Adock / Jiaming Tang* / Josephine Blair / Lore Segal / Lucy Greaves / Marc Castel de Lucas* / Nelly Rosario / Nicole Treska / Rasheeda Saka* / Terese Svoboda / Yesenia Montilla / Yuxi Lin*

(* indicates Breakout 8 Writers Prize winner)

181 pages, Paperback

Published May 3, 2018

Reviews

[Pearse Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fine issue! The poems really blew me away, they were my favorite parts. I'm so happy they were able to elevate undergrad writers to their stature with such great judges, design, and a variety of stories about identity, sexuality, and comings-of-age, instead of the white 45-year-old stares at a tree stories we sometimes get. Epiphany seems like it has some young, diverse readers and I really appreciate that. I wasn't drawn in by a lot of the stories or think they'll be that memorable, but that's fine. I bought this for 50 cents at the Friends of the Library Book Sale. I wonder who gave it away.

Connection: I worked at Tin House Summer Workshop 2018 where Chee taught, and I was TOTALLY going to submit to Breakout 8 before the deadline passed as my short story failed to make it to their slush in time.