The Literary Journal of Johns Hopkins University.

Volume 18 will feature THR’s signature blend of literature, culture, criticism, public-facing scholarship, and the arts across the year’s four issues.

he first issue you’ll receive, 18.1, will include an interview with featured cover artist John Waters himself, alongside an art folio by Layo Bright, introduced by Karen Wilkin; Rafael Alberti translated from the Spanish by John Murillo; a personal essay by Donald Quist; Hannah Fenster on performance; Jean McGarry on books; Eileen G’Sell on film; new fiction by A. J. Bermudez, Thea Chacamaty, and Nnamdi Oguike; new poetry by Chad Abushanab, Bruce Bond, Hedgie Choi, Gustav Parker Hibbett, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Nicholas Montemarano, and Alexis Sears; and the winners of the Stephen Dixon Fiction Prize (Katy Gathright, selected by Jami Attenberg) and the Anne Frydman Translation Prize (Deanna Cachoian-Schanz translating a photographic novel by Shushan Avagyan and lucine talalyan from the Armenian, selected by Nirvana Tanoukhi).

Editor: Dora Malech
Publisher: Hopkins Press
Page Count: 158pp
Size: 8 x 10
Notes: perfect bound, b/w
Date of Publication: Winter 2025