Shadowplay seeks work that dances in liminal spaces, that illuminates the pieces of our world which otherwise go unseen. Send us your light and your dark.
An annual print literary journal designed and edited by graduate students at the University of Arkansas - Monticello, Shadowplay welcomes submissions in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We accept all artistic voices, and diversity is welcomed; we also nominate for the Pushcart Prize. Shadowplay is available through bookstores, online retailers, libraries, and academic institutions.
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Editor-in-Chief, Christian Chase Garner (he/him), is a writer and exceptionally amateur baker from the Arkansas River Valley. His work has appeared in MAYDAY, Cleaver Magazine, 3Elements Review, Blood Tree Literature, Exposition Review, Stirring, Book of Matches, and Sleet Magazine, among others.
Shadowplay Website Layout and Design by Christian Chase Garner.
Poetry Editor, Kalina Smith, is a high school English teacher in Northeast Arkansas. She studied English and Creative Writing at Arkansas Tech University. Kalina's poetry and creative nonfiction have previously been published in Nebo: A Literary Journal, The Ignatian, FLARE: The Flagler Review, The Cackling Kettle, ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, and RedRoseThorns, and has work forthcoming in The Font and Porcupine.
Prose Editor, Christopher Bowen, is the author of the chapbook We Were Giants, the novella When I Return to You, I Will Be Unfed, and the nonfiction Debt. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Competition and honorable mention in the 45th New Millennium Writing Awards in the nonfiction category. His short story collection, The Things They Forgot to Tell Us When They Left, is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press.
Faculty Advisor, Mary Meriam, studied poetry at Columbia University (MFA) and Bennington College (BA). She works as an editor and publisher of lesbian poetry and art and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas - Monticello. Her most recent poetry collection is Pools of June (Exot Books, 2022). Her poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Literary Matters, Poetry, Post Road, Prelude, Rattle, Subtropics, and The Poetry Review.
Founding Editor, Jonelle Grace Lipscomb, is a writer and photographer living in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her work has appeared in Writing our World anthologies, The Arkansas Review, and The Diamond Line.
Shadowplay Issue 1 Cover and Website Photo: “Trees and Moon” by Jonelle Grace Lipscomb. Originally published in The Diamond Line, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville.
