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.
Prose Editor, Lisa Yarnell, is a writing instructor at Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa, Florida. She has been a waitress, an office manager, and many other things, but all along, she has written stories.Prose Editor, Meghan Schwend, is an English and History graduate from Arizona State University. She has written fantasy stories since age eight, and she currently has a dark fantasy manuscript under revision. Meghan pursues voice acting on the side and teaches both ESL and English 102. Her interests are broad, including: birdwatching, cross-stitching, gaming (video and TCG), Japanese anime/manga, and language learning. She lives with her husband, five Button Quail, and Green Cheek Conure in Georgia.
Poetry Editor, Sarah Wofford, is a born and raised Arkansan with an English degree from Arkansas State University. She considers herself to be an excellent example of what happens when 1970s punk rock sensibilities meet the homemaking habits of the 1930s. She quilts, sews, knits, hand-embroiders and more, all with a mohawk whose color changes on a whim. When not writing or otherwise crafting, she can be found playing with her nieces and nephews or her pets: a mutt named Tupelo and a tortoiseshell cat named Buffy. She likes spaceships, dragons, and post-it notes.
Poetry Editor, Sam Jackson, is a Professor of English at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, TX. His writing interests are a mashup of working-class poetry and fantasy prose based on his experiences growing up in the Arkansas River Valley. Outside of writing, you can usually find Sam in the kitchen making cathead biscuits and other recipes handed down by the cooks in his family.
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.
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.
