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Review: The Fluid Body of Fiction: FAT SWIM by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Jesse Lacy

View of gallery showing video projected on one wall and on the other side the Souvenir of Access artwork, a row of keychains on blue. The video still projected on the wall shows two boys or young men's heads sticking out of what looks like ocean water.

Activating the Archive

Kat Thompson

Photo of Danny Eisenberg

Announcing the 2026 Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize Winner

Announcing the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner: Anne de Marcken

IS IT MY JOB THEN TO MAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL?

Amber Adams

Three Stories

Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

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