NAT. BRUT

We’re thrilled to share this news: These incredibly talented and generous literary stars are part of our team! Give them a shout!

Congrats, Tony Wei Ling, Laura Bullard, Kris Bernard, Diamond Forde, Serena Solin, Ashira Shirali, Blake Planty, and Lira Samanta!

This work of short fiction is included in our current issue — and we’re happy to feature contributor @maudeling, who writes stories about identity, kinship, and desire. She majored in gender studies at Harvard College.

Fiction readers needed!

Nat. Brut is currently looking for three Fiction Readers to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for reading our fiction submissions with love and care. You’ll also recommend pieces for publication to our Fiction Editor. Click the link below to learn more about joining Nat. Brut. Like all positions at Nat. Brut, this opportunity is unfortunately unpaid.

Our “Beautiful Open Prairie” folio features this whirling, rhythmic poem, “Funnel Clouds.” Poet Tara E. Jay grew up in trailer parks — she is from Indiana, and now lives in the Detroit metro area, with recent work in Nashville Review, BOAAT Journal, Whiskey Island, and elsewhere.

Our current issue features this work of short fiction by sŭng, a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Korea. They are the author of What About the Rest of Your Life (Perfect Day Publishing) and Flowers Are for Pussies (Ghost City Press). Their work has appeared in Rattle, Kweli Journal, Contrary, The James Franco Review, The Wanderer, and Crab Fat Magazine.

Start your weekend with this poem, “One, another”, which is featured in our current issue. Poet Ash Durrance is a first-year MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University, where she received the Peck Fellowship upon her acceptance into the program. She holds an MA in English and Creative Writing from Auburn University. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.

This powerful piece by Lo Kwa Mei-en is featured in a folio set inside our current issue. She is the author of Yearling (Alice James Books), The Bees Make Money in the Lion (CSUPC), and two chapbooks, The Romances (The Lettered Streets Press) and Two Tales (Bloom Books). She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This hybrid piece — “Distance and Weight” — is beautifully folded into our current issue. Its author, Rachel D.L., is an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the recipient of the Sociologist for Women in Society’s 2017 undergraduate social action award for her writing and public speaking on the topic of childhood sexual abuse. She writes about disability justice on the blog of Rooted in Rights and has had creative nonfiction and poetry published in Anomaly, The Journal, Colorado Review, and Columbia College Chicago Young Author’s Blog.

Our current issue features an excellent selection of fiction — start your week with this piece by Nicasio Andres Reed, “All the Gifts that Remain.”

Reed is a Filipino-American writer and poet whose work has appeared in venues such as Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, and Lightspeed. He's currently pursuing an MA in creative writing at the University of the Philippines-Diliman.

The folio in our current issue, “Beautiful Open Prairie,” features this piece by Julianne Neely. She received her MFA degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship, the 2017 John Logan Poetry Prize, and a Schupes Prize for Poetry. Her chapbook 'The Body Beside Herself' is out now from Slope Editions. 

Would you like to be Nat. Brut’s 2019 Artist-in-Nonresidence? It's like an artist residency — but not. This year, we're looking at you, Greensboro, North Carolina!

If selected, you'll get a month’s worth of gift cards to cafés around the Piedmont Triad, activating the region as your workplace!

All or part of the work you produce during the residency will be published in Issue 14 of Nat. Brut in May 2020.

Past winners include Ayqa Khan (2016), Oliver Luo (2017), and Grace Suh (2018).

Applications close August 9!

Begin your week with Sam Allen Wright’s poem from our Beautiful Open Prairie folio! Wright is an Assistant Professor of English at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in English from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.