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Ploughshares' Fall 2023 Issue is out now! Edited by Ladette Randolph, the Fall 2023 Issue features prose by Anthony David, Parul Kapur, John Keeble, Diane Hinton Perry, Austin Woerner, Nafis Shafizadeh, Wiam El-Tamami, Jamie Lyn Smith, and Jim Shepard.
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