Winter 2025

ISSUE 102

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Featured

Elephant Man 2028: A Political Horror

Fiction by John Pozer

Little America

Memoir by Nancy Newman

wet market

Poem by Erin Vosters

Introducing subTerrain #102: General Issue

Issue #102 features commentary by Peter Babiak; fiction by M.W. Miller, Kristina Rothstein, and John Pozer; a memoir by Nancy Newman; an interview with novelist Joseph Kakwinokanasum; poetry by Bob Hicok, and Erin Vosters; an excerpt from long-form poem by Vera Hadzic; and non-fiction by Charlie Smith, excerpted from an anthology forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2026.

Plus our regular column Chuffed About Chapbooks by Kevin Spenst, and Matthew Firth’s The Crank & File.

Read on for the Lush Triumphant Literary Award winners for fiction: Jill M. Talbot, and Kimberly Alcock; and for poetry: Jill Aalhus.

Plus our regular book review column with coverage of new books by Tamara Jong; Tawahum Bige; Ben Faulker; Russel Smith; David Berry; Susan Swan; Henry Osborne; Kristjana Gunnars; Diana Hayes; and Christine Estima.

Cover and interior paintings by featured artist Laura Zerebeski.