Issues

Issue #1: Fall 2011
Including fiction by Jen Michalski, Emily Kiernan, and Mandy Taggart; nonfiction by James Claffey and John FitzGerald; and poetry by Brian Russell, Steven Leyva, Georgia Kreiger, and more…

Issue #2: Winter 2011
Fiction by Paul Lisicky, Christine Fadden, and Jenn Rossmann; nonfiction by Alice Hunter, William Henderson, and Beth Lefebvre; poetry by Gregg Mosson, Daniel Romo, and Mary Stone Dockery; and more…

Issue #3: Spring 2012
Fiction by Roxane Gay, Aubrey Hirsch and Shauna Gilligan. Nonfiction by Julie Lakehomer, and Wayne Scheer. Poetry by Jesse Ko, Christine Langill, and more. Plus, interviews with Melissa Broder and Ron Tanner; the start of the Cobalt Publisher Series, and featured artist Heather Day. Read on…

Issue #4: Summer 2012
Fiction by Dave K, Kevin Jones, Matt Wilkinson and Caryn Coyle; five works of nonfiction, including Curtis Smith and Ginna Howard; poetry by Jen Karetnick, David Dodd Lee, Panika Dillon and more. Then we’ve got Brian Spears, interviewed by Tabitha Surface; and Adam Robinson from Publishing Genius is interviewed for the second installment of the Publisher Series. Dig in…

Issue #5: Fall 2012
Fiction by James Claffey, Henry Alley, and Emily Glossner Johnson; nonfiction by Abby Higgs, Bonnie Morris, and LaTanya McQueen; three poems by Todd Kaneko; other poetry by Kevin Stoy, Jordan Godfrey, and Robert Balun; an interview with the incredible Michael Kimball; and more…

Issue #6: Winter 2012
Poetry from Nikki Thompson, Don Thompson, Caroline Shepard, Gail C. DiMaggio; fiction from Timmy Reed, Audrey Chin, Katie Coyle and Chad Sanderson; and nonfiction from Tracy Krulik and Jessica Dur Taylor. Also, an interview with PYM author Mat Johnson, and Lisa Marie Basile of Patasola Press joins Cobalt’s Publisher Series.

Issue #7: Spring 2013
In the last issue of this format (we’re changing things up, starting June 2013), you can find poetry from Kevin Heaton, Elizabeth Bodi, Courtney Hitson and James Cook; fiction by Cheryl Diane Kidder, Samuel Sattin, Estela González and Brad Kelly; and nonfiction by Emily Mullin, Carl Glickman, Beth Baker and Alison Frase Reavis. Also, Andrew Keating interviews Amber Sparks (author of May We Shed These Human Bodies) and J.A. Tyler (Publisher Series: Mud Luscious Press).

Issue #8: Summer 2013
In our first poetry-focused issue, we have new work by Angela Cummings, Heather Bell, Brendan Walsh, Amy K. Rowland, Hillary Kobernick, John C. Morrison, Erica Bodwell, Rebecca Shepard and John Grey. Also, fiction from Steven Gowin and Edward Hamlin; and nonfiction from Danielle Ariano. This being the final issue of our second year, we chose to feature two distinguished authors from our first issue who have recently won major literary prizes: Jen Michalski and Brian Russell. Read exclusive interviews and excerpts from their award-winning books. Finally, Copper Canyon Press joins us for the most recent edition of the Publisher Series.

Issue #9: Fall 2013 – Prose Issue
Fiction from Shauna Gilligan, Debora Brasket, B. Rose Huber, Rob Schultz, Olvard Liche Smith and Kane Klemic; nonfiction from Sarah Earle, Kristina Moriconi and Brenda Rankin. Also featuring a Publisher Series interview with Bronwen Hruska of SOHO press and excerpts from new releases by James Claffey and Michael Landweber. Oh yeah, and the fiction and nonfiction shortlists for the 2013 Cobalt Writing Prize. Check it out.