2018 Portal Prize Results
Our most heartfelt congratulations and thanks to our very first Portal Prize winner for Speculative Fiction, Elizabeth Browne, for her story “Family Mart.”
Great American Sentence Contest: The Results
We’re pleased to announce the winners, honorable mentions, and finalists from our 2nd annual Great American Sentence Contest!
Joy Williams wins PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
Joy Williams has won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
The Great American Sentence: A Contest
We’re running a Great American Sentence contest. Winner earns $300. No fee. Join us. Anyone can write a sentence.
October Staff Roundup: International Letter Writing Week
Wherein the staff shares favorite epistolary novels, poems, and collections and whether they’ve ever been waiting anxiously at a mailbox.
Staff Picks: Treasures You May Have Missed
We asked staff and friends to name books they thought the reading public may have unwittingly passed by, whether because they’re gems that have gone unnoticed in the gravel or because they “deserve” to reach a wider audience.
The Great American Sentence Contest: The Results
Our three judges read carefully (and blindly) through these entries, weighing both the beauty and economy of the words within.
A Celebration of Modernist Poetry
In June, 1915 the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. T.S. Eliot began writing it five years earlier around the age of 22 and it was his first poem published outside an educational institution.
Welcome to Easy Street
Come for the writing. Stay for the donuts. Or, hey, just come for the donuts. Regardless, we hope your weekly reading will continue to include us here at Easy Street. Because that’s where we’re gonna be.
