The Fall 2024 issue of Arts & Letters will be its final issue, as Founding Editor Martin Lammon writes in his “With Gratitude” to readers, “After 25 years, this is the final issue of Arts & Letters, which I founded in the spring of 1999.” Having stepped down in 2014, Lammon notes, “I wrote a farewell essay in which I addressed the history of the journal’s first 15 years. [. . . ] On this occasion, then, I do not say farewell. Instead, again, I say thank you.”

Closing out the magazine’s 25 year history, the Fall 2024 issue features the 2024 Arts & Letters Annual Prize Winners, Siavash Saadlou, Liza Katz Duncan, and Faith Shearin, as well as new poetry by Bruce Bond, Ian Hall, Caroline King, Suphil Lee Park, Matt Schroeder, Brenda Taulbee, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, Michael Waters; fiction by Theron Montgomery; creative nonfiction by Joseph Bathanti, Emma Coomey, Tatiana Hollier, Angela Townsend; and flash by Maya Dobjensky, Joy Juliet Gallagher, Tyler McAndrew, and Sarah Seybold.

The Arts & Letters 25th Anniversary Issue (#47) was published as a special double issue in January, featuring the journal’s annual prizewinners in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and ‘unclassifiable’ genre. The issue includes “Willowbrook,” Kristin W. Davis’s multi-voiced essay on grief and loss in the shadow of the now-defunct State School on Staten Island, and Sophia Khan’s “Cells,” a striking flash piece focused on the body’s mysteries. Plus new poems from Todd Davis, former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, and Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn; and new prose from Laura Cruser and Gila Green.

For a quarter-century, from its graduate student- and creative writing faculty-staffed quarters at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Arts & Letters has sought to print, in handsome, holdable issues, a diversity of work that is timely and that offers nothing less than the writer’s soul on the page. For further information, visit https://artsandletters.gcsu.edu