The Meadow is a free, annual print and online journal of Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, publishing works from new and established writers and artists and one of the few literary journals in the country publishing students alongside well-known authors. Submissions are open every year from August 15 thru January 15. This newest issue features nonfiction by Trinity Smith and Landa wo, fiction by Billy Thompson, Kendall Klym, S. Frederic Liss, David W. Berner, and Laura Lambie, and poetry by Robert Wrigley, Jan Beatty, Ace Boggess, Dani Putney, Audrey Buccola, Melanie Diaz, Moon Grizzle, Jason D. Benjamin, Rachael A. Trotter, Brytlee Hansen, Hunter Brown, Isai Diaz, Christopher Linforth, Kimberly Ann Priest, Gabrielle Patterson, among many more contributors rounding out this reading experience. A beautifully crafted publication to savor slowly and deeply through the year or gobbled up in one sitting!

The Meadow is the annual literary journal of Truckee Meadows Community College. In this 2024 issue, readers will discover fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selected from the best student work alongside national contributors such as Meghan Sterling, Mark Sanders, Katheryn Levy, George Perrault, Kathy Nelson, Richard Robbins, Janelle Cordero, Daniel Edward Moore, Max Stone, January Santoso, Lenny DellaRocca, Natalie Solmer, Deidre Sullivan, as well as many others wrapped in the mesmerizing, mythical cover art, Icarus, by Kateryna Bortsova.

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The 2023 issue of the nationally-acclaimed literary magazine The Meadow captures readers with the cover photo, Lichen Fang, by Mike Clasen. Once inside, featured writers will continue to captivate, with poetry by Stacy Boe Miller, Joanne Mallari, Jeffrey Alfier, Mark Sanders, Lora Robinson, Christine Kwon, Paul Ilechko, Kathryn Levy, Jana Harris, Lori Howe, Richard Robbins, and many others. The issue also includes four essays by Lori White, Kian Razi, David Stewart, and Zachary Greenhill. The Meadow is produced by Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, and is currently open for submissions.

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Hailing from Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada, The Meadow has established itself as a leading annual literary publication with works being recognized by Utne Read, the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Best American Sports Writing anthology, and the Best American Essay anthology. Co-Editors Lindsay Wilson and Robert Lively have maintained one of the few literary journals in the country that publishes their students alongside experienced writers and artists and involves students in the production as well as board oversight of operations. Add to this: the publication is completely free. Print copies are distributed on campus, in the community, and to contributors, and a complete copy of the publication is available to read online via Flipbook platform. I only just started to read the 2022 edition, and am already taken by the opening poems: “The Ambulance Took Away Another Person Today” by Alice “Lucky” Lacerenza, “filaments” by Robin Gow, “plenty” and “big love” by Kolbe Riney, “Minor Miracles in Time Travel” and “Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief” by Patrick Meeds, “A Tooth is a Tree” by Matthew Burnside, and “The Walk” by Merlin Ural Rivera. With 74 contributors, this is the kind of magazine to “carry along” or bookmark to read whenever you can spare a free moment or hunker into and be swept away page after page.