Volume 21 Edition 1

-20 YEARS OF STIRRING-

Founded in 1999 by Erin Elizabeth Smith, Stirring is one of the oldest, continually published online literary journals. This year we celebrate the last twenty years of thriving growth and change for this little slice of the internet. Thank you to our readers for the continued support. We look forward to the next twenty years with you.

 
Olivia Lichterman Positive Space  Overlapping video projections, 2018

Olivia Lichterman
Positive Space
Overlapping video projections, 2018

Olivia Lichterman Positive Space  Overlapping video projections, 2018

Olivia Lichterman
Positive Space
Overlapping video projections, 2018

Kelly Moore The Joy of Receiving Red Envelopes  1.5” x 1” ink, tape, acrylic, found objects on wood and canvas, 2018

Kelly Moore
The Joy of Receiving Red Envelopes
1.5” x 1”
ink, tape, acrylic, found objects on wood and canvas, 2018

Delmar & The Body is a Line Through Water


NONFICTION BY GWYNETH HENKE

 
Dana Potter First Rubbish Drawer 17" x 13" Burnt Residue Embossing, Laser-cut Chipboard, 2018

Dana Potter
First Rubbish Drawer
17" x 13"
Burnt Residue Embossing, Laser-cut Chipboard, 2018

Kelly Moore Red Village in the Mountains 12” x 12” ink on fabric and wooden stretcher bars, 2018

Kelly Moore
Red Village in the Mountains
12” x 12”
ink on fabric and wooden stretcher bars, 2018

 
Kelly Moore Chinese Dowry in Dallas 14” x 12” ink, paper, and oil on canvas, 2018

Kelly Moore
Chinese Dowry in Dallas
14” x 12”
ink, paper, and oil on canvas, 2018

There’s Just Some Girls Need Savin’




FICTION BY AMANDA MALONE

 
Dana Potter Interval Converter - Tool Set 1 15" x 11" Trace mono-type from laser-cut stencils, 2018

Dana Potter
Interval Converter - Tool Set 1
15" x 11"
Trace mono-type from laser-cut stencils, 2018

Kristin Chang’s Past Lives, Future Bodies




BOOK REVIEW BY DONNA VORREYER

 

Featured Artists

DANA POTTER - KELLY MOORE - OLIVIA LICHTERMAN - ANA PRUNDARU

Featured on cover page: Dumplings and Cupcakes for Breakfast, Kelly Moore, 2018; Vestige - Collection 1, Dana Potter, 2018; Positive Space, Olivia Lichterman, 2018; Guests, Ana Prundaru, 2011.


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Guest Editor

KATHERINE BELL

Katherine Bell is a fiction writer from Maryland who earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University, where she worked as a fiction editor for Willow Springs Literary Magazine. She currently serves as the Director of SAFTA Films with the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her short fiction has appeared in Grub Street Literary Magazine, The Fem, and Connotation Press, among others.