BROAD STREET:
a magazine of
true stories
Our 2016 double issue, "Maps & Legends," takes a tour around the hollow earth (see cover--yes, some people think the earth is shaped like a big napkin ring). Explore samples of the essays, poetry, and artwork by clicking here:
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I'm proud to be one of the founding editors--and the official editorial director--of this nonfiction magazine of reflective reporting, memoir, poetry, interview, and belles lettres.
We believe there are many ways of telling a true story--through a lyrical essay, a researched article, a narrative poem, a photo essay, an interview. We feature them all and are particularly interested in work that rises above "Hey, this happened to me" into "This happened to me and it engages with the greater outside world because ..."
We have published themed issues titled "Dangerous Territory," "Hunt, Gather," "Bedeviled," "Maps & Legends," "Small Things, Partial Cures," "Rivals & Players," and "Birth, School, Work, Death."
International writers and artists in our pages have included
Robert Alter
Yehuda Amichai
Julie Anderson
Shalom Auslander
Kathleen de Azevedo
Ron Block
Roger Camp
Bea Chang
Alan Cheuse
Susann Cokal
Walter Cummins
Colleen Curran
Memye Curtis Tucker
Tyler Darden
TyRuben Ellingson
Josh George
Peter Grandbois
Marilyn Grigas
Michael Griffith
Katharine Haake
Valley Haggard
Lise Haines
Kristina Hakanson
Gunver Hasselbalch
Ramsey Hootman
Chad Hunt
Masami Inoue
Tama Janowitz
Deborah Jiang-Stein
Thomas E. Kennedy
Harry Kollatz, Jr.
Daniel M. Krause
D. J. Lee
Bryant Mangum
Lea Marshall
Stacey Mercado
Maggie Messitt
Michelangelo
Terry Minchow-Proffitt
Carol Moldaw
Daniel Edward Moore
Jed Myers
Carol Moldaw
John Moser
Avital Oehler
Amie Oliver
Lisa Allen Ortiz
Richard Peabody
Amira Pierce
Joshua Poteat
James Prochnik
Mary Quade
Paisley Rekdal
Amy Sailer
Sherod Santos
Glenn Shephard, Jr.
Charlotte Simmonds
Leslie Stainton
Lee Strasburger
Sara Talpos
Dawn Whitmore
Jeanette Winterson
Emily Woodworth
Paloma Young
Myles Zavelo
Kip Zegers
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and more!
... addressing topics such as the poetry of passion, satellites, fear, Afghanistan, Fitzgerald's flappers and belles in the American imagination, China in revolutions both cultural and capitalistic, murder in Salt Lake City, relics in the tiny town at the top of Alaska, female friendship and Barbie's oft-forgotten bff, snuffing tobacco and drinking ayahuasca in the Amazon, things that make men mad, things that make words mean, death tolls in Africa, the language of texture in costume design, nature's fearful symmetry, and what it means to write a memoir--to write at all.
Photo by Chad Hunt, from a series on soldiers in Afghanistan and afterward--see "Dangerous Territories."
Jeanette Winterson​. Read our interview with her here.
Barbie and her best friend, Midge, photographed by Tyler Darden. Click the photo to read the article, specially formatted for the internet.
Cover image for issue 1.1--"Dangerous Territory."
Photo by Chad Hunt.
Congratulations
to our 2014 Pushcart
Prize Special Mentions!
Paisley Rekdal
Susann Cokal
Paloma Young, costume designer, with her Tony Award. Look for her interview in our issue "Hunt, Gather." Or read it in full online by clicking the photo!
Yehuda Amichai
Preliminary proofs ... Fantastically true stories, poems, and images inside!
There's a Hole in Reality Through Which We Can Look If We Wish. Lee Strasburger.
Images by Bradley Dicharry, from "Letters and Arts," a photo essay mapping America through its vernacular typography.
Other Issues
1.2, "Hunt, Gather," spring 2013
2.1, "Bedeviled," spring 2015.
"Rivals & Players" asks if we play the game or the game plays us. You can sample its offerings and read the whole issue by following this link here.
Summer 2018. Find it here.
"Birth, School, Work Death"--the four stages of humankind. This issue is all online and free to read here.
Celebrating at our 2013 Launch Party
Richmond's glitterati turned out to discuss the latest in literature, art, and belles lettres. At the open mic, everyone from undergrads to senior professors and deans took turns telling True Stories.
Bree Baker shares her truth at the microphone, emceed by founding grad student editor Chad Luibl.
Poet (and Pushcart nominee) Lea Marshall chats with Cristina Stanciu, Bill Edwards, and advisory board member artist Sterling Hundley.