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Editor's Letter

Quarantine lifts. We emerge from our cocoons and venture outside. In this latter half of 2021—after over a year and a half cloistered in solitary quarantine—we reexamine what it means to be social. To engage with others—not just other people, but the outside world. We relearn relationships.

In this issue, our writers, poets, and artists delve into relationships of all kinds. Intimate, personal relationships between children, mothers, fathers, friends, and potential lovers. Abstract societal relationships and relationships with our pasts, memories, and self-image. Between humans and nature. Between citizens and cities. Between patients and healthcare. Our featured artist Miya Turnbull's mask making deconstructs portraiture and explores one's relationship with self. The connective thread that tethers us to the interior and exterior world is significant; MASKS Literary Magazine is thrilled to present how creatives have plumbed these relational depths.
 

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L.A. Hawbaker
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POETRY

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - Robert Frost

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Wendy BoodyGraaff 


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Mary Bowman


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Clara Burghelea


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Wendell Hawken


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Stephanie Pritchard


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Sean Swogger


FICTION

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth." - Albert Camus

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Aisan L. Afshar


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Ryan Everett Felton


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Arden Hunter


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Alyson Mann


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Jody Rae


NONFICTION

"One of the underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose
narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material." - William Zinsser

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Sarah (Qiuqi) Bovold


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Jennifer Liss


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Nathaniel Mellor


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Muchen Wang


ART

"When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes." - Amedeo Modigliani

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  • Featured
  • Issue
  • Interviews
    • Melissa Meier
    • Miya Turnbull
    • Molly Yingling
    • Kate Wisel
  • Submissions
    • Guidelines
    • Contests
  • About
    • Masthead
    • Our Mission
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