https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/issue/feed 2024-10-22T16:28:56-04:00 Fourth Genre Editorial Office journals@msupress.org Open Journal Systems <p>We invite you to experience <em><strong>Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction</strong></em>, a journal devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. Given the genre’s flexibility and expansiveness, we welcome a variety of works ranging from personal essays and memoirs to literary journalism and personal criticism. The editors invite works that are lyrical, self-interrogative, meditative, and reflective, as well as expository, analytical, exploratory, or whimsical. In short, we encourage submissions across the full spectrum of the genre. The journal encourages a writer-to-reader conversation, one that explores the markers and boundaries of literary/creative nonfiction.</p> <p>Editors: Patrick Madden and Joey Franklin, <em>Brigham Young University</em></p> https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8183 2024-01-31T18:30:17-05:00 Shala Erlich shala.erlich@gmail.com

<p>This is a flash essay about a group of high school girls planning and executing a streaking prank, with unexpected results.</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8234 2024-03-03T11:07:52-05:00 Sarah Beth Childers sbchilders@gmail.com

<p>A forty-one-year-old woman discovers a lump and has it removed and biopsied. While she waits to learn if she has cancer, she worries about the implications for her life and her family, including two young daughters.&nbsp;</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8058 2023-12-02T14:22:20-05:00 Jamie Walters jw4211@nyu.edu 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8095 2023-12-21T12:15:58-05:00 Karris McCollum kraemccollum@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8153 2024-01-16T13:49:56-05:00 Marissa Landrigan marissa.landrigan@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8205 2024-02-18T13:14:08-05:00 Steve Oberlechner Steve.Oberlechner@mail.wvu.edu 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8277 2024-03-21T14:40:25-04:00 Kerry Neville kerrybneville@gmail.com

<p>Lapsed Catholic: personal essay about faith, faithlessness, and faith again.</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8073 2023-12-11T10:18:39-05:00 Krista Eastman dearkristaeastman@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8113 2023-12-30T17:06:39-05:00 Robert Yune robertyune@gmail.com

<p>A Korean-American writer reflects on family secrets and Asian American hate during the 2020 pandemic.&nbsp;</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8184 2024-01-31T19:18:00-05:00 Shira Musicant shiramusicant@cox.net

<p>The author describes her relationship with a mentor who developed dementia.</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8269 2024-03-15T16:52:02-04:00 Mallory Donoghue mallory.donoghue@uky.edu 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8061 2023-11-30T22:14:06-05:00 Kristin Idaszak k.idaszak@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8098 2023-12-21T14:15:21-05:00 Janay Garrick janay.garrick@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8175 2024-01-29T10:06:39-05:00 Liz Arnold eliz.arnold@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8223 2024-02-29T13:48:31-05:00 Laurie Ann Doyle laurieanndoyle@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8280 2024-03-22T16:14:43-04:00 Mallory Miles milesmb3@gmail.com

<p>"bonds that last" is a lyric essay that uses the phases and gravitational pull of the moon as a metaphor to track a relationship affected by changes in sexuality and mental health. Ultimately, the essay testifies that change doesn't have to be a destructive force. Instead, change is necessary for some bonds to endure.</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8057 2023-11-29T17:11:44-05:00 laura bernstein-Machlay ljbm@sbcglobal.net 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8080 2023-12-13T17:47:13-05:00 Jan M Flynn janmflynn1537@gmail.com

<p>A brief meditation when guidelines for good writing collide with calamity.</p>

2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8150 2024-01-12T16:30:38-05:00 Bruce Snider bhsnider@yahoo.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8188 2024-02-01T12:56:43-05:00 Samantha Edmonds samanthajedmonds@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8271 2024-03-18T13:18:24-04:00 Jennifer Anderson jsanderson@lcsc.edu 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8064 2023-12-04T17:19:26-05:00 Christina Olson thechristinaolson@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8105 2023-12-25T10:43:43-05:00 Brooke Champagne brookechampagne@gmail.com 2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8310 2024-04-17T12:01:40-04:00 Kathryn Winograd kathywin@earthlink.net Syd Lea pdovet@gmail.com

<p>Poets Syd Lea and Kathryn Winograd discuss the differences and similarities between the poem and the lyric essay and the intuitive process of writing either.&nbsp;</p>

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