https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/issue/feed 2025-03-28T14:22:03-04:00 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/8428 2024-08-09T13:38:04-04:00 Jessie van Eerden jessie.vaneerden@gmail.com

<p>An essay that excavates biblical myth while exploring contemporary questions of home and relationship.</p>

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<p>Creative nonfiction "how to" essay format about arriving late to a grandparent's death.</p>

2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8321 2024-04-26T09:51:15-04:00 Sabrina Dalla Valle winter.night.18@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8421 2024-08-07T20:56:29-04:00 Pamela Garvey jpchan0495@sbcglobal.net 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8502 2024-10-17T08:27:43-04:00 Marah Hoffman hoffmanmarahr@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8315 2024-04-25T10:12:11-04:00 Erin Ruble erinruble@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8429 2024-08-11T12:27:30-04:00 Carrie South carrie@editmecarrielee.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8291 2024-03-29T17:10:17-04:00 Jane Salisbury jane.janers@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8338 2024-05-10T17:02:28-04:00 Kurt Caswell kurt.caswell@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8425 2024-08-08T13:56:59-04:00 Andi Myles andi@andimyles.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8503 2024-10-16T16:03:33-04:00 Mekiya Outini mekiya@me.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8316 2024-04-24T12:19:57-04:00 Anne Rudig rudiganne@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8419 2024-08-06T18:58:11-04:00 Julie Marie Wade juwade@fiu.edu

<p>This essay, which might be considered a lyric essay or a "hermit crab essay," explores the author's experience with synesthesia in the form of a game of Twister. Each section is comprised of 250 words and preceded by a red, blue, yellow, or green orb of color, as on a Twister mat. In visual-aural forms of synesthia, colors are often especially provocative indicators of the condition, so these 24 sections allow for an associative and accretive meditation on each of the four colors' idiosyncratic significance to the author.</p>

2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8430 2024-08-11T22:21:55-04:00 Jessica Franken jfranken@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8294 2024-04-01T22:07:20-04:00 Arya Samuelson aryasamuelson@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8354 2024-05-30T14:33:30-04:00 K. Van Wert kingwhereof@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8672 2025-02-03T16:34:15-05:00 Michael Martone mmartone@ua.edu Fourth Genre 4thgenre@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8546 2024-11-14T09:17:08-05:00 Jennifer Case jcase@uca.edu Elizabeth Rogers elizabeth.lindsey.rogers@gmail.com 2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8386 2024-07-03T12:32:55-04:00 Anne Gudger Annegudger@gmail.com

<p>A book review of <span style="font-weight: 400;">Meghan Riordan Jarvis, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">End of the Hour: A Therapist’s Memoir </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">and&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mary Mandeville, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">What Lasts: A Narrative Reliquary</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Wrong Publishing, 2023, 54 pages, paperback.</span></p>

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