https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/issue/feed Fourth Genre 2025-12-15T11:53:20-05:00 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/8830 Inter-Review Susan Ito and Amy Lee Scott 2025-05-09T09:17:17-04:00 Amy Scott Scott alsdimca@gmail.com Susan Ito susanito@mac.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8959 An Ars Poetica, Sort of 2025-07-29T12:08:15-04:00 Fourth Genre 4thgenre@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8581 In Search of Baubo 2024-12-13T15:59:10-05:00 Emily Collins emily.beth.collins@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8697 Fainting Couch 2025-02-16T18:23:23-05:00 Carrie Messenger carriemess@yahoo.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8724 The Mental Triangle 2025-03-06T10:02:16-05:00 wendy palmer wendyspalmer@comcast.net 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8756 My Confederate Girlhood 2025-03-21T14:56:20-04:00 Elizabeth Logan Harris eloganharris@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8547 The Flutist 2024-11-14T11:19:04-05:00 Sibbie O'Sullivan sibbie@umd.edu 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8667 Cardinal Lessons 2025-02-02T10:48:45-05:00 Stephanie Anderson stephanieandersonwriting@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8719 Good Houseleaving 2025-03-02T17:29:54-05:00 Marianne Janack mjanack@hamilton.edu <p>"Good Houseleaving" is a segmented essay about houses, place, ownership, things, and memory.&nbsp;</p> 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8728 Lessons on Foraging 2025-03-09T18:13:07-04:00 Suzanne Roberts suzanneroberts28@hotmail.com <p>This personal essay is about wildfire, morel hunting, environmental grief, chronic illness, and accepting mortality</p> 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8583 12 Ways Of Looking At God 2024-12-15T15:26:39-05:00 Andrew Bertaina andrewbertaina@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8713 Fishbowl 2025-02-27T12:49:44-05:00 Jeanne Kay candide27@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8726 Opiate Kintsugi 2025-03-06T18:00:23-05:00 Lindsey Pharr pharrla@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8571 The Strata Beneath Our Feet 2024-12-06T07:00:49-05:00 Debra Dean msdebradean@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8671 What Devastated Means 2025-02-03T15:09:56-05:00 Sarah Olson sarahbarretthoffman@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8721 Nightmares like these 2025-03-03T19:32:04-05:00 Beth Alvarado bethalvarado1@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8737 The First Day of Everything After 2025-03-18T17:39:12-04:00 Jerry Mathes jdmathes2@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8632 I Will Say, "But for Him It Was" 2025-01-13T15:40:39-05:00 Brad Aaron Modlin brad.aaron.modlin@outlook.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8715 Jinx: On Superstition and Survival 2025-02-27T17:19:36-05:00 Claire Hansen clairechansen14@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8727 On Linguistic Nihilism and Fuddruckers 2025-03-06T22:36:48-05:00 Jeanine Bee jeanineeyrebee@gmail.com 2025-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre