Fourth Genre https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG <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> Michigan State University Press en-US Fourth Genre 1522-3868 The Pain Museum https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8064 Christina Olson Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Piernas Bonitas https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8105 Brooke Champagne Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Wild Streak https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8183 <p>This is a flash essay about a group of high school girls planning and executing a streaking prank, with unexpected results.</p> Shala Erlich Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Is This Lump Cancer? A Quiz https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8234 <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> Sarah Beth Childers Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Glacier Bay, July https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8058 Jamie Walters Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Every Time I Remember You https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8095 Karris McCollum Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Cardinal Movements https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8153 Marissa Landrigan Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Balancing the Equation https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8205 Steve Oberlechner Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Lapsed Catholic https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8277 <p>Lapsed Catholic: personal essay about faith, faithlessness, and faith again.</p> Kerry Neville Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Pionier https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8073 Krista Eastman Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Static, Clarity, and Middle-Aged Korean Lessons https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8113 <p>A Korean-American writer reflects on family secrets and Asian American hate during the 2020 pandemic.&nbsp;</p> Robert Yune Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 A Second Mother https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8184 <p>The author describes her relationship with a mentor who developed dementia.</p> Shira Musicant Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Fitted Sheets https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8269 Mallory Donoghue Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 After Visit Summary https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8061 Kristin Idaszak Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Matriarch Pink https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8098 Janay Garrick Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Rear View https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8175 Liz Arnold Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Intruder https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8223 Laurie Ann Doyle Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 bonds that last https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8280 <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> Mallory Miles Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Going gone https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8057 laura bernstein-Machlay Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 How To Avoid the Use of Adverbs While Telling You How My Husband Died https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8080 <p>A brief meditation when guidelines for good writing collide with calamity.</p> Jan M Flynn Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Facts Are Stubborn Things https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8150 Bruce Snider Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Heaven's Whatever https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8188 Samantha Edmonds Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 The Sewing Box https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8271 Jennifer Anderson Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Inter-Review https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8310 <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> Kathryn Winograd Syd Lea Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2 Dear Reader https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8455 Fourth Genre Copyright (c) 2024 Fourth Genre 2024-10-22 2024-10-22 26 2