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 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8428 <p>An essay that excavates biblical myth while exploring contemporary questions of home and relationship.</p> Jessie van Eerden Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8290 <p>Creative nonfiction "how to" essay format about arriving late to a grandparent's death.</p> Shannon McCarthy Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8321 Sabrina Dalla Valle Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8421 Pamela Garvey Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8502 Marah Hoffman Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8315 Erin Ruble Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8429 Carrie South Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8291 Jane Salisbury Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8338 Kurt Caswell Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8425 Andi Myles Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8503 Mekiya Outini Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8316 Anne Rudig Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8419 <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> Julie Marie Wade Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8430 Jessica Franken Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8294 Arya Samuelson Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8354 K. Van Wert Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8672 Michael Martone Fourth Genre Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8546 Jennifer Case Elizabeth Rogers Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8386 <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> Anne Gudger Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1 https://ojs.msupress.org/index.php/FG/article/view/8580 Fourth Genre Copyright (c) 2025 Fourth Genre 2025-03-28 2025-03-28 27 1