“I received Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal while in residence at the Sewanee Summer Writers’ Conference. I carried the galley around with me for a week, the book always in my backpack. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers. Flannery O’Connor’s prayers.” — Jamie Quatro, “The Sound Before the Song”

Steve Featherstone goes on a great hunt for the Florida python and Rachel Monroe investigates a fertilizer plant fire in Texas. Essays by John T. Edge, Courtney Balestier, Kate Sweeney, and more. Fiction by C.E. Morgan. Poetry by Rebecca Gayle Howell. Photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay.