Emerging Writers Festival Video
Back in early April, as part of USF's Emerging Writers Festival, five talented writers came to campus to give readings and collectively participate in a panel discussion about the writing life. The readings were split into two separate days. Day One saw the likes of Tina Chang, Marlon James, and Elena Passarello. Day Two featured Dana Johnson and Shane McCrae. Check out the video content now if you missed seeing them in the flesh.

Skin I'm In: Ariana Nadia Nash's Instructions for Preparing Your Skin

Poetry Editor Cassie Duggan reads and reviews Instructions for Preparing Your Skin by Ariana Nadia Nash, winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. "These poems are overwhelming, dripping with courageous passion and an astute awareness of what it means to be human."

Broken Is Here
Switchback 17: Broken is online now! It's a fantastic issue and our largest one to date. Special congratulations to Heather Frese, winner of our first ever Editors' Prize. Congratulations also goes out to Laura Read and Alec Hershman the first and second runners-up respectively. You can read all of Broken right here online or download the issue as a PDF from our media page. The arrival of issue 17 also means submissions are now open for our next issue. Switchback 18: Rising will be here in the fall of 2013. Send us your best previously unpublished fiction, poetry, art and nonfiction now!