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 Send us your best previously unpublished fiction, poetry, art and nonfiction now!

Broken: The Issue 17 Launch Party

Join us for a reading celebrating the launch of Issue 17: Broken. Readers from the issue will be on hand to dazzle you. The new issue goes live May 1 and the celebration begins Friday May 3 at Sacred Grounds Cafe at 2095 Hayes St, San Francisco, California 94117. Readings will start at 6:30 PM.