Issue.29

When SixByEight Press first launched in those early months of 2016, there were a handful of people who we imagined — and hoped! — would be regular participants in this…

NATALIE GALLAGHER In this issue, we talk to Lizz Dworak, a graduate student in psychology at Northwestern University, about her experiences as a cosplayer — the craft, the characters, and…

SAM SCHANWALD Characters BEEF, narrator, happens to be a frozen slab of kosher beef in the snow, played by a man MIRIAM, an ex-orthodox-Jew, newly divorced, still wears the wig,…

SARAH GRACE VILLARREAL September 2000 The A/C kicked on, cooling Grandma’s unusually quiet house on this warm late summer afternoon. Where all our parents had gone, none of us were…

JONAH CAMPBELL The warm morning sun poured through the outstretched limbs of the Scots pines, the crisp ocean breeze tickling their needlelike leaves. The sprawling lawn from which the trees…

NEIL M. PAIK Supernova The world is not the same, When every pin drop reminds me of your name, When every drop of rain Is filled with the salt and…

KELLEY KIDD When I began writing with SixByEight Press two and a half years ago, I knew that what I loved most was writing. I’ve always known this about myself.…

In this issue, we celebrate the many forms, styles, and themes that can be conveyed through creative writing — ranging from personal essays to short plays, and everything in between.…