For over 20 years, Epiphany has published literature that guides readers toward unexpected revelation. Learn more about us and the writers we publish.
Use our A-Z index to explore a few themes:
American Childhood Elegy
Once I slept in a hamper of my parents’ clothes
it’s true it started as a game of hide and seek
I was six I think and chose mom and dad’s hamper
it smelled like yard work and cigarettes and PE
clothes
The Way Out Is Through
I pass trucks carrying oil, milk, a load of onions (mostly) covered by a tarp. You’re hot, he says.
The Literary A-ha: An Interview with Airin Miller
While the story isn’t autobiographical, it is set in the landscape of my childhood. The summers were humid, gluey and close. Most everywhere was without central air conditioning.
I’ll Lay Down the Highway: (Virtual) Travels with Joni
“So, I fashion from her missteps a different kind of compass, revealing where a teller of stories should tread compassionately, inquisitively, conscientiously—or not at all.”
Taking a Turn in the Garden State
“I wondered if I was the one who had taken a funny turn. One can take a turn for the worse or the better. But taking a “funny turn” is ambiguous and enigmatic. I wondered what the original Italian phrasing was for this.”
“American Lessons” & “Gravity”
say elevator. say sidewalk.
say water different than
your mother says it,
cradling the edges inside the bowl
of your mouth.
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