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A Contrary girl
Leah Welborn If you click the tab up there that says “On the Contrary,” you’ll find an interesting rubric, something of a Contrary mission statement. It reads, in part: “we insist that all of our...
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The spring Contrary has sprung
photo by Chris Willis via Flickr Now and then, Shaindel falls in love. Sometimes years will pass without an episode, but when it happens, it’s a blazing passion. When a new flame flares up, I’ve...
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Forecast: A Contrary Summer
By Kenna Takahashi, Perfecto via flickr The Summer Contrary is published and we have an early deadline for Autumn. The details: “Vaucluse” by Laura Elizabeth Woollett is one of the finest pieces of...
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A new year for Contrary
Last winter, when the founding editor of Contrary magazine, Jeff McMahon, asked me to anchor the site’s blog, I was flattered, of course, but also a bit intimidated. The magazine had already...
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Pregnant with Stories and Poems
If you haven’t heard, we published a mega-issue of Contrary this winter, with seven new short stories, led by Nahid Rachlin and Jennifer Givhan, and eight new poems including a trio by Amanda Leigh...
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Ten Years = 130 Moons
The summer issue of Contrary is out, topped by three moon poems by John A. Nieves, and we are now accepting submissions for Winter 2014. The deadline is Dec. 1. Our Autumn 2013 issue will mark our...
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What it Means to be Contrary
“Turning words into art is unnatural. It begins with a contrary attitude. It says, I am unhappy with the way things are and desire to make things different. Rather than represent the world, I will make...
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Brought to a Boil: An Essay on Experimental Poetry
“All poetry is experimental poetry.” ~ Wallace Stevens Turning words into art is unnatural. It begins with a contrary attitude. It says, I am unhappy with the way things are and desire to make things...
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Fourteen New Poems, Four New Stories For Spring
Janet McNally’s poems captivated us—viscerally—from the first lines, not just the imagery, but the sounds: “kick past coral,” “conch shells,” “plate glass.” As we read on, we entered a web of thematic...
View ArticleContrary Poet Wins Ex Ophidia Prize
Excuse our French, but our raison d’etre is to support young writers, so we were cheered to receive this news from Ben Admussen: “Contrary was the first journal to publish Karina Borowicz, many years...
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