What the Husband Keeps by Todd Dillard from Issue 20 of Stanchion Magazine There was that time you went blind driving on 85.  I grabbed the wheel, we coasted down the offramp  to one of those anonymous office centers—it was  Saturday, so it was just us and the blackness  that swallowed your vision. "What's happening?" I asked.  But you said to wait. You described stars bursting,  light crumbling the dark's edges. And just as suddenly  you could see again. I asked if I should

Hallelujah Has Too Many Verses for Karaoke by Jo Gatford from Stanchion Magazine Issue 20 The street evangelist is plugged into a three-foot-tall karaoke speaker on a little wheelie trolley and your first thought is how the hell he got it on the bus—or if he drove here, where the hell he managed to park because you’ve been driving squares around the second-most expensive zone for twenty minutes trying to find a spot which means you had to powerwalk for another fifteen and now

This year's Pushcart Prize nominations come from two Stanchion Books chapbooks-the title story of Hannah Grieco's debut fiction collection, First Kicking, Then Not , and the final piece in Kristen Zory King's debut, Ladies, Ladies, Ladies -as well as Issues 19 and 20 of Stanchion Magazine. "The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America - including Highest Honors from the American Acade

For the first time ever, Stanchion was able to submit nominations for the annual Best of the Net Anthology . These are poetry and prose...

Catch Hannah Grieco on Zoom , reading and signing in bookstores, in conversation with other writers such as Amber Sparks and Tara...

With apologies to the bank on South Street, my first real adult job was at Vanguard, the investing behemoth in the suburbs of...

It is with great joy that I present the 2026 Stanchion Books lineup, which is a whopping 12 titles strong! Here's what you can expect...

Join us for Stanchion Magazine's 5th anniversary zoom reading!

Finding the Water to Cry by Jacqueline Goyette Originally published in Issue 16 of Stanchion Magazine. Winner of a 2025 Best Small...

Drunk Before Dinner by M. Dalton Eloy He’d agreed to come only after multiple heated back-and-forth screaming matches and the realization...

Dresser, Reincarnated by Mary Sophie Filicetti The dresser had seen better days. Peeling paint on the surface exposed colors buried...

Smothering by Laura Cooney The first time I saw a dead badger by the side of the road I poked it with a stick and thought of macaroni...

I’m Taking a Ride with My Best Friend by Shannon Frost Greenstein Try it. John stepped on the brake again, the angry red taillights of...

Señora by Juliet Kahn She survived the revolution because a jet of ionized gas penetrated the Hughes Nebula on the day she was born,...

We Panic, We Remember by Matthew Isaac Sobin Bodies plunge out of light. Though it isn’t lack of light but coldness that sends us...

Our Exquisite Corpse by Karen Walker Before rain ruins the church picnic, we sit in a meadow among wildflowers. We have paper for the...

Everything According to Plan in the Peaceable Kingdom by Kate Gehan Tam was in the cereal aisle when it began–wild yelling from the front...

Dinner with Friends by Melissa Flores Anderson Charles ignores Lilly’s texts on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. When he doesn’t respond,...

By Some Act of Mortal Divinity by Bethany Cutkomp Those tug-o-war strings keeping Sean teetering at the coastline are wearing thin. His...

Inverted Aquariums by Matthew Pritt When the tectonic plates smash against each other and make a new ridge above my house, I’m glad I’m...