Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal
Established in 2001, Harpur Palate is a literary journal published twice yearly by students at Binghamton University. The project has long been a joint effort of graduate and undergraduate students in the English Department, and is now led by PhD students with the support of undergraduate interns--who earn college credit and learn about literary publishing at the same time.
The first issues of Harpur Palate published only fiction and poetry. The magazine currently accepts submissions for poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction, but this open access archive will also include visual art, photo essays, and interviews from past issues. The magazine runs three annual contests with cash prizes: Creative Nonfiction (Sept 1-Nov 15), John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction (Feb 15-April 30), and the Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Prize (Sept 1-Nov 15).
In its back issues, Harpur Palate has works from such notable authors as Major Jackson, Lydia Davis, Sherman Alexie, and more. Future editors of major publications have also served on the staff at Harpur Palate, such as current co-editor of North American Review J.D. Schraffenberger. Now that the magazine has made the transition to an all-online publication, the editors look forward to publishing new and innovative works on our online platform, Harpur Palate
Current Issue: Volume 23, Number 1 (2024)
Fiction
Dispatches
Sylvia Fox
The Night She Returns
Areej Quraishi
Family Tree
O. Edwin Ozama
Hurricane Season
Andrea Rinard
Last Night at the Gentlemen's Club
Hannah Rovska-Strider
Mr. Buttercakes
Avery Holmes
Poetry
Workbook Exercises
Emma Aylor
Northern Tongue
Erin Bennett
MANTLEPIECE
Rhienna Guedry
Aubade with 1992 Corolla
Caylie Herrmann
Polycephaly
Caylie Hermmann
Waiting for Engraftment
Romana Iorga
maybe, i'm tangled in
Paris Jessie
Medusa Finds Me, Climbs Inside
Christen Noel Kauffman
My Mouth of Letters Spells Nothing
Donald Pasmore
Leviathan swallows Behemoth & several singing canaries
Anthony Thomas Lombardi
Later That Evening
Joseph Radke
What Turns Me On
Lauren Yarnall
And After Epiphany
John Schneider
Creative Nonfiction
Response to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self’s Op-Ed about Columbine Published in the Local Paper in 1999
Amy Monticello
Self-Portrait of a Woman Her Name
Brianna Pike
The Last Time I Didn't See You
Eric Roy
On Attention
Sandra Simonds
Native Instruments
Pritha RaySircar
Art and Photography
Who Will Save Us
Juanjuan Henderson
Picnic with the Conjoined
Ann Wong
Full Issue
Editors
- Editor in Chief
- Alycia Calvert
- Managing Editor
- Shannon Hearn
- Fiction Co-Editor
- Sam Corradetti
- Fiction Co-Editor
- Jesse Gilleland
- Poetry Co-Editor
- Jordan Franklin
- Poetry Co-Editor
- Ella Flores
- Creative Nonfiction Editor
- Suzanne Richardson
Cover Image
“Presidents Room” by Wong WanYee, Ann Wong (b.1996) obtained a BA in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2020, and she currently lives and works in Hong Kong and Sweden. Wong uses different media to record and reflect on trifles in life. In her works, she explores the possibilities among media by duplicating, extracting, covering or simplifying individual elements and then combining them in a specific way.
From the artist: Living in the same city, we brush past familiar strangers every day, without conversation, without eye contact. Yet, we share the same space, aware of each other’s existence, day after day, continuing each other’s urban life experiences.
When an individual or a group tries to disrupt the systematically managed space by not adhering to its norms, appearing or using the space in an “inappropriate” way, it may create a gap in our monotonous lives, prompting us to rethink the relationship between urban space, strangers in the city, and the mutual influence. Through the medium of painting, I depicted the tug-of-war between the repetitive personal actions in daily life and the urban space.
Editor's Note
… and this issue would not exist without the continued guidance and support from our former EIC, Dr. Hannah Carr-Murphy. We miss you desperately, and cherish your creative legacy with every word!