The editorial team at Halfway Down the Stairs is proud to be publishing our 50th issue, in our fifteenth year of publication. But it’s not just this issue we’re proud of – we also have a beautiful back catalogue of work which deserves to have light thrown upon it.
It’s become a tradition with us now to highlight some of our favourite pieces – our cellar door, if you will. We introduce you to some of the editorial team’s most loved poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction at the links below. Sit back, relax, and settle in for some fine wine.
SEPTEMBER 2015, CELEBRATION
MBE, by Rebecca Burns | fiction
DECEMBER 2015, GREY AREA
Lament of the Heirloom Red Deer Tongue Lettuce, by Tricia Knoll | poetry
JUNE 2016, SUSPICION
I Never Liked Him, by Richard John Davis | fiction
DECEMBER 2016, ORIGINS
Photo Album, by William Cass | fiction
Robert the Bruce, by Susan Knox | nonfiction
Speaky-Spokey, by Maxine Kollar | nonfiction
DECEMBER 2017, SPILT MILK
Anger Is Its Own Lesson, by Laura Grace Weldon | poetry
MARCH 2018, SCHADENFREUDE
Navy Blue Buick, by Darcy Roennfeldt | fiction
JUNE 2018, NATURE
Rewilding of Tidmarsh and Beyond, by Kelly R. Samuels | poetry
A Promise, by Rasa Tautvydas | fiction
SEPTEMBER 2018, NEMESIS
Pilgrimage, Early March, by Melissa Huff | poetry
Raisins, by Patty Somlo | nonfiction
DECEMBER 2018, COMING OF AGE
The Wisdom is Hindsight, by Nancy Flynn | poetry
The Middle Man, by Ember Verma | fiction
MARCH 2019, ALL THAT GLITTERS
Sold, by Elise Hempel | poetry
A Very Old Man with Remarkable Paintings, by Time Barrow | fiction
JUNE 2019, DARKNESS AND LIGHT
The Caretaker, by Deborah C. Thomas | fiction
The Darkest Hour, by Tina Wayland | fiction
SEPTEMBER 2019, TROUBLE
Carnage, by Ann E. Wallace | poetry
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World, by Julia Bonadies | poetry
The Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, by Ellen Herbert | fiction
The Phantom Scribbler, by Siobhan Neville | fiction
DECEMBER 2019, THE CALLING
The Calling, by Anne Myles | poetry
Exhortation, by Nancy L. Meyers | poetry
Wrecking Malcolm, by Kristi Petersen Schoonover | fiction
Second Best Chicken Caller in the State of Iowa, by Victoria Millard | nonfiction
Selected by Stacy Wennstrom, Milena Nigam, Alison Stedman, Carrie Bachler, Sherri Miller, and Jeannie E. Roberts. Find out more about the editorial team here.
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