Inch is a magazine devoted to bringing you the smallest poems and the shortest fiction in a tiny package.
From 2006-2018, the magazine was an eight-page, 5.5″ x 4.25″ beauty shipping every three months (give or take), and each issue was only a buck. The print run issues 1-20 was 250; for issues 21-37, the print run was 350.
Beginning in 2019, Inch began focusing on the work of a single author in each issue.
In 2020, as old issues of Inch began to fall out of print we chose to preserve these small gems—issues 1-37—as three eBook collections.
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Inch #37 – Fall 2018
Poetry
Josh Kalscheur – “Close-Up Picture”
Emily Light – “Placing Bets”
Prose
Kim Church – “The Residence at Cedar Crest”
Anita Goveas – “At the Edge”
Inch #36 – Winter 2018
Poetry
Salem Dockery – “Stonehenge Was a Waste””
John Sibley Williams – “In Medias Res”
Prose
Kyle Hemmings – “The White Album: Alternate Takes – Track 5”
Cathy Ulrich – “Killing Something Like Time”
Inch #35 – Fall 2017
Poetry (selected by guest Poetry Editor Leslie Sainz!)
Jessica Hudgins – “But Who’s Counting”
Prose
Kai Hudson – “The Memory Garden”
Khadijah Queen – “Autaugaville,” “Inheritance,” “How Did You Escape?”
Inch #34 – Summer 2017
Poetry (selected by guest Poetry Editor Leslie Sainz!)
Alisha Dietzman – “9 Questions to Make You Fall in Love” and “I Hope We Are in Love Now”
Prose
Alyson Hagy – “The Secret Word”
Joshua Johnson – “History”
Inch #33 – Winter 2017
Poetry
Nora Boxer – “Olympos, Turkey”
Philip Kobylarz – “Luberon”
Victoria McArtor – “Dessert”
Prose
Maggie Cooper – “The Cure”
Brian Phillip Whalen – “Men”
Inch #32 – Fall 2016
Fiction
Michael Parker – “Medicine Girl”
Maddy Raskulinecz – “Little Hungers”
Inch #31 – Summer 2016
Poetry
Ellen C. Bush – “Wasps”
Abi Pollokoff – “Out of Pebbles”
Prose
Cameron Quincy Todd – “We Are All Relatively Safe Here”
Inch #30 – Winter 2016
Poetry
Anna Bernstein – “Venous”
Prose
Nick Admussen – “Parable of the Rotary Phone”
Landon Godfrey – “Husband”
Fred Muratori – “Meat”
Inch #29 – Summer 2015
Poetry
Elton Glaser – “Attuned” “Invitation in the French Mode”
Forrest Hamer – “Saying It Would Steal Spirit”
Susan Hutton – “X”
Pramila Venkateswaran – “Definition”
Ann Volin – “Drilling in North Dakota”
Gary J. Whitehead – “Precipitation”
Inch #28 – Spring 2015
Fiction
Amy Weldon – “Wrestling the Angel”
Poetry
Joshua Coben – “Ellipsis”
Michael McFee – “Scan: Stage 4,” “Oh God,” and “Buried”
Kimberly O’Connor – “Dear Despair”
Inch #27 – Winter 2014
Double-sized spectacular!
Fiction
Linda Nemec Foster – “The Maid from the Hotel in Bialystok”
Julia Ridley Smith – “The Lady with the Double Stroller”
Stefen Styrsky – “The Kid”
Poetry
Ashaki M. Jackson – “The Body Revivified with Living Artifacts”
Owen Lewis – “Bouquet for My Father”
Nathan McClain – “The Fortress of Solitude” and “Hide and Seek”
Matthew Olzmann – “Letter to a Bridge Made of Rope”
Inch #26 – Fall 2014
Fiction
Glenn Shaheen – “Degrees”
Luke Wortley – “Open Season”
Poetry
Vievee Francis – “Dark Cradle” and “Shut Down the Muse”
José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes – “The Moment Dance Ends” and “Emend Nascent Method”
Inch #25 – Summer 2014
Fiction
Halina Duraj – “Reading The Odyssey at the Original Pancake House, Salt Lake City”
Poetry
Rachel Richardson – “Theory of Desire: The Essex”
Jessica Smith – “I Still Make it to School, Mostly” and “My Mother Tries to Walk Down the Stairs”
Inch #24 – Spring 2014
Fiction
Daniel Wallace – “Always”
Poetry
Rosalynde Vas Dias – “Navy Bean Teeth” and “Real Bird”
Inch #23 – Winter 2013
Fiction
Catherine Lewis – “Stringing Spiders”
Poetry
Emma Bolden – “We Find the Difference Between Having and Holding” and “You Were Always Polite”
Luke Hankins – “A Thought That’s Freeing”
Kimberly O’Connor – “Maps”
Michelle Peñaloza – “Operation”
Inch #22 – Fall 2013
Fiction
Joe Baumann – “Looking Glass”
Stace Budzko – “Today Begins My Fascination with Girls”
Sarah McCartt-Jackson – “Abyssal Plain”
Poetry
Al Maginnes – “Zero”
Michael Schmeltzer – “Portrait of My Father, Shirtless”
Inch #21 – Summer 2013
Fiction
Jaydn DeWald – “Overture”
Daniel Wallace – “Snow”
Poetry
Brandi Marks – “Another Orchid”
Inch #20 – Spring 2013
Fiction
Carmen Maria Machado – “Dating Men with Biblical Names”
Poetry
Stacey Balkun – “Louis Armstrong Speaks to the City”
Katherine DeBlassie – “Poema de Amor (14)”
Lee Sharkey – “Tiresias Tells It”
Celisa Steele – “Another Moon Poem”
Inch #19 – Winter 2012
Double-sized micro-memoir issue, edited by Robin Black!
Nonfiction
Tina Barry – “Bon Voyage”
Emma Bolden – “The Damage”
Meghan Dunn – “Missing One”
Tony Eprile – “Of Prison, The Constitutional Court, and a Typewriter”
Roxane Gay – “Alone Together”
Steven Wingate – “Richard Leakey Playing God in the Desert”
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Inch #18 – Summer 2012
Fiction
Randall Brown – “Empty”
Patrick Swaney – “Consignment”
Poetry
Heather Cousins – “October,” “Teeth”
Hannah Riddle – “The Beginning”
Emma Sovich – “Flying Fox”
Robert West – “A Blur”
SOLD OUT
Inch #17 – Spring 2012
Double-sized spring poetry spectacular!
Poetry
Zena Cardman – “Truth Be Told” and “Growing Up in Mobius Strip”
Christina Cook – “Sea Shards”
Emily Kendal Frey & Sarah Bartlett – “When We Cross the Street a Big Feather Flies Off Your Feather Earrings”
Jenny George – “Doll”
Kathleen Ziesler Goldman – “El Niño”
G.L. Grey – “Jealousy”
Matthew Haughton – “Ox-Eyes”
Glenn Hollar – “Summer Fragments”
Rochelle Hurt – “In the Century of Mute Tongues” and “In the Century of New Skin”
Roger Pfingston – “Zoo”
David Roderick – “Dear Suburb”
Phillip B. Williams – “Trauma”
SOLD OUT
Inch #16 – Fall 2011
Fiction
Ron Reikki – “I Saw God Once,” “From Now On I’ll Just Tell Them To Read This And Then I Don’t Have To Say It Anymore” and “When My Cousin Gets Drunk”
Poetry
Nickolas Butler – “Grenade”
Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney – “Tips For Increasing Productivity At Work”
Anthony Opal – “Wing Note”
Francis Raven – “Taxonomy”
Peter Schwartz – “Boredom & Resurrection”
SOLD OUT
Inch #15 – Winter 2011
Fiction
Andrew Scott – “Lost Goods”
Poetry
Jasmine V. Bailey – “Calligraphy,” “Sometime Galatea”
Mike Puican – “Binge”
SOLD OUT
Inch #14 – Summer 2010
Fiction
Clare Marie Myers – “Two Kinds of People”
Poetry
Maudelle Driskell – “Slingshot”
Colleen S. Harris – “The Post-Script She Doesn’t Write”
Peter Jay Shippy – “Boxing Clever”
SOLD OUT
Inch #13 – Winter 2010
Double-sized fiction spectacular, guest-edited by Michael Martone!
Fiction
Denise Delgado – “Ready”
Diane D. Gillette – “The Rope”
Bruce Harris – “On the Ropes”
J.A. Tyler – “The Hawks”
Daniel Wallace – “How to Build a Coffin”
David Yost – “Soup”
SOLD OUT
Inch #12 – Fall 2009
Poetry
Emily Kendal Frey – “Signal”
Hannah Gamble – “Women Writing About Sex”
Reb Livingston – “Diminished Prophecy 10.1”
Dave Lucas – “On Catholicism” and “On Film”
Matthew Olzmann – “The Days”
Samn Stockwell – “One Consolation for Monday,” “Our Common History,” and ” The Sale”
SOLD OUT
Inch #11 – Summer 2009
Poetry
Betty Adcock – “Skinny Poem”
Jasmine V. Bailey – “Portrait of a Young Man”
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer – “Conversation Q” and “Conversation W”
Victoria Bosch Murray – “Prayer for Riding the Saco River”
Robert M. Wallace – “Sunlight on the River”
Donna Glee Williams – “Night Porch”
Fiction
Michael McFee – “BEWARE OF GOD”
Inch #10
Featuring poetry from Christopher Citro, Mary Leader, Muriel Nelson, Addie Tsai, and Michael Walsh. Fiction by Kevin Grauke.
SOLD OUT
Inch #9
Featuring poetry from Emily Kendal Frey, George Higgins, Teresa Lee, and Greg Schwartz. Fiction by Shane Jones and Christopher Meades.
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Inch #8
Featuring poetry from DeLana R.A. Dameron, Zack Haber, Sarah Tuttle, Lafayette Wattles, and Robert West. Fiction by Michael Chitwood and Thomas Cooper.
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Inch #7
Featuring poetry from Sara Bauer, Justin Bigos, Craig Giandomenico, and John Ward Hocter. Fiction by Matthew Purdy.
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Inch #6
Featuring poetry from Emma Bolden, Clare L. Martin, Kevin McLellan, Tara Powell, and Peter Schwartz. Fiction by Edward Porter.
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Inch #5
Featuring poetry from Michael Chitwood, Philip Memmer, and Jillena Rose. Fiction by Philip McFee.
SOLD OUT
Inch #4
Featuring poetry from Jeffery Beam, Sebastian Matthews, and Mischa Willett. Fiction by Michael McFee. Nonfiction by Cynthia Reeves.
SOLD OUT
Inch #3
Our first all-poetry issue! Featuring poems by Emma Bolden, Eric Johnson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Laura Li Ziegler, John P. Harmeling, Jonathan Greene, and Jennifer C. Manion.
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Inch #2
Featuring poetry from Michael Chitwood, Ginny Komenda, Chris Tonelli, Robert West, and Mark Yakich. Fiction by Philip McFee.
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Inch #1
Featuring poetry from Ellen C. Bush, Melissa Eleftherion, Michael McFee, Chris Tonelli, and Laura Li Ziegler. Fiction by Liliana V. Blum and Will Rodriguez, translated by Toshiya Kamei.
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