Fiction – BIG OTHER

Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2022 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim…

Happy birthday, John Domini! Celebrate by reading this Domini fiction we published in 2019! Watch Domini reading it, with Lettie…

Happy birthday, Rone Shavers! Celebrate by reading these Shavers crônicas we published in 2019! Crônica No. 1: On the…

Digressions Toward an Introduction to Big Other’s Puerto Rican Writer’s Folio: A Hauntology John Madera, Editor Three Poems…

Hungry Ghost “Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne It has been so long.…

As Jack trudges up the stairs to Ukukus that Thursday night, Umberto, Cardo, Chaska, and Graciela stop him on…

A lot of people say I have great posture. I’m not sure this is altogether true, that I have…

Translated by Katie Marya Humans are born one hundred ninety-six thousand four hundred eighteen years ago in East Africa.…

I didn’t think people died of AIDS anymore. No more friends falling ill in large numbers. No more hospital…

Nestor “Bimbo” Osorio had set up a beading room in his apartment, where he made elekes. Pushing eighty, he…