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2025 Contest Judges
Announcing 2025 Contest JudgesAt the beginning of each year Fourth Genre hosts the Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest and the Multimedia Essay Contest. We are always excited to collaborate with phenomenal judges and appreciate the work and care that is shown as...
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A Little Blue Cabin on the Iowa River: Finding a Home ‘that Carries You Forward’
A Little Blue Cabin on the Iowa River Finding a Home ‘that Carries You Forward’ Off Izaak Walton RoadBy Laura Julier272 pp. University of New Mexico Press, $19.95Released March 2025 Laura Julier’s Off Izaak Walton Road is an extraordinary memoir in which the...
MULTIMEDIA
Remapping an Unraveling
Read this choose-your-own-adventure essay that judge Kelcey Ervick called “insightful,” and “utterly immersive”
CRAFT ESSAYS
The Fault Lines of Memory
I grew up in Northridge California, a place prone to big earthquakes. The San Andreas fault is a defining feature of California, and anyone who lives there, lives with the recognition that the ground can shift at any moment. What was certain one day can be completely changed in the next.
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