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Issue no 9 contains 130 pages printed on FSC certified and recycled paper

—Renee Gladman (2020 Open Reading Period Guest Judge)

The nebulae where stars are born and die

Daphna Saker Massey

it will generalize rules

Thirty delete Issue no 9 contains 130Thirty is the story of a woman who is convinced that she is going to die at the age of thirty. Addressing those who will read it posthumously, she documents the last year of her life in a dark, obsessive diary. Other women are summoned into her downward spiral: spectral muses, heroines ghosts, suicide writers; Nelly Arcan, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Marie Sissi Labrch, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Michelle Tea, and Angelina Jolie. A raw exploration of female