We are pleased to present the first issue of 2012, now live for your reading pleasure. Within you’ll find new fiction and poetry, our first-ever interview (featuring Dan Chaon), and the winner of our Editors’ Choice Creative Nonfiction contest, Chelsey Clammer, and her incredible “Bodyhome.” The Spring CNF Prize includes a $40 honorarium and a one-of-a-kind print of the issue. We received so many wonderful submissions for our first contest, and are honored to showcase our top choices in this issue, among them a graphic memoir and another selection from William Henderson’s memoir-in-progress. Henderson first appeared in Volume 1.2 with “Mon Coeur,” later nominated by us for a Pushcart Prize.
At 127 pages, this is our biggest issue to date, but it’s just the beginning of what we hope will be a very big year for the RevHouse. Stay with us and see what’s next.

The inaugural issue of Embodied Effigies. Spring 2012: The Best of Ball State University. A creative nonfiction magazine, created by and for CNF writers & the community.