The MacGuffin

06/04/2026

POET HUNT 31 closes on June 15!! Send 5 poems per $15 entry fee to this year’s guest judge (and former MI poet laureate) NANDI COMER for your chance at the $500 grand prize!! Enter at

Guest judged by Nandi Comer, featured in vol. 41.2! The contest opens on April 1 and closes on June 15. • One (1) First Place Winner will receive a prize of $500 and publication. • Up to two (2) Honorable Mentions may also be recognized and published. • Each entrant will receive one free issue...

05/27/2026

🚨🚨🚨MOLLY THAPVIWAT IS A PUSHCART PRIZE WINNER🚨🚨🚨

Very excited to share that Molly Thapviwat’s poem, “Hudson Valley” (which you can find in the ol 🚜Tractor Issue🚜 (aka vol. 41.1 aka November 2025)), has been selected for inclusion in Pushcart Prize LI!! Congrats, Molly!!!!

You can pick up a copy of Pushcart LI this November and snag a copy of MacGuffin vol. 41.1 (published by Schoolcraft College) right now over at SchoolcraftBooks.com.

04/30/2026

Very excited to announce our nominees for this year’s : Liz N. Clift’s “21 Letters to My Younger Self” from vol. 41.1 (the Tractor Issue) and George Tidmore’s “Application for Naturalization” from vol. 41.2, shipping next week!! Congrats!! 🤩

04/01/2026

POET HUNT 31 is open!! Send us $15 and your best 5 poems to enter. We’ll even send you a copy with the winning poem (yours, probably). AND we’re featuring NANDI COMER, guest judge and former Michigan Poet Laureate, in our next issue (vol. 41.2) shipping v soon. Send your poems here: https://themacguffin.submittable.com/submit/353010/poet-hunt-31

03/09/2026

may be over, but you can still score a sick deal on the website: Subscriptions are on sale for the rest of the day at SchoolcraftBooks.com! https://www.schoolcraftbooks.com/shop_product_list.asp?catalog_group_id=MTY&catalog_group_name=TWFjZ3VmZmlu&catalog_id=52&catalog_name=VGhlIE1hY0d1ZmZpbg

03/07/2026

ITS NOT AN AWP UNTIL WE SELL ALL THE BOOKS!!!! 4-IN-A-ROW (or, in bowling terms, a hambone), BAYBEEE. PEACE OUT, BALTIMORE ✌️

03/05/2026

Hanging out at this weekend? Drop by table 706 and say hi to editor Brett Griffiths and prose editor Kellie Riddell along with a bunch of other staffers.

03/04/2026

We’re back at it and dishing up a fresh batch of Mini-MacGuffins at this year’s bookfair in lovely Baltimore, MD. Place your order over at table 706, and whet your appetite for the full-size, main course that is The MacGuffin with these bite-size, appetizers of literary morsels.
Audio and video by Gordon Krupsky.
Filmed on location in Wyandotte, MI.
The MacGuffin is a publication of Schoolcraft College

03/01/2026

March 1 means we’re only one month away from the start of POET HUNT 31, so it’s time to announce that our guest judge will be the fantastic Nandi Comer!! Our Michigan poets will know that Nandi was the state’s poet laureate from 2023-25. We’re very excited to feature some of her work in our upcoming vol. 41.2, due out next month, alongside the winning poems of last year’s POET HUNT 30. You can find full guidelines for this year’s contest here: https://www.schoolcraft.edu/macguffin/poet-hunt-contest/

01/05/2026

Hi. We’re back. 👋