SHADE is a Four Way Books yearly anthology of new fiction and poetry by established and emerging writers.

In Shade 2004, our debut issue, you will see poetry by Claire Bateman, Nancy Eimers, Forrest Hamer, Mark Halliday, William Olsen, Catherine Sasanov and many others...Our fiction selection includes work by Lewis Buzbee, Ron Rash, Christine Schutt, among others!

We do not seek to represent an aesthetic, rather we strive to collect dynamic, edgy, new writing from across the country.