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2026 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issue
When watching the news, tragic stories involving teenagers seemingly dominate every channel. Whether it’s shootings, car crashes, or viral clips of teen takeovers taking a turn for the worse, as an 18-year-old student at Michigan State University, it feels as if there is no shortage of eyes on the state of our adolescents right now.
April 15-28, 2026
I’m not sure what to say about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, but one thing is for sure: I don’t know that I like Chris Pratt that much anymore. I find that strange because his character on Parks and Recreation, Andy Dwyer, is one of my all-time favorite sitcom schlubs and he was one of…
Metro Times seeks Detroit-area youth to feature in our 2026 Fiction Issue
Would you like your poetry, fiction, or art to be published in the Detroit Metro Times in print and online to over 700,000 readers? Would you like one of 20 opportunities to win a $100 VISA gift card? Are you a Metro-Detroit youth with something to say? Detroit Lit is seeking art, poetry, and fiction from youth ages 13-19 to feature in the 2026 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issue.
Metro Times seeks Detroit-area youth to feature in our 2026 Fiction Issue
Buddy’s Pizza under new ownership -- meet the CEO When someone visits Detroit and asks for food recommendations, Buddy’s is usually on that list. Now, there are changes on the way for the pizza chain …
2025 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issue
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And Our City Was Ours
And when the Outers left there was so much space. We took to our parking lots, our downtown plazas. Some of us drank their wine and sat in their cafes without fear or the cold blue watch. We cruised our island, perched barefoot on our stone whitewashed bridge. Without the Outers designing their cul-de-sacs or plowing up our lots, or tearing down our houses, we tricked out our cars, confetti lit our bikes and blasted Blade Icewood from our kitchen windows.
The People United Will Never Be Defeated
“The People United Will Never Be Defeated” by Dave Robberts Sometimes described as a Svengali of the Detroit art scene, Dave Roberts has been an active gallerist and artist in the city for more than four decades. His approach and media are ever evolving but always harkens back to his affiliation with the Abstract Realist group of the mid 1990s. Part of our 2024 Fiction Issue.
The 2022 Fiction Issue
The Ghanaian symbol, the Sankofa, is represented by a bird with one foot stepping forward with its neck bent backward arching its head toward its back feathers. It represents the belief that in order to step into the future, we must look back and learn from our past. I have been thinking a lot about the future, but lately, every time I try to step forward through the doorway of a café or bar I pause, mask in hand, a little paralyzed by our new normal.
Homebound from Honduras: Economic opportunity in and out of Detroit
The author in Honduras. This first-person narrative is part of Detour Detroit’s economic mobility series. Read other essays and stories here. I always left Detroit for other opportunities. But I always came back. Right after high school, in 2008, I moved to Miami, to leave the clashes caused by the sudden appearance of a stepfather. After a year of community service in Miami, I moved back to help the city that gave so much to me.
The Mendota House: Generational wealth and inheritance in Detroit
The author’s great-grandmother at the Mendota house. This first-person narrative is part of Detour Detroit’s economic mobility series. Read other essays and stories here. The Mendota House. I am standing in the living room. The spot where my great-grandmother’s oversized sofa used to be is surrounded by discarded magazines, stained mail and trash left by the former tenants. This is all supposed to be mine.
How Building Community Value puts local development into the hands of Detroiters
This piece is part of a two-part series on solutions for economic mobility in Detroit. Read the other story on training Detroiters for work with living wages here. Chase Cantrell had arrived, and his credentials showed it. He graduated from the premier Renaissance High School, went on to graduate from the University of Michigan undergraduate and law schools and began working in corporate America for a major law firm in Detroit, helping to close client real estate deals.
The 2021 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issue
Page 13 of 20 Excerpt from Grievers By adrienne maree brown [Excerpt from Grievers, a novella by adrienne maree brown, set for release in fall 2021 to launch the Black Dawn Fiction imprint at AK Press] Dune let herself get close to the model city, the four tables covered in little plastic trees, patches of green felt for open space, small buildings gathered from board games, trinket stores, her own abandoned toy collections. It was always summer on the model.
The 2021 Detroit Metro Times Fiction Issue
Like many of us this year, I’ve found myself searching for hope anywhere I can find it. I’ve found it, in part, in Detroit’s arts community. Listen, I know it gets said all the time that Detroit’s creative commonwealth is “vibrant” and “thriving” and “rich” and all the other adjectives that, while true, have become cliche from hollow overuse. There is, however, one word that can’t be said enough: Detroit’s arts community is essential.
The Check In by Nandi Comer - Poems | Academy of American Poets
after Morgan Parker, after Wu-Tang in the morning I think about money green horned lord of my waking forest in which I stumbled toward no salvation prison made of emerald & pennies in my wallet I keep anxiety & a condom I used to sell my body but now my blood spoiled All my favorite songs tell me to get money I’d rob a bank but I’m a poet I’m so broke I’m a genius If I was white, I’d take pictures of other pictures & sell them I come from sharecroppers who come from slaves who do not come...
Pick Up Your Feelings (after Jazmine Sullivan)
By Nandi Comer They call. They message. Then the occasional tag on social media. I am wanting to check in on you… We are thinking of you… I am so so sorry… Then there I go again pounding my head sifting through thick air scattering names on a dusty floor It is morning. It is the afternoon, maybe the middle of some God-awful hour. I was calm. I was hunkered low, shades drawn maybe sipping a tea.
With life in Detroit slowed down by the pandemic, sit back and relax with stories from these literary luminaries
click to enlarge Illustration by Pat Perry This much is clear: democracy cannot exist without a free press. Citizens must have accurate and up-to-date information if they’re to make effective decisions about their government. As it turns out, it’s also very difficult to have a thriving arts community — the very conscience of our society — without newspapers like the Metro Times.
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