Author Archives: William Warren
Issue 41
Fall 2020
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Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner
L. I. Henley
Drive! (You’re Lost, Little Girl, You’re Lost)
Poetry Prize Winner
Karyna McGlynn
A Love Song to a Wicked Stepsister who Peaked in the ’80s
I Stand Outside This Woman’s Work
Upon Being Shot by the Shrink-Ray
Fiction Prize Winner
Desiree Evans
Flesh
Fiction
Will Richter
Howsa
Jody Hobbs Hesler
Alone
Amelia Brunskill
This One
Poetry
Kathleen Hellen
Rose Sutra
Without
Michael Sandler
Cicerone
Of Old Auras and Coronas
John Hazard
Hills
Night Sky, Atlantic Coast
Jean Prokott
The Birthday Effect
Ima Odong
Parable in Four Acts
meditation on disaster
John Moessner
Surveying the Flood
Gravity
Tara Westmor
These, I Remember Most
Michael Lavers
The New Self
For My Son, Age Four, Who Asked “How Can I Get Older?”
Creative Nonfiction
Ruth Gila Berger
Take One, Take Two, This Isn’t Working
Christie Tate
Eleven Ways of Looking at a Cat
Editor
Laura Newbern
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Kerry Neville
Fiction Editor
Jason Allen
Poetry Editors
Molly Brodak
Managing Editor
William Warren
Assistant Managing Editor
Kelsie Doran
Assistant Editors
Moriah Bray
William Gerdes-McClain
James Cody Phenis
Corey Cummings
Caleb Bouchard
Pushcart Nominations from Arts & Letters
We once again return to this exciting moment when we announce our annual nominations for the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Perhaps more than years past, we needed and cherished the works of poetry and prose published in Arts & Letters.
For the Pushcart Prize XLVI, we nominated:
Ruth Gila Berger, “Take One, Take Two, This Isn’t Working” (Issue 41, Fall 2020)
Desiree Evans, “Flesh” (Issue 41, Fall 2020)
Wes Civilz, “First Thing,” “Interrupter,” and “The Walk” (Issue 40, Spring 2020)
Francisco Gonzalez, “An Outline of Wellness” (Issue 40, Spring 2020)
Jenni Moody, “The Sound of Her Voice” (Issue 40, Spring 2020)
The Arts & Letters staff thanks all of our contributors and looks forward to reading and discovering the new work to be published in 2021.
Unclassifiable Contest 2020 Winner and Finalists
Our Unclassifiable Contest has ended, and a winner has been chosen by our judge, Michael Martone!
Winner: Kat Mustatea, “Voidoplois”
“All of the finalists were terrific. But I am going to go with ‘Voidopolis.’ It takes to heart and exploits the reality that a writer today is not simply a “writer” who writes, creating a text, but a media artist not using a 19th century typewriter but an extremely powerful typesetting machine now connected to the internet. I also was attracted to the ephemeral nature of the piece, its temporary-ness. A piece about the virus infects itself with its own digital virus that rewrites then erases the living codes. Huzzah!”
-Michael Martone
Finalists:
Matthew Burnside, “Excerpts from Salutis in Solitudine: a Game of Language and Loneliness”
Kevin Callaway, “Obituary: A Still Life with Islands”
Christine Hamm, “*Gorilla”
Amy Long, “Hash Mark”
Genevieve Monks, “The Rohr Shocke Test for Writers or Readers”
Thank you to all those who submitted, for stretching our minds and engaging our imaginations! We hope to see your work again next year!