Issue 43

FALL 2021

ANNUAL PRIZE WINNERS

The Tax of Quick Alarm
Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell

Karen Day
The Cellar

L. A. Johnson
Downriver
Radiant Stranger
House Full of Someones
Where Warm and Cool Air Meet

POETRY

Michael Waters
Anxious Eclogue
Needlefish
Pine Grove Lodge

Joshua Garcia
Post-Op
Flight

Anne Barngrover
Love When It’s Hard
The Sea Urchin Spines

Nicholas Samaras
From Genre of Trespass: (24)
(27)
(29)

Yerra Sugarman
[Before the city became rind and marrow]
[Who knows how light works]

Elisabeth Murawski
Inlay
The Request

Arthur Vogelsang
Central Park
More Human

Kay Cosgrove 
Lisbon
Ars Poetica Sex Poem

FICTION

E. A. Bagby
Echo and Narcissus

Emma Wunsch
Pick Up

Brett Armes
All of Them Stars in Heaven Shall Fall

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Sonja Livingston
Phonics Lessons

Kevin Callaway
Obituary: A Still Life with Islands

 

FLASH FICTION

Dog Cavanaugh
Great Debates to Have

Andrew Kane
Ohmage

STAFF

Editor: Laura Newbern
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Peter Selgin
Fiction Editor: Chika Unigwe
Poetry Editor: Kerry James Evans
Managing Editor: William Warren
Assistant Managing Editor: Darian Araiza-Samples
Assistant Editors: 
Lori Tennant
William Gerdes-McClain
Shannon Yarbrough
Dalton Monk
Courtney Schmidt
Caleb Bouchard