FALL 2023
25th Anniversary Issue!
ANNUAL PRIZE WINNERS
Patricia Grace King
Pax Americana
Jonathan VanBallenberghe
Winchester Street: Living with my father’s suicide
Owen Lewis
Something’s Wrong, More Than Twice, and Waking Early This New Year’s Day.
UNCLASSIFIABLE CONTEST WINNER
Christy Sheffield Sanford
Wreck Tangles of Désirée Acking
POETRY
Ciaran Berry
States
The Last Days of the Amato Opera
Billy Collins
L’esprit D’escalier
Todd Davis
The Dam on Loup Run
The Bear Inside the Bear
Kathie Jacobson
Feynman, Joan
Still Life with Boat and Woman
Zachary Kluckman
Describe a Skull to Someone Who Has Never Seen One
Agree to Disagree
Half Sunken Home
Chelsea Rathburn
“…And That’s How People Burn to Death in Hotel Rooms”
On Failing to Feel What I Think I Ought at the Keats House, London
FICTION
Laura Cruser
Counting Mississippis
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Nolan Capps
Strange Fire
Kristin W. Davis
Willowbrook
Gila Green
Messianic Games
Alexandria Peary
Sleeping with Knickknacks
FLASH
Jessica Barksdale
Ready for Digging
Sophia Khan
Cells
Alyson Mosquera Dutemple
Pugilists
Anna Schachner
All My Appreciation
STAFF
Editor: Laura Newbern
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Peter Selgin
Fiction Editor: Chika Unigwe
Poetry Editor: Kerry James Evans
Managing Editor: Alexis Calhoun
Assistant Managing Editor: Cas McKinney
Assistant Editors:
Collin Bishoff
Timothy Connors
Jordan Crider
Sherri-Anne Forde
Rachel Kerger
Aron Liebig
Natalie Mau
Michaela Reed
Jonna Smith
Nathanael Williams