Cover Art by Camila Garcia
RAY VENTRE MEMORIAL NONFICTION PRIZE
Stephanie Minyoung Lee: Floating Bridge
Daniel Garcia: Promise Me You Won’t Tell
Jenifer Sang Eun Park: You Eat Around The Fly
ELINOR BENEDICT POETRY PRIZE
Yong-Yu Huang: Aviary
A. Prevett: Triptych with Oleo-Saccharum and Abandoned Old Navy Dress
SHORT-SHORTS
Gerardo Sámano Córdova: Forgotten / City / Church .
Jieyan Wang: chang’e
Tiffany Hsieh: Sleep Stuffed
Noa Covo: In Which I Sell My Fingerprints
Crystal K: Until After
Matthew Mastricova: I See the Future at My Wedding to the Tomato from VeggieTales / A Few Layers of Skin / Gilgogjgy
Kelly Gray: The History of Glaciers
Star Su: Original Taste / 原味
Yunya Yang: The Doctor Says Roots Are Growing Around Her Heart
Carson Faust: swallow the cherry-pit
Scott Garson: Act Two / Trip / Market
Katerina Ivanov Prado: Hot Dentist
Kyle Flak: Cliff City / RC Cola / Hello I am the Sun
Malinda McCollum: The Goldfish
Lucy Zhang: Why I’m dry tonight and every night
Alyson Mosquera Dutemple: Alice Experiences Some Difficulties Reacclimating to Life After Her Adventures
Holly M. Wendt: August / Spinster
FICTION
Max Delsohn: Moon Over Denny-Blaine
Emily Yang: in the mood for love
Joe Baumann: Close the Door on this Laughing Heart
Nathan Willis: Gemini
Dayneé Alejandra Rosales: Fredo’s Ashes
Kira K. Homsher: Offerings
Julie Cadman-Kim: The Change
POETRY
Akhim Yuseff Cabey: Don’t Call Me ‘Brother’
Albert Abonado: About The Horses / The God I Know Eats With Its Hands
Isabella Piedad Escamilla: Sloan / Maggie, Lost in the Andromeda Galaxy
Moni Brar: Interweave
Evy Shen: Definitions of Light / Phantom
Sonja Vitow: Seltzer Bottles
Jane Morton: Snake Lore
Anthony Thomas Lombardi: Nature
Saba Keramati: After 9/11 We Wonder if We Should Ever Celebrate
Maria Isabelle Carlos: From the Inventory of Images I Cannot Unsee
Jose Hernandez Diaz: “Gangster’s Paradise” Mid 90’s / The Rooster Man
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick: There Are Leaves That Have Loved Me
Michael Lauchlan: Cold Midnight
Wesley Sexton: La Traviata on YouTube Again
Kelly Weber: North of Hell
Kolbe Riney: gooseflesh
Anna Šverclová: Lake Ocean // Phenomenon
Andy Butter: Lip-Read Love Poem for Brother
E. Hughes: from The Accounts of Mammy / Pleasant
NONFICTION/HYBRID
W. Todd Kaneko: The Night of the Skywalkers
Rolando-André Lopez: you know it, or ya tú sa’e: una poéticaautobioficticia, noun manifiesto, (les qre, x100pre)
Marcus Clayton: Napoleon Solo
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: Vita Speculativa / Boreas and Auster
Michelle Donahue: A Catbird Chases the Wind
Liz Iversen: Things We Keep Hidden
Youngseo Lee: Islanders
Mathew Hawkins: Home Home
Steven Pfau: Rebus
Kelsey Ward: Insomnium
Julien Strong: The October Two of My Friends Planned Double Mastectomies