2022 Spring Fiction Contest Winner
A Bed Filled with Birds by Faith Shearin
2022 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner
Ariel by Lucien Darjeun Meadows
2022 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest Winner
New Theories About (Our Obsession With) the Moon by Katherine Huang
Read commentary from our judges and editors about their selections here.
Fiction
The Lost Girls of Lupine Cabin by Anna Sheffer
2022 Spring Fiction Contest Runner Up
A Perfect Day for Christmas by James Sullivan
We Can’t Live Without the Birds and Animals by Lauren Barbato
Your Hollywood Jesus by Callie G. Mauldin
Nonfiction
Split the Baby by Lauren Rhoades
2022 Spring Nonfiction Contest Runner Up
Follow by Amanda Nyren
Misplaced Loyalties by Aisling Walsh
This Is Not The Essay I Meant To Write: On Writing Into Uncertainty by Meg Pillow
Poetry
Crepe Myrtles and All Those Other Blooming Trees by Hannah V. Warren
2022 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest First Runner-up
Lament by Lydia Golitz
2022 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest Second Runner-up
Adam in Eden by Shay Swindlehurst
2022 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest Honorable Mention
CORREGGIO by Lydia Golitz
Self-Portrait as Illumination by Carolyn Oliver
Things that Pierce by Corrine Wohlford Mason
Confession by Holli Carrell
Things I Can Remember by Jeff Whitney
Art
Cover Art
“Dragonfly Chakra” by Lori Arbel
3 Works by Ellery Beck
3 Works by Nicola Brayan
“Catharsis” by Jemah Curtis
4 Works by Nicoline Franziska
“1202” and “1208” by Matt Gold
“Clashing in Good Faith” and “I Lost Something in the Hills” by Mickey Haist Jr.
3 Works by Danielle Klebes
5 Works by Vaiva Kovieraitė-Trumpė
“The Map of A Myth V” and “The Map of A Myth VI” by Kwong Kwok Wai
3 Works by Zee Zee
Masthead
Editor-in-Chief – Timothy Johnson
Managing Editor – Kayla Hare
Fiction Editor – Kevin Binder
Assistant Fiction Editor – Bareerah Ghani
Nonfiction Editor – Lena Crown
Assistant Nonfiction Editor – Emilie Knudsen
Poetry Editor – Christian Stanzione
Assistant Poetry Editor – Lloyd Wallace
Webmaster and Social Media Manager – KS Keeney
Blog Editor – Leah Sumrall
Layout and Design Editor – Jihoon Park
Readers
Holly Bergman, Rose Fitzpatrick, Joseph Giglio, Julie Iannone, Alaina Johansson, Kierstin Kessler, Elena Macdonald, Chris McGlone, Thomas McKenzie, Ivan Moore, Susan Muth, Arianne Payne, Ashlen Renner, Sophia Ross, Arpita Roy, Stephanie Runyon, Erin Snyder, Kate Steagall, Grace Taber, Lizzie Terrell, Millie Tullis, and Andrew White