2024 Spring Fiction Contest Winner
Idaho Wolves by Kath Richards
2024 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner
The Lyric Ear by Megan J. Arlett
2024 Spring Poetry Contest Winner
self-portrait with three hands by p. hodges adams
Read commentary from our judges and editors about their selections here.
Fiction
Wolfpacking by Nolan Capps
2024 Spring Fiction Contest Runner Up
Better Late Than Never by Amita Basu
Field Notes on Being by Rebecca Bernard
Fourteen to Twenty-Nine by Dawn Miller
Nonfiction
Half-lives of empathy by Somi Jun
2024 Spring Nonfiction Contest Runner Up
Teacher Bird: or Meditations on Phoebe by Alison Granucci
Hanged/drawn/quartered, or, imagining my great-grandmothers’ hands on a Sunday morning, in four parts by jade guthrie
In Martinsville (2021) by Chanlee Luu
Old Friends by Rebecca Weil
Robert de Niro by Phoebe Phelps
Poetry
I’m glad my grandma died before she could see me get fat by Bleah Patterson
2024 Spring Poetry Contest Runner Up
Sometimes he calls out for Baby. Sometimes Baby runs by Sara Burge
Discount Tobacco, Cold Beer Cave by Samuel Ellington
Blood Relative by Cassie Flint Fancher
Here it is by Jane Feinsod
puzzle by Hailey June Gross
Young Woman by Melissa McEver Huckabay
The Origin of a Simple Rhythm by Prosper C. Ìféányí
As Demeter by Stefanie Kirby
tidying idea by caroline ganci patterson
Art
“Cahoots” by Katy Stewart
Cover Art
“Nurture” & “Volcanic Pipeline” by Katy Stewart
“Temptation,” “Wealth in Excess,” & “Prism” by Peyton Fultz
“Solar Sail” by Marsha Solomon
“October Brook Abstract 3.5” by Kelly DuMar
“Wait It Out” & “And so we see…” by K. G. Ricci
“Colorkoshiepta2024″ & “ColorDekapende” by Cynthia Yatchman
“Ceremony” & “Story Time” by Shagufta Mulla
“Abstract Waterfall” by Kelly Haneklau
“Beatrice Dominguez” by MariaTeresa Ortiz-Naretto
“Education for All“ by Guilherme Bergamini
“Harborside Sunrise” & “Xmas Eve, 1990“ by Albert John Belmont
“Nest with Egg” by Rachel Singel
“Pacific Waterleaf” by Talitha May
Masthead
Editor-in-Chief – Sophia Ross
Managing Editor – Taylor Schaefer
Poetry Editor – Susan Muth
Assistant Poetry Editor – Victoria Reynolds
Fiction Editor – K. R. Mullins
Assistant Fiction Editor – Connor Harding
Nonfiction Editor – Ashlen Renner
Assistant Nonfiction Editor – Faith Palermo
Website Editor – Elena Macdonald
Social Media Editor – Nicholas Ritter
Layout and Design Editor – Bri Chapman
Incarcerated Writers Project Editor – Chelsea Lebron
Faculty Advisor – Jason Hartsel
Art Editorial Team
Readers
Abigail Mills, Angelina Morin, Arpita Roy, Austin LaVigne, Bareerah Ghani, Bodie Fox, Bri Chapman, Camille Rimbawa, Elizabeth Terrell, Elena Macdonald, Gracie Donovan, Ivan Antonio Moore, Jacob Sharp, Jaime Goh, Chris McGlone, Jessika Bouvier, Joseph Giglio, Katherine Harnisch, Katey Funderburgh, Madeline Merritt, Mark Perkins, Maya Gudapati, Radhika Wheelock, Sarah Jordan, Scott Hovdey, Serena Grant, Shabnam Bozzelli, Sophia Ross, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Taylor Schaefer, Thomas Mckenzie
Special Thanks
Jason Hartsel, David S. Carroll, Kathryn Mangus and the George Mason University Office of Student Media, Gregg Wilhelm and the George Mason University Creative Writing Program