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2026 Spring Fiction Contest Winner

Your Mouth Gets Well by Lane Michael Stanley

2026 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner

Yellow by T.C. Martin

2026 Spring Poetry Contest Winner

Ignite by Daniel Lurie

Read some of the judges commentary on the winners here.

Fiction Runners-Up

A History of Smoking, Hit-and-Run, and Monsoon Season: A Flash Collection by Matthew Torralba Andrews

Below Parallel by Aurora Bodenhamer

Unsolicited Malady by Danielle Bradley

The Players by Sarah Destin

In the Dissonance by Maggie Hart

The Boy Who Almost Smiled by Wasima Khan

Hulk Princess Birthday Party by Sharon S.Y. Lee

The Venus of Oklahoma City by Leah Mullen

Nonfiction Runners-Up

Port Angeles, Summer, 2009 by Carson Sandell

protostar by jael jean

“Summer, 1998” and “The Word for Bowl” by Thuy Phan

Dios le pague by Anna María del Pilar Suben

Poetry Runners-Up

Jupiter Window by Adriana Grant 

Ghazal Beginning With a Line by Frank O’Hara by adam gianforcaro

DANIELO HOME MOVIES [Last night, in bed, I heard the ocean] by Ja’Net Danielo

The Strange Architecture of Things by Grace McGovern

The Day The Women Walked Out From Their Frames by Amanda Chiado

Oscillating Bathrub, 1899 by Ross White

I Fucking Hate the Portland Trail Blazers by Samuel Piccone

Contentment by Donna Vorreyer

WHY DADDY SOLD THE MACHINE by SP Mulroy

Still Life with Hurricane Helene by Anna Drasko

Art Gallery

Robin Young

Rebecca Wood

Nuala McEvoy

JC Henderson

A.J. Belmont

Ellen June Wright

Ibrahim Ajani Lawal

Lane Black

Isabella Balbi

Allison Hopson

Wendy Greenhut

Bradley David Waters

Alina Strelkovskaia

Electra Pelias

Leah Oates

Robert Kenter

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief – Jacob Sharp
Managing Editor – Lee Krauss
Poetry Editor – Taylor Franson-Thiel
Assistant Poetry Editor – McKinley Johnson
Fiction Editor – Scott Hovdey
Assistant Fiction Editor – Griffin Hamstead
Nonfiction Editor – Austin LaVigne
Assistant Nonfiction Editor – David McMullen
Website Editor – Elena Macdonald
Social Media Editor – Meg Paulson
Incarcerated Writers Project Co-Coordinators – Katey Funderburgh & Maya Gudapati
Incarcerated Writers Project Co-Assistants – Sydney Floyd & Mckenan Bundy

Faculty Advisor  – Jason Hartsel

Art Committee

Scott Hovdey, McKinley Johnson, Austin LaVigne, Lee Krauss, Elena Macdonald, Jacob Sharp, Taylor Franson-Thiel

Fiction Readers

Grace Donovan, Serena Grant, Jennifer Handford, Connor Harding, Alexander Holcomb, Erin Hoskins, Marissa Joyce, Shay McIntosh, Thomas McKenzie, Austin Miles, Abigail Mills, Kobimtochi Odo, Ezra Pilar Rodriguez, Grace Wood

Nonfiction Readers

Gemmalee DyerMok, Syd Floyd, Ian Garrabrant, Katherine Harnisch, Nikki Kazimova, Elena Macdonald, Chris Mcglone, Colleen McLean, Faith Palermo, Cheyenne Paterson

Poetry Readers

Noa Cohen, Maeve Flusser, Riley Johnston, Elena Macdonald, Isabella Newman, Elizabeth Ottenritter, Victoria Reynolds, Mariah Salazar-Solorzano, Rowan Stubblebine

IWP Readers

Chris Baah, Jessica Blanton, Jessika Bouvier, Kristen Brida, Jennifer Brown, Priyanka Champaneri, Kat Colvert, Lisa Corley, Jen Daniels, Will Fawley, Michaela “Mickey” Godding, Serena Grant, Connor Harding, Erin Hoskins, Margaret Hutton, Emilio Iasiello, Riley Johnston, Shellie Kalinsky, Judy Leserman, Amanda Mendoza, Victoria Mendoza, Austin Miles, Sharon Ritchy, Patti Russo, Shabryle Setliff, Kelsey Shelton, Kylie Smith, Rowan Stubblebine, Brailey Vine, Sakshi Wadhwa, Mary Winsor

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

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