Abigail Ham 2023 Spring Nonfiction Contest Winner I Fight and flight are the typical human reactions to threat, but they’re not the only possibilities. Children in general can’t fight or...
Maeve Barry 2023 Spring Fiction Contest Winner Janet lies in the bathtub with the phone shouldered to her ear. In a long lace dress with its back zipper open. It sags off her chest. She sits in her...
Julie Marie Wade Maybe it starts here: bright swatch of color behind the closet door, yellow as a fisherman’s slicker. The swatter, they called it, and you thought about it even when you weren’t...
Celia Cummiskey A young Roman woman walks along the bank of the river Tamesis. She is thinking perhaps of her parent’s home some hundreds of miles away from Londinium where she now lives, or of...
“The View is not the Route” “Elegies are not symphonies” “Verbena” Amanda Hartzell AMANDA HARTZELL is a writer, artist, and mom. She is the author of two poetry books, The Heart Never...
“Leaves” Kes Crow KES is an illustrator, author, and artist, based in Lincolnshire, England. “I create mostly minimal work with delicate lines and subtle colours, inspired by the quiet, nature,...
Robin Babb “Utopia is uninhabitable. As soon as we reach it, it ceases to be utopia. As evidence of this sad but ineluctable fact, may I point out that we in this room, here and now, are inhabiting...
“Harvest Moon” “Hot Pink” “Fpainting” Elizabeth Schoonmaker ELIZABETH SCHOONMAKER is a multidisciplinary artist and lives in the Town of Plainfield in Upstate N.Y. Through her...
“Liminal” Peyton Fultz PEYTON FULTZ is a Maryland-based acrylic painter known for her vibrant and textured works of art. Her paintings have been published in Flossy Lit Magazine and Beyond Queer...
Phillip Crymble ——— for Robert Lowell At Roosevelt, the orderlies were forced to break your wrists — the large brown-paper parcel that you clutched against your breastbone heldin place...
