Dear readers, Welcome! Our team is thrilled to share our Spring 2024 Contest issue with you. This is my third year as a member of phoebe — I first joined as a fiction reader, then as Managing...
“Abstract Waterfall” Oil Kelly Haneklau is a free-lance multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in oil and acrylic. Her subject matter ranges from abstract, still life realism,...
Alison Granucci When out of the great cosmos of all creation a bird arrives as the new shape of your mother returning from the dead, tell me, what does it not have to teach about the nature...
“Harborside Sunrise” Digital drawing “Xmas Eve, 1990” Digital drawing Albert John Belmont is a contemporary artist based in New Hampshire. Working since the mid-’90s,...
Chanlee Luu a church on nearly every block: Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Evangelical. She doesn’t know the difference; what she does remember is the Bible quotes inserted—editing...
“Lonesome” Photography Anne Anthony is a digital collage artist living in North Carolina. Her artwork graced the covers of two literary journals, Cracked the Spine and Bartleby Snopes....
Phoebe Phelps I fell in love when I was twenty-nine and he was thirty-two, a respectable age difference. Preferable, actually, because they say men mature more slowly than women. And just in time...
“Pacific Waterleaf” Photography Talitha May is a Portland, Oregon based artist who teaches at Portland State University. Her work appears in Composition Studies, The Shanghai Literary...
p. hodges adams 2024 Poetry Spring Contest Winner the first hand had square knuckles, like a boy; the second hand could hold a teacup neatly; the third hand was furious. i’m getting ahead of...
Rebecca Bernard They agree to meet on instant messenger at midnight. He’s usually on AIM at that hour, gifted with a computer in his bedroom, but she must sneak to the family computer, mute the...
