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Fall 2024

  • Yasmin Adele Majeed

    I felt that this maternal oblivion could be the rest of my life.

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  • Saddiq Dzukogi

    One who has suffered enough, you can love yourself to death.

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  • Julia Kolchinsky

    How much, I thought, such stolid suffering resembles love. Planets don’t change direction as easily as love.

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  • Brian Tierney

    I could go in for some pie why the hell not, there’s so little time.

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  • Bill Barich

    Fitzgerald was about to turn thirty and felt the press of time.

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  • Chase Twichell

    Strange then, strange now, that language wants to be alone with me.

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  • Canisia Lubrin

    How can anyone imagine sleep is possible in such a time?

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Fall 2024

Spring Contest Winners

  • Madelena GrossmannSomething Left Behind

Fiction

  • Canisia LubrinEarth in the Time of Billie Holiday
  • Yasmin Adele MajeedThe Clean-Out
  • Olufunke OgundimuDead Man’s Run
  • Lily PhilpottPa’ la Calle
  • Tryphena L. YeboahAny Good Child

Nonfiction

  • Bill BarichAntibes 1926: The Torment of Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gail GodwinThe Art of Becoming a Citizen:
    A Meditation

Narrative Outloud

  • Shirley HazzardThe Transit of Venus

Poetry Contest Winners

  • Saddiq DzukogiEgress
  • Julia KolchinskyAbout Suffering and Other Poems
  • Brian TierneyThis Close to Dark

Poetry

  • Mark Kyungsoo Bias
  • Madeleine Cravens
  • Chris Dombrowski
  • Daniel Halpern
  • Ted Kooser
  • Edward Salem
  • Alex Tretbar
  • Chase Twichell

Cartoons

  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2024-09
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2024-10
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2024-11

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  • Tom Jenks
  • Matthew Zapruder

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