SPRING 2020
CONTEST WINNERS
POETRY, selected by Cyrus Cassells
Gabriella Fee, Trastevere
FICTION, selected by Amina Gautier
Temim Fruchter, Hungry
ESSAYS, selected by Reyna Grande
Kate McQuade, If I Don’t Answer
POETRY
Threa Almontaser, Muslim Girl With White Guys, Ending at the Edge of a Ridge; Operation Restoring
Lawrence Bridges, The Pessimistic Physician
Flower Conroy, The Weight of a Hummingbird
Robin Rosen Chang, Dead Horse Point
Romana Iorga, Nothing Left to Do
Whitney Kerutis, On Hunger and Birthing
Kathryn Merwin, Stephenson Lane
Matt W. Miller, Real Life
A. Molotkov, I close my eyes and silence
Bridget O’Bernstein, The Arrangement
Doug Ramspeck, the art of divination, dream of the ten rivers, renunciation
Nance Van Winckel, Past Life Reading: Record Keeping; Past Life Reading: Returning When the River’s Shallow; Past Life Reading: Wherewithal
John Sibley Williams, in the beginning the bodies were too soft
Connor Yeck, Sante Fe // Reliquary
ESSAYS
Steve Fellner, On Marxism, My Mother’s Body, and the State of Nonfiction
Charles Jensen, Spliced: Get Them to the Niche / Get Him to the Greek
Vincent Scarpa, The Sound of Silence
Rebecca Tan, Homesick
INTERVIEWS
I Have Always Been a Water Woman: An Interview with Kelly Grace Thomas