Carol Duran Quinn
Carol Duran Quinn Darién The tracks began to curve, and there was a cry in the curve of them, but it was not the sound of brakes. Steel bore down [...]
Sam Sax
sam sax - Winner, 2016 Poetry Contest From contest judge, Melissa Kwasny: "It is the poem's immediacy that strikes me each time I read it, a north-wind immediacy that is [...]
Lara Lillibridge
Lara Lillibridge - Winner, 2016 CNF Contest From contest judge Charles D'Ambrosio: The essay must lap us about and draw its curtain across the world —so says Virginia Woolf, and if [...]
Amorak Huey
Amorak Huey Doing Yard Work in Michigan, I Recall Visiting Ground Zero the Week the United States Invaded Iraq When our neighbor’s aging catalpa tree comes down, it’s almost sure [...]
Courtney Zoffness
Courtney Zoffness - Winner, 2016 Fiction Contest From contest judge Merritt Tierce: "Peanuts Aren't Nuts" deals so masterfully with the bridge between innocence and adulthood—that rotten bridge that falls away behind [...]
Peter Justin Newall
Peter Justin Newall - Runner-Up, 2016 Fiction Contest The Chinese General The first couple of days back on land after a voyage were always difficult for Krysanov. He had never [...]
Dagoberto Gilb
"Pleasure, Reward, Activism": An Interview with Dagoberto Gilb Interview conducted by Kimberly Garza Dagoberto Gilb is the author of five books of fiction—The Magic of Blood, The Last Known Residence [...]