Ira Sukrungruang
Ira Sukrungruang Passed Away I tell my four-year-old son his fish RB has passed away. I say “passed away” because “died” and “dead” contain the same hard sound at the [...]
Spring 2024
Spring 2024 Fiction Contest Judged by SJ Sindu R.M. Cooper, Neighborly (Winner) Meghan O'Toole, Awe and Wonder and Delight (First Runner-up) Chi S., In a Village That No One Has [...]
Diepreye
Diepreye Abecedarian in Which Òrìṣà Ọya Warns Nigeria of Imminent British Occupation Second Runner-up for the 2024 American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Judged by Denise Duhamel Acres of purslane and tamarind surround [...]
Jordan Hamel
Jordan Hamel The new husbands of Michigan First Runner-up for the 2024 American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Judged by Denise Duhamel I stare into the YMCA water fountain and find myself wet [...]
KT Herr
KT Herr Leitmotif with norovirus and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Winner of the 2024 American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Judged by Denise Duhamel I know I won’t get into heaven. [...]
Jackie Chicalese
Jackie Chicalese Subsidence One minute, 25-year-old Marie Mitchell was handing young Jule Ann Fulmer a piece of fruit as they walked along Mill Street in Pittston. Moments later, her 2-year-old [...]
Olivia Sio Tse
Olivia Sio Tse A Favor Make everything stay: the cans in the yard, cat on its sill. Twist- off dusk a mint melting the valley’s tongue. I want every year [...]
Alexis Sears
Alexis Sears After My Mother’s Cancer Returns, I Start Praying Every Night and God says, “Well, well, well, what have we here? Been ages and you suddenly appear now, kneeling [...]
Arnisha Royston
Arnisha Royston cutting bell peppers three targets and a single occupancy restroom in the back of a chicken and waffles restaurant, not roscoes. this is important because lack of details [...]
Patrick Holian
Patrick Holian Hamburger University I. Tell me everything you’ve eaten since the fires. My grandmother’s china is filled with titan rain, worried men with dark shadows beneath their eyes who [...]
Mckendy Fils-Aimé
Mckendy Fils-Aimé Paté i hate rush hour, but i endure gridlock in the belly of a boston suburb to buy paté at a new haitian bakery. the new haitian bakery [...]
Jane Donohue
Jane Donohue Cartesian Split All things were together. Then the mind came and arranged them. — Anaxagoras I introduce myself to my body, name my legs and elbows, make small [...]