Flash Flood Winner—Shruti Goel
Shruti Goel Zari The gauzy wedding mandaps, laden by the sea, shimmered like they would in a glossy magazine. The sunlight bounced off every metallic surface possible—bangles, chair backs, even [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Amanda Gaines
Amanda Gaines To Flame Your sister has killed you six times. Before she resorted to unnecessary violence, she handled you gently. Placed you on her water-ringed windowsill on fourteen separate [...]
Flash Flood October 2025
Flash Flood October 2025 Essay "Contrafabula" by Nancy Huggett Fiction "Growth" by Catherine Reedy Poetry "Motel Interlude" by Sophie Klahr
Dayna Bateman
Dayna Bateman Deracination, Or How to Disappear Winner of the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Essays, Judged by Jaquira Díaz deracinate /dɪˈrasɪneɪt/ 1. uproot. 2. to remove or separate [...]
Lauren Barbato
Lauren Barbato The Great Renunciation Winner of the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Fiction, Judged by Kimberly Garza When Lian traded the dharma for a baby, I’d just hung [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Mish Gajewski-Zambataro
Mish Gajewski-Zambataro woman in the reservoir we’d thought we’d found a corpse when we came upon her floating. we thought, maybe this is the waitress who’d disappeared last month from [...]
Zoë Luh
Zoë Luh 陸 Second Runner-up for the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carolina Ebeid multiple-choice tongue/暴力 Zoë Luh 陸 (they/she) is a queer, disabled, mixed Chinese-American [...]
Monica Fields
Monica Fields Blue Camellias First Runner-up for the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carolina Ebeid How often I think of this photo of my mother— Her [...]
Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe
Marhyilda Obasiota Ibe Post-colonial Theory Winner of the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Poetry, Judged by Carolina Ebeid In the first republic, my grandfather was a ship boy. To [...]
Flash Flood Winner – Atzaed Arreola trans. by Rachel Whalen
Flash Flood Winner—Atzaed Arreola translated by Rachel Whalen Página en blanco Fue a las 19:30 horas cuando los agentes del Ministerio Público encontraron una Lap topamordazada con una cinta roji-negra [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Brian Coughlan
Fighting Talk Your strategy to win the crowd over with a dazzling display of fancy footwork and lightning-quick jabs has changed, just this second: now it’s close your eyes tight [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano Slumdog Wives Let’s face it—we’re not all that beautiful, we have bad postures due to heavy lifting at the construction sites, sleeping at odd angles in [...]