Flash Flood Winner—Michael Hammerle
Michael Hammerle Angel Numbers There’s a pattern I repeat. I'm looking for little moments of perfection, like synchronicities on digital clocks, to pray to. These are the moments it's easiest [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Angélica Martinez
Angélica Martinez The Hailstorm The hailstorm came on suddenly, do you remember? We were parked in our old Malibu listening to 101.5 back when the radio still worked. Sade’s "By [...]
Maha Kamal
Maha Kamal Peace Ganey Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest, Judged by Mike Robbins I started killing Hamza after he began work in Islamabad. His affair [...]
Nancy Huggett
Nancy Huggett The Perseids Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip The night of her first major stroke, we stay up to watch the Perseids. We [...]
Talia Adry
Talia Adry The Tide Pool Runner-up for the 2023 American Literary Review Essay Contest, Judged by Kendra Vanderlip I wanted to stay still that spring—in the moment before the golden-eyed grass produced [...]
Emily Van Kley
Emily Van Kley Dear Runner-up for the 2023 American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Judged by Brian Czyzyk Here is the cloud-addled sky,its long face dripping— the green backyardclutched in sun-snake & shadow. [...]
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach On the 100th Day of War in My Birthplace Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Judged by Brian Czyzyk The rhododendrons keep bloomingdespite the [...]
Flash Flood Winner–jessie knoles
jessie knoles BUY IT I want to go to the symphonyPut on my mohair sweaterThe one I bought at the steamy estate saleWhile you waited in the coffee shopDrinking your [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Olga Shomska
Olga Shomska Deer Story We all knew that the rain will be heavy. We got used to it. We built a hotel in the town center—high and large, to [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Timothy Wojcik
Timothy Wojcik In The Knotweeds We’d lived in a small apartment in a quiet neighborhood in Queens, and while that was better than the place in Brooklyn, once we [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Kayla Spirito
Kayla Spirito Jenni Jenni was the one who shaved my head. Moments after I met her she held a pair of scissors to one of my pigtails. Don’t you [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Silas Jones
Silas Jones Good Choices Two years ago, Connie McHale’s older sister Alexis got t-boned driving home drunk from a graduation party and even though she didn’t die and I’m [...]