Daniel O’Brien
Daniel T. O'Brien - Runner-Up, 2016 Poetry Contest Self-Portrait as Token [Offering] First, they took me from my mother and dressed me in my golden casing. I was directed into [...]
Lisa Buchanan
Lisa K. Buchanan - Runner-Up, 2016 CNF Contest A Bedtime Story From Your Future Sometimes you’re the pursued, screaming around the moonlit hills in a silver sled; more often, you’re [...]
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 [...]
Tara Deal
Tara Deal Mirror Finish I have a bit of metal sculpture in my bedroom. One palm-sized, smooth, shiny, aluminum, elephant-headed Hindu god from India on the nightstand. Minimal design on [...]
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 [...]
Jessica Guzman Alderman
Jessica Guzman Alderman The Visible World Our-Fathers start when the plane drops two, three times against the wind and whatever lightning elbows back. Surely someone hears the press of fingers [...]
Rachel Toliver- Legion
Rachel Toliver Legion Karen had been spacing out, but when PastorMike said the word demons she started paying attention. She wasn’t a secret Satanist. She liked some aspects of Satanist [...]