2016 Contest Results!
2016 Contest Results!
43.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Ana Crouch Ureña
There has always been a mystery for me at the center of who my mother is…
2016 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Hoa Nguyen
Born in the Mekong Delta and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. She is the author of As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books, 2012), Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 (Wave Books, 2014), and Violet Energy...
2016 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Judge T Clutch Fleischmann
T Clutch Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty (Sarabande, 2012) and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay (Essay Press). An Emerging Writer in Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago and faculty member of the Stonecoast MFA, their work has appeared...
Review: FORTY-ONE JANE DOE’S by Carrie Olivia Adams
Forty-One Jane Doe's Carrie Olivia Adams 2013 Ahsahta Press 96 pages Review by RYAN BOLLENBACH Carrie Olivia Adams’s collection Forty-One Jane Doe’s is less obsessed with uncovering the mystery of life as it is with uncovering the mystery of the mystery of life. In...
42.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jennifer S. Cheng
Sometimes it helps to say it through a seashell. The sound of it washed in waves, loud yet silent, trailing in and out.
2016 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Judge Sofia Samatar
Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013) and The Winged Histories (Small Beer Press, 2016). Her work has received the John W. Campbell Award, the William L. Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World...
Chapbook Review: LETTERS TO COLIN FIRTH by Katherine Riegel
Letters to Colin Firth Katherine Riegel 2015 Sundress Publications 68 pages Review by ELIZABETH THERIOT In Letters to Colin Firth, Katherine Riegel writes a short letter every day of April to the British actor of Pride and Prejudice fame. The very first letter...
Review: BOY WITH THORN by Rickey Laurentiis
Boy with Thorn Rickey Laurentiis 2015 University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series) 104 pages Review by DIAMOND FORDE When questioned about writer’s block in an interview for a 2016 Poets & Writers publication, Rickey Laurentiis responded, “My obsessions...
2015 Contest: Fiction Runner-up FELLOWSHIP by Kimberly King Parsons
Writing by Kimberly King Parsons has appeared or is forthcoming in New South, Gigantic, Fiction Southeast, Fanzine, Time Out New York, and elsewhere. Ploughshares recently featured her story "Fiddlebacks" in their column "The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This...