2016 Contest: Poetry Runner-up HEAVEN MAKE ME A WARRIOR TO SLAY ALL THE BAD MAGIC by Lauren Eggert-Crowe
2016 poetry judge Hoa Nguyen selected “Heaven Make Me a Warrior to Slay all the Bad Magic” by Lauren Eggert-Crowe as the poetry runner-up.
2016 Contest: Fiction Runner-up TELL ME A STORY ABOUT LIONS by Abby Horowitz
“Tell Me a Story About Lions” is a fairytale with teeth. It brings together the figures of the mother and the carnivore, pitting care of the self against caring for others. The results are gripping, unsettling, and delicious.
2016 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Winner Kirsten Ihns
I think humor is, or can be, fundamentally subversive—it’s like irony, but more joyous, for me.
43.2 Feature: Melissa R. Sipin Reads MY LOLA, THE RIVER
Click here for more 43.2 featured content. Nicknamed "small but terrible" by her lola, Melissa R. Sipin was born and raised in Carson, CA. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things (Carayan Press 2014) and is Editor-in-Chief of TAYO Literary Magazine. Her work is...
2016 Contest: An Interview with Nonfiction Winner Rocket Caleshu
I see a relation between the provisionality of inhabiting a trans identity and the provisionality of writing as critical practice, and I wanted to convey that in the essay.
National Poetry Month: from HOUSE OF DEER by Sasha Steensen
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. "In an excerpt from “House of Deer,” Sasha Steensen...
2016 Contest: An Interview with Fiction Winner Ava Tomasula y Garcia
I’d been writing “Videoteca” for at least six years, in a notebook in which I collect pretty much everything: accounts of interactions, transcriptions of news reports on the tv, my own diary entries.
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by James A.H. White
While in line with a few friends to clench my way through Disneyworld’s Hollywood Studios’ The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a ride that mimics the (repeated) plummeting of a 13-story service elevator, I eavesdropped on the young boy and girl waiting behind me as they asked their father what exactly it was they were about to experience.
National Poetry Month: MYSTERY WRITTEN INSIDE MY PALM by Beth Bachmann
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. "How intriguing a palm is. A word, a shape, a...
43.2 Feature: An Interview with Ron A. Austin
I grew up in the neighborhood explored in “Muscled Clean Out the Dirt.” My grandparents owned small businesses in the city which ended up being gutted and eaten up by urban blight despite their best efforts and hard labor.