2021 Contest: Interview with Nonfiction Judge Su Cho Su Cho is a poet and essayist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her essay “Cleaving Translation” won Sycamore Review’s Nonfiction Prize and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work can be found in GEN Medium, Black...
Walang Himala by Kiley McLaughlin BWR 47.2 Flash Contest runner-up In Agoo, La Union, Luzon, Philippines, Judiel Nieva was the seventh- born, a son who became or who was, all along, a daughter. It was ruled that Judiel had a statue of the Birhen run through with thin...
Alas Poor Fhoul by Gyasi Hall BWR 47.2 Nonfiction Contest runner-up I. BEFORE Two summers ago, Otterbein University, my undergrad, gave me five hundred dollars to travel to Alabama to visit the Richard Hail Research Center for African American Studies. Toni Morrison,...
Third by Katherine Yeejin Hur BWR 47.2 Nonfiction Contest winner I. Allegro ma non tanto I have always seen things in threes. 27 is my number, and though I don’t know if it is lucky, I know that it is mine. Three to the power of three. I am in my third year of college...
Vanitas Vanitatum by torrin a. greathouse BWR 47.2 Poetry Contest runner-up “The politics of cum are also its aesthetics” —Bradley Trumpfheller I was called a pansy before I was ever called a faggot. Flower-child. Wilted wrist. The Bradford Pear [pyrus...
