I Google My Assailant: A Found Essay with Commentary by Gwen Niekamp BWR 49.2 Nonfiction Contest Winner Click here to read “I Google My Assailant” by Gwen Niekamp Gwen Niekamp is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at Florida State University. She...
Mother Road by Lauren Hohle BWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Runner-Up Before she was my mother, my mother performed in a hallelujah band on an Alaskan cruise ship. She sang “Shine, Jesus Shine” and shook a tambourine and strummed a pock-marked Sears catalog guitar for three...
Theatre Masks by Dennis Mugaa BWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Winner I remember the day Gumato disappeared so clearly. We had just arrived from Johannesburg at six in the morning. We were outside the airport arrivals terminal. Our history teacher, Mr. T, was calling our...
Ars Poetica :: Worm Music by David Ehmcke BWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Runner-Up It was a worm in the mind. It felt like a worm in the mind. It was a germ of music in the mind made muddy with puddles of grief. It germinated, made a music out of muddy me,...
ANTI by Jade Yeung BWR 48.2 Chapbook Read ANTI here In which mom asks me what I need I attempt again A series of six Cantonese tone charts that graph the pitch and time of six tones....
Initiation by Chidi Onyia BWR 48.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up I stand on a huge red mud ridge that snakes from the base of the ancient hills, the remnants of a mudslide that occurred in antiquity when great tectonic forces pushed the ground upwards. Later when the people...
