Reva Speaks a New Dialect by Shastri Akella BWR 2024 Fiction Contest Runner-up Reva doesn’t get a bridal welcome: she hears neither shehnai nor danka when her palanquin is lowered in front of her husband’s house, and when she steps out, in place of a group of women...
YAMABIKO 山彦 For two months, my brother lived with the yamabiko. When initial search-and-rescue efforts turned up empty-handed, the yamabiko understood that my brother, buried, was going to be a guest on his mountain until the weather conditions changed. In his...
50.2 Feature: “Close to the Slaughterhouse” by 2023 Nonfiction Contest Winner, Nadine Monem Nadine Monem is an Egyptian-Canadian writer and editor. She graduated with an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from Birkbeck (University of London) in 2021, and...
50.2 Feature: “Custodians” by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles Rick Hilles, a recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Fulbright, and a Whiting Writers Award, is the author of BROTHER SALVAGE and A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD. This...
50.2 Feature: “The Tick” by 2023 Flash Contest Winner, Emily Crossen Emily Crossen’s stories have appeared in Ecotone, New England Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story, where she received first prize in the 2022 Short Fiction Competition. She grew up in Pennsylvania...
