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...
50.2 Feature: “Forks of Buffalo” by 2023 Fiction Contest Winner, Ron MacLean Ron MacLean is the author of the story collections We Might as Well Light Something On Fire and Why the Long Face? and the novels Blue Winnetka Skies and Headlong, winner of the...
Annual Report; or, The Achievements of the Junior Colleague by Corey Van Landingham BWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Winner I restored the Capitol and the theatre of Pompey, both works at great expense without inscribing my own name on either. [….] I am pontifex maximus,...