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...
Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim Tsum. You can visit her at sabrinaorahmark.com. For the Safety of Our Country by Sabrina Orah Mark Listen to Sabrina Orah Mark read “For the Safety of Our...
Alex Terrell is pursuing her Master of Arts in English at the University of Maine, Orono and is currently researching prospective MFA and PhD programs. Her research interests include representations of individuated Black experience and Black bodies, magical realism,...
I’m taken by the haunting peculiarity built into the atmosphere in Drager’s work alongside prose that registers as so sharp and deeply felt, in this story and her most recent novel, The Lost Daughter Collective. Inviting a conversation about who gets to...