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Winter 2023

  • Dean Rader

    Writing is about toeing the line of confidence and terror.

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  • Katherine Heiny

    And so it was clear that Mia was still basically a teenager.

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  • mal profeta

    i learned to save lives from a man who reminded me of my father

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  • Laura Budofsky Wisniewski

    Yes, Sweetness, a white shadow shimmers on the X-ray of the future.

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  • Emily Besh

    The clearest memory was when his father shot a grizzly.

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  • Donald Hall

    He would write a poem on one page, but it might take him months.

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  • Phoebe Stone

    Nothing was permanent, no friend I made, no math test I took.

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Winter 2023

Fall Contest Winners

  • Janet BurrowayStraight Home
  • Tiffany IsaacsSea Mud
  • Andrew SteinerBlake Haveman

Fiction

  • Carol DinesThe Saturday Morning Institute
    of Human Survival
  • Heinz Insu FenklCrows, 1950
  • Katherine HeinyDamascus
  • Nazlı KocaThe Applicant
  • Jill McCorkleAct III
  • David McGlynnDusters

Nonfiction

  • Bill BarichA Palazzo in Florence
  • Phoebe StoneRingworm and the Blue Madonna

Narrative Outloud

  • Sara HoughtelingThe Audition
  • Tom JenksTom Jenks on Editing
    The Garden of Eden

Narrative 10

  • Will Schwalbe

Poetry

  • W. H. Auden
  • Colin Bailes
  • DeeSoul Carson
  • Daniel Mark Epstein
  • Caroline Falzone
  • Henry Goldkamp
  • Tory Huff
  • Anthony Immergluck
  • Maja Lukic
  • Julia McDaniel
  • mal profeta
  • Dean Rader
  • Doug Ramspeck
  • Anne Lovering Rounds
  • Laura Budofsky Wisniewski

Classics

  • Anna AkhmatovaSlepnevo, 1916
  • Osip Mandelstam#196, 1923
  • Marina TsvetaevaMay 3, 1915

iPoems

  • Madeleine CravensNarrative
  • David GrubinSundials Are Sad Like That
  • Richard QuigleyLong Run

Cartoons

  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2023-01
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2023-02
  • Various ArtistsCartoon Art Volume 2023-03

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