MASTHEAD editor in chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick art & design editor / layout & design | meg willing fiction editor | Zach Yontz assistant fiction editor | Anthony Michael Morena poetry editor | Tafisha A. Edwards creative non-fiction editor | LaTanya McQueen teen sequins editors | Sophie Klahr & Robert Auld editors emeritus | Shereen Adel & Ian Carlos Crawford readers | Lucas Bailor, Jessica Bergquist, Laura Brzyski, Audrey Gidman, Dave Gregory, Sara La Cotti, Saul Lemerond, Ashley Pabilonia, Lauren Saxon, Sara Volpi
FEAUTURING: WINNERS of our 7th annual summer contests, POETRY from Kari Ann Ebert, selected by celeste doaks, and FLASH FICTION by Julia Coursey, selected by Rachel B. Glaser
ART by Best of Math Class and Scott Minzy
POETRY by Thea Anderson, Rachel J. Bennett, Evelyn Berry, Stephen Brown, Dorothy Chan, Joshua Clayton, Chelsea B. DesAutels, jayy dodd, Joseph M. Gerace, Shelby Handler, Len Lawson, and, Jacob Nantz
FICTION by Ben Gitkind, Cathy Ulrich, and Zach VandeZande
CREATIVE NONFICTION by Rebecca Meacham and Judy T. Oldfield
BOOK REVIEW of The Empty Season by Catherine Bresner, reviewed by Kim Jacobs-Beck