Issue 11 / 2020
our first annual issue!

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COVER ART by Rochelle Asquith

Content

8TH ANNUAL CONTEST WINNERS Kayleb Rae Candrilli (poetry) "I wish all children could touch the sky at least once"
Jen Cox-Shah (flash fiction) "Take Their Body"

POETRY
Collin Callahan "Salt & Pepper Diner"
Hallie Chametzky "Unexpectedly, the Oranges"
Alan Chazaro "Spacesuit, or Learning How to Float through Public Space"
Reilly D. Cox "In Which I Smother My Fascist"
Lauren Eggert-Crowe "I Have Not Taken Proper Advantage of Scorpio Season"
Melissa Goodrich "When You Write Your Thanksgiving Card to the Police After Your Brain Was Stolen and You Needed Help Filing the Incident Report"
Rachel Harkai "Love in the Anthropocene"
Ally Harris "After I Kissed Your Crush" & "I Threw My Underwear at a Volvo and Woke Up with It in My Hand"
Anthony Thomas Lombardi "Aubade with Nina Simone, Who Sang "Sinnerman" & the Whole World Lost Its Balance"
Emma William-Margaret Rebholz "Hometown Hero"
Jane Riley "The Self of Weeds"
Sara Quinn Rivara "Annunciation"
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith "Of the Macho"
Debra Faith Warshaw "Fat Queen"
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen "Brainchild"
​Clare Welsh "Pelt"​

​ART
Kanako Abe Hand-Cut Paper 
"Cradle", "Sun Hands", & "Moon Ritual"
​Rochelle Asquith Ink on Paper
"Dream Home" & "I Like It Here"

​CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Brendan Curtinrich "True Owl"
Paula Marafino Bernett "How a Person Becomes a Body"
Laura Brzyski "Leftovers"
Lana Spendl "Francisco, from My Class"
Tom McAllister "2008"​

FICTION 
Tara Isabel Zambrano "Separation"
Amy Zimmerman "After Ariana Grande"
Kate Finegan "And Even Still the Rivers"
Dan Goff "All the Earth Has Become a House"
Ellen Rhudy "Higher! Higher!"

​COMICS 
Chloe Martinez Ink on Paper with Digital Text "specific need", "ostrich egg", "goddess", "wildness", & "shadow"
Meg Reynolds Archival Ink and Graphite on Paper "Alice", "Scorpion", & "Pantry"

BOOK REVIEWS 
Metamorturary by Dylan Kreiger reviewed by Emiliann Ferguson
Mothmouth by Haley Wooning reviewed by ​Clare Welsh​

Masthead

​Editor in Chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick
Art & Design Editor / Layout & Design | meg willing
Assistant Poetry Editor | Tafisha A. Edwards
Fiction Editor | Zach Yontz
Assitant Fiction Editor | Anthony Michael Morena
Creative Non-Fiction Editor | LaTanya McQueen
Assistant Creative Non-Fiction Editor | Jenny Robertson
Teen Sequins Editor | Sophie Klahr
Editors Emeritus | Ian Carlos Crawford & Shereen Adel
Readers | Audrey Gidman, Dave Gregory, Sara La Cotti, Saul Lemerond, & Ashley Pabilonia

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