Issue 12 / 2021

ORDER

COVER ART by Blessing Anne Culver

Content

9TH ANNUAL CONTEST WINNERS
Ella Bartlett (poetry) "Family Absence"
Elizabeth Upshur (flash fiction) "motherfucker"

POETRY
Nora Claire Miller "A University Is an Object Made of Metal and Wires and Discs"
Corine Huang "holding, a disambiguation"
Olumide Manuel "Thick Threne"
Anthony Thomas Lombardi "moral inventory"
Julia C. Alter "Some Dark Familiar"
Kathryne David Gargano "some small delicacy"
Sarah Swinford "Never Let a Poet Play Video Games"
Mónica Gomery "Ode"
Hannah Cajandig-Taylor  "Echolocation" & "You, The Bioluminescent Girl"
Rhienna Renée Guedry "First the Grasshopper"
Kevin Latimer "Love Poem in the Zoetrope"
Mag Gabbert "The Breakup"
Miriam Alex "The Fundamentals of Science Fiction, or Why I Could Never Love You"
Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes "Artichoke"
Jeremy Boyd "4s"
Kara Dorris "Car Wash Ars Poetica"
E. Kristin Anderson "Find Me Out"
SM Stubbs "Nonstop"
Paige Welsh "How do birds know to fly south?"

​ART
Katherine Medlin "Forsest", "Giving Thanks", & "Beach House"
Blessing Anne Culver "Falling Man, after Hendrick Goltzius's engravings of The Four Disgracers", "Prometheus Woman", & "Rat Attack"

COMICS
Sam Nakahira "The Astrologer"
Nick Earhart "Pillow Talk", "Self-Reflection", & "Flipping Houses" 

​CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Ana Maria Caballero "Transmission"
O. Neace "To Place a Distance"
JJ Peña "softness is a salve"

FICTION
Michael Czyzniejewski "Cerumen"
Kelsey Ipsen "For a While You Were Bigger than the Ocean"
Amy Eden Jollymore "The Wool Skirt Frida"
Matthew Kabik "3 Ways to See into the Future" & "Building Atlantis for an Older Brother"
Melanie Jane Parker "Chocolate Star"
Jessica June Rowe "Grandiflora"
Marcela Sulak "Outside (the law)"
Shreya Vikram "Seven Stages of the Apocalypse"
Kathleen Winter "Separated at Birth"
 
REVIEW
Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White (Augury Books 2021) reviewed by Clare Welsh

Masthead

Editor in Chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick
Editorial Assistant | Kenli Doss
Art & Design Editor / Layout & Design | meg willing
Creative Non-Fiction Editor | LaTanya McQueen
Assistant Creative Non-Fiction Editor | Jenny Robertson
Fiction Editors | Anthony Michael Morena & Zach Yontz
Poetry Editors | Tafisha A. Edwards & Billie R. Tadros
Book Reviews Editor | Tyler Gillespie
Teen Sequins Editor | Sophie Klahr
Editors Emeritus | Shereen Adel & Ian Carlos Crawford
Distribution Assistant | Hannah Ashford
Readers | Jessica Bergquist, Audrey Gidman, Dave Gregory, Saul Lemerond, Anastasia McClendon, Ashley Pabilonia, & Amanda Tolvaisa

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