Issue 8.1  /  January 2017

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COVER ART: Yokim Snow

MASTHEAD

Editor in Chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick
Production Editor | Shereen Adel
Assistant Production Editor/Layout & Design  |  meg willing
Poetry Editor | Christine Friedlander
Assistant Poetry Editor | Tafisha Edwards
Fiction Editor | Zach Yontz
Assistant Fiction Editor | Becca Pollock
CNF Editor | Ian Carlos Crawford
Assistant CNF Editor  |  Adam Sass
Teen Sequins Editors  |  Sophie Klahr & Robert Auld
Book Reviews Editor | Craig Chisholm
Readers |  Lisa Aquilino, Samantha Duncan, LaTanya McQueen, Anthony Michael Morena, Anna B. Sutton, Regina Vigil, & Michael J. Wilson

5TH ANNUAL CONTEST WINNERS
Xandria Phillips "FOR A BURIAL FREE OF SHARKS" (Poetry, selected by Lucas de Lima)
Kim Hagerich "Lost and Father" (Flash Fiction, selected by Annie Liontas)

POETRY 
Zoë Bodzas "no daughter"
Kristi Carter "The bed and the dog beyond the summer of abstinence"
Brian Clifton "Baba Yaga Burning Leaves"
Emily Corwin "tenderling"
Dan Encarnacion "Soughing Man"
Dana Fang "Feast"
p.e. garcia "animal considers animal"
Marlin M. Jenkins "Kill me twice,"
Paige Lewis "I'M GOING TO BE LATE"
Katie Prince "a moon like this"
Michael Martin Shea from The Immanent Field

FICTION
María Isabel Alvarez "Ceremony of Entities"
Andy Myers "The Great Baby Drought"
Elizabeth Gibson "Henry"
Saul Lemerond "Over Ben Aknoun"

CNF
Benji Alvey "Fuzzy"
Jacob Little "Foreigner" 
Bailey Pittenger "Jellyfish" and "Faking It"
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ART
Yokim Snow (cover), Sarah Shields, and Miguel Angel Soto

COMICS
Jason Hart and Anna McGlynn
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BOOK REVIEW
The Voyager Record  (Rose Metal Press, 2016) by Anthony Michael Morena, reviewed by Craig Chisholm

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