Editors Amanda Gibson, Andrea Gipson, Shayla Hargreaves, Hannah Moua, Aydan Murdoch

Managing Editor Josh Parish

The Cat
by JOE O’SHANSKY | Sarah Stecher Prize, student poetry contest

The System
by KATIE KEMPLE

Stand-Up
by JAMIE CUNNINGHAM | 1st Place, student prose contest

Manifest Destiny in the KCA (Kiowa Comanche Apache) Rez
by JOSHUA CODYNAH | 2nd Place, student prose contest

Back to the Start
by DINAMARIE ISOLA

All My Loves Have Grown Old
by ELLEN JUNE WRIGHT

Paper Tygers
by JAMIE CUNNINGHAM | 2nd Place, student poetry contest

The Devil’s Promenade
by DACIA CUNNINGHAM

Poem Written on a Spring Day (After Ou Yang Hsiu)
by GEORGE FREEK

The Experiment
by ANDY MORRIGAN | 3rd Place tie, student poetry contest

Things I’ll Send
by HATTIE CRISELL

The Living Tree
by CARSON ROSE | 3rd Place, student prose contest 

For Those Who Have Known & Those Who Will Know Me
by BAILEY HUERTA | 3rd Place tie, student poetry contest

The Cat Considers Her Poetic Companion
by T. ALLEN CULPEPPER

Bees
by DUANE ENGELHARDT

The Time I Lost Myself
by MELYSSA LIRA | Honorable Mention, student prose contest

Famous in My Mind
by MARGARET WAGNER

An Acrostic for Kurt Vonnegut
by ZHENYA YEVTUSHENKO | Honorable Mention, student poetry contest

Ode to Houseguests
by SARAH STECHER

Tormented
by AARON OXFORD | Honorable Mention, student prose contest

Hope Matters, 1970–2020
by KATHLEEN MCCORMICK

Dad Died with a Full Suitcase
by SUZANNE O’CONNELL