In a Pitch-Black Room
by NOR AMIGONE | 1st Place, student prose contest Director: Ellis Graves Starring: Merrikat Black,…
Pill Head Eulogy
by LAUREN RANDOLPH There are Xs where your eyes should be—skin turned a gray kind of blue. I can’t…
My Mother is a Gladiolus, My Father is a Magnolia
by MORGAN JENSEN | Sarah Stecher Prize, student poetry contest My mother is a gladiolus. Much like…
Sycamore Canyon
By CHRISTOPHER MENEZES and KRISS KRUCKENBERG We wandered into the fields in front of our childhood…
Girl in a Raincoat
by PIA QUINTANO Every time he saw the girl at Starbucks he thought he should talk to her, but he…
Purple Hyacinths
by HANNAH CONATZER | 2nd Place, student prose contest Streets lined with vendors selling their…
American sonnet on finding out
by DAISY BASSEN The leopard is enjoying eating your face. That’s no consolation, I imagine. I…
Sacrifice
by NELLE YVON Alice is covered in bruises, gaining no weight, and daily, syncope pulls her to…
Up in the Red Mountains
by ALPIE LEIN | 2nd Place, student poetry contest for Maren O. Mitchell She plants handpicked……
Rattan Vanity
by FRANK CARELLINI They walked to the edge of the shore. “It’s just there,” he pointed. “We just…