Tyler Patton
Undetectable

Tyler Patton - Undetectable

Fiction
Tyler Patton is a writer from Portland, Oregon. He has received support from the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation fellowship and is the 2024 recipient of the queer writer fellowship from the… Read more »
Leanne Shirtliffe
September

Leanne Shirtliffe - September

Poetry
Born and raised in rural Manitoba, Leanne Shirtliffe is a writer and educator now based in Calgary, Alberta. She is working on a poetry collection at the intersection of farming, feminism, and family.… Read more »
Nancy Takacs
The Parakeets

Nancy Takacs - The Parakeets

Poetry
Nancy Takacs’s latest book is Dearest Water (Mayapple Press 2022). She is a recipient of the Juniper Prize, a Pushcart Prize, The Sherwin Howard Award, two 15 Bytes book awards, Utah Original… Read more »
Ben Van Voorhis
Hold Fast to Guard Us

Ben Van Voorhis - Hold Fast to Guard Us

Fiction
Ben Van Voorhis is a writer, editor, and musician from Santa Clarita, California. He holds an MFA in fiction from Eastern Washington University and is the former managing editor of Willow Springs. A… Read more »
Sage Tyrtle
#JustTheTwoOfUs

Sage Tyrtle - #JustTheTwoOfUs

Fiction
Sage Tyrtle's work is available in New Delta Review, The Offing, Lunch Ticket, and Apex among others. Words featured on NPR, CBC, and PBS, and taught in schools. Read more at tyrtle.com. Read more »
Elizabeth Rosen
The Two Kinds of Stories We Told

Elizabeth Rosen - The Two Kinds of Stories We Told

Fiction
Elizabeth Rosen is a former Nickelodeon Television writer whose work has appeared in journals such as North American Review, Baltimore Review, Pithead Chapel, JMWW, Flash Frog, New Flash Fiction… Read more »
Maggie Riggs
Family Business

Maggie Riggs - Family Business

Fiction
Maggie Riggs is a writer and editor. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Plentitudes, The Chattahoochee Review, and Words Without Borders. She lives with her family in NYC and is at work… Read more »
Emily Ransdell
November Night

Emily Ransdell - November Night

Poetry
Emily Ransdell is the author of One Finch Singing, winner of the 2022 Lewis Award for Concrete Wolf Press and published in 2023. Her work has appeared in Rattle, New Letters, Tar River Poetry, Poetry… Read more »
Rook Rainsdowne
Doing Everything Right

Rook Rainsdowne - Doing Everything Right

Poetry
Rook Rainsdowne is a poet currently attending Eastern Washington University's MFA program. They have been previously published in Fifth Wheel Press, ANMLY, and #EnbyLife, among other wonderful… Read more »
Fran Qi
blueberries

Fran Qi - blueberries

Poetry
Fran Qi is a lost engineer and a renewed writer based out of San Francisco. She writes some fiction, but mostly poems, published in Sky Island Journal, Orange Blossom Review, Dawn Review, Cincinnati… Read more »
Kayla Rutledge Page
Crux

Kayla Rutledge Page - Crux

Contest - Flash Fiction
Kayla Rutledge Page has an MFA in fiction from North Carolina State University. She is the recipient of the 2019 James Hurst Prize for Fiction from NC State and the 2020 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in… Read more »
Joanne Merriam
Easy Bake

Joanne Merriam - Easy Bake

Fiction
Joanne Merriam (she/they) is an American-Canadian writer. Her writing has appeared in dozens of journals including Pank, Per Contra, and Riddle Fence. She was the force behind Upper Rubber Boot Books,… Read more »
Diane LeBlanc
Little Granite House

Diane LeBlanc - Little Granite House

Creative Nonfiction
Diane LeBlanc is a writer, teacher, and book artist with roots in Vermont, Wyoming, and Minnesota. She is the author of The Feast Delayed (Terrapin 2021) and four poetry chapbooks. Poems and essays… Read more »
Marika Guthrie
beta waves

Marika Guthrie - beta waves

Contest - Flash CNF
Marika Guthrie is an emerging writer residing in Pueblo, Colorado. She is a nontraditional undergraduate student currently attending CSU-Pueblo, pursuing a major in English with an emphasis in… Read more »
Dawn Dupler
Furniture Bones

Dawn Dupler - Furniture Bones

Contest - Prose Poem
Dawn Dupler is the 2024 Winner of the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize and the 2023 Winner of MacGuffin’s Poet Hunt. She was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2024 Vivian Shipley Poetry Contest, named… Read more »
Shelley Berg
Stuff the Vacuum Doesn’t Pick Up

Shelley Berg - Stuff the Vacuum Doesn’t Pick Up

Fiction
Shelley Berg grew up in Minnesota, was a managing editor in book publishing in New York, battled ice dams in Boston, and now lives in Los Angeles. Her stories and essays have appeared in Gargoyle,… Read more »