Dean Marshall Tuck
Renegades

Dean Marshall Tuck - Renegades

Poetry
Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His novel Twinless Twin (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2025) was chosen by Jason Mott as the winner of AWP’s… Read more »
Kanako Shimizu
Symmetry

Kanako Shimizu - Symmetry

Poetry
Kanako Shimizu is a Japanese poet, artist, and full-time editor based in New York City. Their work is forthcoming in Notre Dame Review. Find more: kanakoshimizu.com Read more »
Karen Saunders
At the Memory Home

Karen Saunders - At the Memory Home

Poetry
Karen Saunders is enamored of both words and the human experience. She hopes to put this fandom to good use in the documentation of lived moments that speak to something larger than themselves. Her… Read more »
Triin Paja
Sister in the Orchard

Triin Paja - Sister in the Orchard

Poetry
Triin Paja is an Estonian poet. She is the author of four collections of poetry in Estonian. Her awards include the Betti Alver Literary Award, the Juhan Liiv Prize for Poetry, and the Looming Poetry… Read more »
Isabelle Ness
A Piece of Advice

Isabelle Ness - A Piece of Advice

Fiction
Isabelle Ness is a writer living in western Massachusetts. Her flash fiction was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and appears in Atticus Review and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Find more… Read more »
Christina Misite
Just This Morning

Christina Misite - Just This Morning

Poetry
Christina Misite grew up in New England but has spent almost half her life in San Antonio, where she currently resides. She teaches literature and creative writing for Southern New Hampshire… Read more »
Roey Leonardi
Deer Hunt

Roey Leonardi - Deer Hunt

Poetry
Roey Leonardi is a poet and writer from South Carolina. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Bat City Review, Calyx, Epiphany, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She is the editor in chief of Indiana Review. Read more »
Nahal Suzanne Jamir
Best Practices

Nahal Suzanne Jamir - Best Practices

Fiction
Nahal Suzanne Jamir’s writing has been recently published in journals like StoryQuarterly, and she is the author of the story collection In the Middle of Many Mountains (Press 53). Jamir currently… Read more »
Chris Guppy
Kidnap Is Sorta Like Babysit

Chris Guppy - Kidnap Is Sorta Like Babysit

Contest - Flash CNF
Chris Guppy is a poet and writer living in northern Colorado, where she shares a house with an autistic teenager, a rock climber, and two black cats. She earned her MFA from the University of North… Read more »
Rozalija Grace
After Terebenev’s “Map of Russia and Its Peoples” (1866)

Rozalija Grace - After Terebenev’s “Map of Russia and Its Peoples” (1866)

Poetry
Rozalija Grace is a Russian diasporic writer and heritage activist from southern Alaska. Her poems, short stories, and essays exploring exile, intimacy, language, and faith have been nominated for… Read more »
Eileen Dolbeare
A Good House Cleaner

Eileen Dolbeare - A Good House Cleaner

Creative Nonfiction
Eileen Dolbeare is a writer, photographer, and documentary producer living in Niwot, Colorado. Her photography has appeared in Welter Journal, New Plains Review, Sagebrush Review, and Hofstra… Read more »
Matthew Di Ciano
What Comes Through the Ceiling

Matthew Di Ciano - What Comes Through the Ceiling

Fiction
Matthew Di Ciano is a Canadian writer based in Calgary, Alberta. His debut short story collection, Every Gesture Counts Twice, is forthcoming from Apprentice House Press. “What Comes Through the… Read more »
Lyn Li Che
Petaling Jaya

Lyn Li Che - Petaling Jaya

Contest - Prose Poem
Lyn Li Che is from Malaysia. Her poems have been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, the Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review’s miCRo, Michigan Quarterly Review,… Read more »
Morrigan Byalin
Types

Morrigan Byalin - Types

Contest - Flash Fiction
Morrigan Byalin is a writer and educator from Staten Island, New York. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Boston University and is pursuing her PhD in English Literature at the… Read more »
Deya Bhattacharya
A Necessary Matter

Deya Bhattacharya - A Necessary Matter

Fiction
Deya Bhattacharya is a 2025-26 Fiction candidate and Leslie Epstein Fellow at the Boston University MFA program. Her work has been published in Subtropics, Bayou, Beloit Fiction Journal, Blackbird,… Read more »
Katie Bannon
Chase the Rabbit

Katie Bannon - Chase the Rabbit

Creative Nonfiction
Katie Bannon is a writer, artist, and book coach whose creative nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, and Narratively, among others. Her memoir manuscript was a finalist for… Read more »