Matt Izzi
All Ruinous Disorders

Matt Izzi - All Ruinous Disorders

Fiction
Matt Izzi was born in Rhode Island and lives in East Boston. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review, Carolina Quarterly, Post Road, Shenandoah, Third Coast, and other… Read more »
Jeffrey Morgan
Autumn Mannerism

Jeffrey Morgan - Autumn Mannerism

Poetry
Jeffrey Morgan is the author of Crying Shame. A 2017 National Poetry Series Finalist, his poems appear in Copper Nickel, The Kenyon Review Online, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, and West Branch, among… Read more »
Barry Peters
Critical Thinking

Barry Peters - Critical Thinking

Fiction
Barry Peters lives and teaches in Durham, NC. Recent/forthcoming work: Broad River Review, Connecticut River Review, The Flexible Persona, The Healing Muse, Jelly Bucket, Kakalak, Plainsongs, Rattle,… Read more »
Claire Robbins
Dressing the Man

or Queer Gender Fatigue

Claire Robbins - Dressing the Man

or Queer Gender Fatigue

Contest - 3rd Place
Claire Robbins serves as the guest creative non-fiction editor for Third Coast Magazine, holds an MFA in fiction from Western Michigan University, teaches college writing, and has published work in… Read more »
Myronn Hardy
No Longer

Myronn Hardy - No Longer

Poetry
Myronn Hardy is the author of five books of poems: Approaching the Center, The Headless Saints, Catastrophic Bliss, Kingdom, and most recently, Radioactive Starlings. His poems have appeared in… Read more »
Emily Anderson Ula
Role Play

Emily Anderson Ula - Role Play

Contest - 2nd Place
Emily Anderson Ula earned her MFA from The University of the South, Sewanee. She was the recipient of the 2016 School of Letters Rivendell Fellowship, and her debut short story was published in The… Read more »
Kathryn Merwin
Sucker Punch

Kathryn Merwin - Sucker Punch

Poetry
Kathryn Merwin’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Cutbank, Quiddity, Sugar House Review, Prairie Schooner, and Blackbird. She has read or reviewed for publications such as… Read more »
Mary Ann McSweeny
The Biker

Mary Ann McSweeny - The Biker

Creative Nonfiction
Mary Ann McSweeny, an educator and instructional designer, is a native of the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in So It Goes, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, The… Read more »
Celisa Steele
The Buttonhole Stitching Around the Heart Can’t Stop the Unraveling

Celisa Steele - The Buttonhole Stitching Around the Heart Can’t Stop the Unraveling

Contest - 1st Place
Celisa Steele’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Cave Wall, Poetry South, San Pedro River Review, Raleigh Review, Comstock Review, The South Carolina Review, Broad River… Read more »
Donald McCarthy
The Letter

Donald McCarthy - The Letter

Fiction
Donald McCarthy is a writer from New York. A complete list of his publications can be found at http://www.donaldmccarthy.com/ Read more »
Rebecca Starks
The More Things Change

Rebecca Starks - The More Things Change

Poetry
Rebecca Starks has poems and short fiction appearing in Crab Orchard Review, Rattle, Stonecoast Review, Ocean State Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Slice, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of… Read more »
Teresa Dzieglewicz
To the abstinence-only educator at my high school:

Teresa Dzieglewicz - To the abstinence-only educator at my high school:

Poetry
Teresa Dzieglewicz is an educator and Pushcart Prize-winning poet. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University, where she received the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has received… Read more »
Tasia M. Hane-Devore
What We Play Here

Tasia M. Hane-Devore - What We Play Here

Poetry
Tasia M. Hane-Devore has been a writer, sculptor, poet, ceramicist, academic, teacher, picture framer, editor, and overall fixer of things. You can find her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Tar… Read more »
Sarah Shotland
What We Wear to Prison

Sarah Shotland - What We Wear to Prison

Creative Nonfiction
Sarah Shotland is the author of the novel Junkette, and a playwright whose work has been produced nationally and internationally. She is co-founder of Words Without Walls, which brings creative… Read more »
Rage Hezekiah
You Watch Me Wishing I Were Twice as Good

Rage Hezekiah - You Watch Me Wishing I Were Twice as Good

Poetry
Rage Hezekiah is a MacDowell and Cave Canem Fellow who earned her MFA from Emerson College. She is the recipient of the Saint Botolph Emerging Artist Award in Literature and was nominated for Best New… Read more »

Sucker Punch

Kathryn Merwin

There is clear light in the violet hour, when everything grows purple: crocuses split by starlight, your amethyst necklace, bright as a beautiful slit throat. Cobra-faced lilacs. The memory of a wound on your arm, blood blooming into strange flowers. Cobwebs of capillaries, your sweetest Malbec. Even the birds are purple here, balancing on the invisible trapeze of west wind. This is a skeletal love. The dark fig between your legs, split at the soft core. Look at me across the massacre. Your skin purples with memory.
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