Annie Trinh
The Burning of Leaves

Annie Trinh - The Burning of Leaves

Fiction
Annie Trinh is a writer from Nevada. She has earned her MFA from the University of Kansas and is currently earning her PhD at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Supported by the Key West Literary… Read more »
Maurine Ogonnaya Ogbaa
A Family Affair

Maurine Ogonnaya Ogbaa - A Family Affair

Fiction
Maurine Ogonnaya Ogbaa is a Nigerian American writer raised in Houston, Texas. Her prose has appeared in Callaloo, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Third Coast, The Elephant (Kenya)and elsewhere. Her creative… Read more »
Caroline Barnes
A Story

Caroline Barnes - A Story

Poetry
Caroline Barnes is a writer and editor in Silver Spring, Maryland. She is especially interested in reading and writing poems that explore the ways humans and animals intersect. Caroline has published… Read more »
Genevieve Abravanel
All the People Strange and Kind

Genevieve Abravanel - All the People Strange and Kind

Fiction
Genevieve Abravanel’s short fiction is available or forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Story, American Short Fiction, Chicago Quarterly Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. She has published a scholarly… Read more »
Noreen Ocampo
Another Poem About Cut Fruit

Noreen Ocampo - Another Poem About Cut Fruit

Poetry
Noreen Ocampo is a Filipino American writer and poet from metro Atlanta. She is the author of the chapbooks Not Flowers (Variant Literature, 2022) and There Are No Filipinos in Mississippi (Porkbelly… Read more »
Bari Lynn Hein
Ásylo

Bari Lynn Hein - Ásylo

Fiction
Bari Lynn Hein is a Baltimore native whose stories are published or forthcoming in dozens of journals across eleven countries, among them The Saturday Evening Post, CALYX, Mslexia, Prime Number,… Read more »
Nina Colette Peláez
Aureole

Nina Colette Peláez - Aureole

Poetry
Nina Colette Peláez is a poet, artist, educator, and cultural producer based in Maui, Hawaii. An adoptee born in Las Vegas and raised in Brooklyn, she holds an MFA from Bennington College and is… Read more »
Nick Manning
Fergie Matthews’ Last Theorem

Nick Manning - Fergie Matthews’ Last Theorem

Fiction
Nick Manning is a clock-mending, stained glass window-constructing, family and dog-loving, lucky British man, living with his husband, dog and, sometimes, stepson in Washington, D.C., and New York. He… Read more »
Genevieve Payne
In Amsterdam

Genevieve Payne - In Amsterdam

Poetry
Genevieve Payne received her MFA from Syracuse University where she was awarded the Leonard Brown Prize in poetry. Her recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The End, Bennington Review,… Read more »
Ernie Wang
Night Lights

Ernie Wang - Night Lights

Fiction
Ernie Wang is a second-generation Chinese-Japanese-American. He grew up on U.S. military bases in Japan. His short fiction appears in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, McSweeney’s,… Read more »
Taylor Ebersole
Once, Our Overpass

Taylor Ebersole - Once, Our Overpass

Contest - Flash Fiction
Taylor Ebersole lives in Norfolk, Virginia. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University, where she works as a reader for Barely South Review. Her fiction has appeared in… Read more »
Sarah Sugiyama Issever
Passions

Sarah Sugiyama Issever - Passions

Fiction
Sarah Sugiyama Issever is a Jewish and Japanese writer from New York City. She holds a BA in English from UCLA and now studies creative writing at Oxford University. She is the recipient of a… Read more »
Anne Rudig
The Nugget

Anne Rudig - The Nugget

Creative Nonfiction
Anne Rudig was born in San Francisco, received her MFA from Columbia University, and has written for the New York Times, Memoir Monday, The Guardian, Bloom, and Rip Rap Literary Journal. A recent… Read more »
Amanda Auchter
Thursday Dinner

Amanda Auchter - Thursday Dinner

Contest - Prose Poem
Amanda Auchter is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry and the Perugia Press Book Award, and The Glass Crib, winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book… Read more »
Kaecey McCormick
Two Weeks after My Daughter Arrives Home from a Residential Treatment Center for Girls

Kaecey McCormick - Two Weeks after My Daughter Arrives Home from a Residential Treatment Center for Girls

Poetry
Originally from New England and after two decades in Maryland, Kaecey McCormick now writes poetry and fiction in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the winner of the 2023 Connecticut Poetry Prize,… Read more »
Al Dixon
Wearing Skirts Around My Parents

Al Dixon - Wearing Skirts Around My Parents

Contest - Flash CNF
Al Dixon lives in Athens, Georgia, where he teaches English at the University of Georgia. He’s always been a fiction writer, but at the beginning of the pandemic he started writing essays with two… Read more »
Melissa Darcey Hall
Yeah, Sure

Melissa Darcey Hall - Yeah, Sure

Fiction
Melissa Darcey Hall is a writer and high school English teacher in Southern California. Her work has appeared in Gulf Coast Journal, no tokens, phoebe, Nimrod, Pembroke, and elsewhere. Read more »

In Amsterdam

Genevieve Payne

I was lonely and cold. Singular, I was erasable. It snowed in Amsterdam and in the hostel each night a strange man snored. The noise was a hand or a hand that held me to myself like a mirror holds us up to ourselves. At the park and in the ice bar and at the small carnival with shrill lights and rolled pastries, I wore a thick coat borrowed from Italy and was displaced and amassed at once. I took myself to the floating flower shops and let strange syllables oust the words I knew. So tethered to the sorrow in myself I didn’t see the museum of the man who cut off his own ear to gift to his lover in a case for renewal. In Amsterdam, the canals opened wide and the Dutch drawbridges were clustered with locks meant to signify love though they came to seem more like an argument or shed body parts, less alive than alone. The ear was a flower, the ear was recourse for a lover. But I had nothing—I sent nothing home.
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