Kelly Weber
ARS POETICA

Kelly Weber - ARS POETICA

Contest - Prose Poem
Kelly Weber (she/they) is the author of We Are Changed to Deer at the Broken Place (Tupelo Press, forthcoming December 2022) and You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis, winner of the 2022 Omnidawn… Read more »
Reuben Gelley Newman
Arthur, 1992

Reuben Gelley Newman - Arthur, 1992

Poetry
Reuben Gelley Newman (he/him) is a writer, musician, and library worker based in Brooklyn, NY. His poems are available or forthcoming in diode, The Fairy Tale Review, The Journal, The South Dakota… Read more »
Leah Mell
Ice Fishing on Europa

Leah Mell - Ice Fishing on Europa

Poetry
Leah Mell is a genderqueer lesbian poet and translator originally from the American South, but currently living in the Southwest. At present, she is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the… Read more »
Devin S. Turk
Junk Drawer

Devin S. Turk - Junk Drawer

Poetry
Devin S. Turk writes from personal experience about Autism, transness, and madness in the Mid-Atlantic United States, often with a cat in their lap. They have work published in Short Édition’s… Read more »
Grace
New Year

Grace - New Year

Poetry
Grace is a settler living in Ontario on the traditional and Treaty territory of the Anishinabek people, now known as the Chippewa Tri-Council, comprised of the Beausoleil, Rama, and Georgina Island… Read more »
C. Mikal Oness
Not Grace Exactly

C. Mikal Oness - Not Grace Exactly

Poetry
C. Mikal Oness is the author of Oracle Bones, winner of the Lewis & Clark Poetry Prize, and Water Becomes Bone (New Issues Press). His poems have appeared in numerous journals throughout the U.S.… Read more »
Charlene Logan
Proper Shoes

Charlene Logan - Proper Shoes

Creative Nonfiction
Charlene Logan's work has appeared in Blackbird, Pembroke Magazine, Witness Magazine, WomensArts Quarterly, and other magazines and journals. She received a fellowship from McDowell and earned an MFA… Read more »
Aiden Heung
Scranton

Aiden Heung - Scranton

Poetry
Aiden Heung (he/they) is a Chinese poet born in a Tibetan Autonomous Town, currently living in Shanghai. He is a Tongji University graduate. His poems written in English have appeared in The… Read more »
James Gyure
The House Across the Street

James Gyure - The House Across the Street

Fiction
James Gyure lives in Pennsylvania. He received an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD from Penn State University. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in jmww, Tahoma Literary Review,… Read more »
Katie M. Zeigler
The Meetinghouse

Katie M. Zeigler - The Meetinghouse

Contest - Flash Fiction
Katie M Zeigler is a writer and professor living in Walnut Creek, CA. Zeigler holds a BA and MA in English from Stanford University and an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Mary's College. She has had… Read more »
Kirk Vanderbeek
The Scrape

Kirk Vanderbeek - The Scrape

Fiction
Kirk Vanderbeek is a writer of fiction, screenplays, and comics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Falling Star Magazine, Havok, Quagmire Magazine and more. He currently lives in Michigan… Read more »
Frank Reilly
The Stirling Stone

Frank Reilly - The Stirling Stone

Fiction
Frank Reilly is a screenwriter and playwright. He won the Best Screenplay Award at the Austin Film Festival, and his screen adaptation of Caroline Paul’s novel East Wind, Rain has been acquired by… Read more »
Sara Eddy
There Should Be a God

Sara Eddy - There Should Be a God

Poetry
Sara Eddy is author of two chapbooks: Tell the Bees (A3 Press) and Full Mouth (Finishing Line). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Threepenny Review, Pink Panther, and Raleigh Review.… Read more »
Claire Walla
Watching Citizen Kane in Alaska

Claire Walla - Watching Citizen Kane in Alaska

Contest - Flash Creative Nonfiction
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Claire Walla now writes fiction and nonfiction from her home in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has written about film for vanityfair.com and American… Read more »
Deborah Allbritain
What the mind keeps, it keeps

Deborah Allbritain - What the mind keeps, it keeps

Poetry
Deborah Allbritain’s work appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ecotone, Fugue, Salamander, Thrush, and Plume. Her poems have been finalists in the Crab Creek Review… Read more »

Arthur, 1992

Reuben Gelley Newman

for Arthur Russell Enclosed in a castle of cassettes, you fortify your body with song. Being sad is not a crime, you sing to Tom, who strokes your head spotted with sarcoma, and your shrunken face brightens at his touch, and the moonlight slants onto you, two men together in a field of five-line staves, hastily sketched lyrics, the patter of the drum machine like the beat of sparrows’ wings. You swallow water in your beak of a mouth and develop cancer of the throat; your apartment an archive of every sound you ever wrote.
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