Sophie Klahr
(Non)fictions

Sophie Klahr - (Non)fictions

Fiction
Sophie Klahr is the author of the poetry collections Two Open Doors in a Field (University of Nebraska Press), Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books), and the collaborative prose work There Is Only One… Read more »
Elizabeth J. Wenger
A Goat

Elizabeth J. Wenger - A Goat

Contest - Flash CNF
Elizabeth J. Wenger is a queer, Jewish writer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. Currently an MFA student at Iowa State… Read more »
Mike Cooper
Call Me When You Get There

Mike Cooper - Call Me When You Get There

Fiction
Mike Cooper holds an MFA from Oregon State University Cascades in Bend, Oregon, where he lives with his family and Maggie the corgi. His short stories have been finalists in Glimmer Train, The Lascaux… Read more »
Elizabeth DeKok
Embers

Elizabeth DeKok - Embers

Fiction
Elizabeth DeKok received her MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. Born and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she currently lives in the North East of England. Her work is… Read more »
Franz Jørgen Neumann
Fidelity

Franz Jørgen Neumann - Fidelity

Fiction
Franz Jørgen Neumann’s stories have received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared in The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and Water~Stone Review. His past published work can be… Read more »
Jessica Hammack
Free Country

Jessica Hammack - Free Country

Poetry
Jessica Hammack is from Morgantown, West Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, Seneca Review, Redivider, The Pinch, and Still: The Journal, and her… Read more »
Kirsten Imani Kasai
Free to Good Home

Kirsten Imani Kasai - Free to Good Home

Fiction
Kirsten Imani Kasai is the author of The House of Erzulie (Shade Mountain Press, 2018), Ice Song (Del Rey, 2009), and Tattoo (Del Rey, 2011). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in… Read more »
Eileen Frankel Tomarchio
Last Meanings

Eileen Frankel Tomarchio - Last Meanings

Contest - Flash Fiction
Eileen Frankel Tomarchio works as a librarian in a small New Jersey town. Her writing appears in Passages North, Chestnut Review, The Forge, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Atticus Review, Flash Frog,… Read more »
Derek Dirckx
Maintenance

Derek Dirckx - Maintenance

Fiction
Derek Dirckx is a writer born and raised in Minnesota. Previously, his fiction has appeared in the Willesden Herald: New Short Stories 11. He currently resides in Louisiana, where he studies fiction… Read more »
Hayden Saunier
Monotype

Hayden Saunier - Monotype

Poetry
Hayden Saunier’s work has been widely published in journals and awarded a Pushcart Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, Pablo Neruda Prize, and featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writers Almanac.… Read more »
Derek Maiolo
Protocol for Disaster

Derek Maiolo - Protocol for Disaster

Creative Nonfiction
Derek Maiolo received his MFA from Chatham University, where he was the 2021-2023 Margaret L. Whitford Fellow. A journalist and conservationist, his work appears in High Country News, The Denver Post,… Read more »
Bob Ostertag
The Anesthesiologist

Bob Ostertag - The Anesthesiologist

Creative Nonfiction
Bob Ostertag has published more than twenty albums of music, seven books, two podcasts, and a feature film. His writings on contemporary politics have been published in many languages, beginning with… Read more »
Christopher Blackman
Three-Day Weekend

Christopher Blackman - Three-Day Weekend

Poetry
Christopher Blackman is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Cleaver Magazine, Southeast Review, and Sixth Finch, among other… Read more »
Sasha Wade
Where My Mother Goes

Sasha Wade - Where My Mother Goes

Contest - Prose Poem
Sasha Wade was born and raised in New York City. An attendee of The Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sasha also holds an MFA from Bennington’s Writing Seminars. Her poetry has been published in Rust +… Read more »
Terrance Owens
외국인

Terrance Owens - 외국인

Poetry
Terrance Owens has had poems appear in PANK, Quarterly West, The Adirondack Review, and Lake Effect, among others. He lives in Seoul, South Korea. Read more »

(Non)fictions

Sophie Klahr

I am back in the arms of Florida and seeing everywhere, for the first time since she’s died, my grandmother’s favorite chain store everywhere. I want to buy a little something, like her: leopard print handbag, leopard print hat. She was a typist, a collector of teapots. For lunch, she always laid out cold cuts and plastic-y cheese. Above the black vinyl couch, framed prints of red-crowned cranes, her bedroom always in some gauze-pink light. I try to list what I know she loved: key lime pie, coconut chocolates, Lifesavers. Whitefish salad. In the last months, on morphine, she recognized me. Her tongue searched for my name then found it, as if having forgotten that oranges existed she’d suddenly tasted one. I miss her more dead than I ever did alive. Is that love?
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