Adrie Rose
Diagnosis Summer

Adrie Rose - Diagnosis Summer

Poetry
Adrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press. Her chapbook Rupture is forthcoming with Gold Line Press in 2023, and she has a micro chap forthcoming in… Read more »
Meg Robson Mahoney
Exit Stage Left

Meg Robson Mahoney - Exit Stage Left

Creative Nonfiction
Meg Robson Mahoney retired from teaching dance in a public school. “Mother May I?” an excerpt of a memoir-in-progress, was awarded Best Nonfiction by Write on the Sound and nominated for Best of… Read more »
Jared Beloff
Mezuzahs

Jared Beloff - Mezuzahs

Poetry
Jared Beloff is the author of Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023). He is the editor of the Marvel-inspired poetry anthology, Marvelous Verses (Daily Drunk, 2021) and has been a peer… Read more »
Allisa Cherry
My Mother’s Cold Hands

Allisa Cherry - My Mother’s Cold Hands

Poetry
Allisa Cherry’s poetry has recently appeared in The Maine Review, Nine Mile Magazine, The Ilanot Review, Rust + Moth, The Columbia Review, High Desert Journal, and The Account, and has received… Read more »
Abigail Oswald
Pictures of a Woman You Never Knew

Abigail Oswald - Pictures of a Woman You Never Knew

Fiction
Abigail Oswald is a writer whose work predominantly examines themes of celebrity, crime, and girlhood. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best Microfiction, Wigleaf, DIAGRAM, Vol. 1… Read more »
Adam Forrester
Ray’s Fine Foods

Adam Forrester - Ray’s Fine Foods

Fiction
Adam Forrester (he/him) is a writer, artist, and filmmaker living in Atlanta, Georgia. His films have been distributed via PBS. His fiction and nonfiction writing has appeared in Drain Magazine, The… Read more »
Sarah Elkins
Refusal

Sarah Elkins - Refusal

Poetry
Sarah Elkins lives in southern West Virginia. Her work is forthcoming from or has recently appeared in The Cimarron Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Quarterly West, Hiram Poetry Review, SWWIM, Porter… Read more »
Emmy Ritchey
Sail Away

Emmy Ritchey - Sail Away

Fiction
Emmy Ritchey is a writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in or been anthologized by Identity Theory, The Daily Drunk, Dead Skunk, and HASH. She is a fiction editor for Identity… Read more »
Cressida Blake Roe
Scorpion Season

Cressida Blake Roe - Scorpion Season

Fiction
Cressida Blake Roe is a biracial writer whose prose appears in The Baltimore Review, Chestnut Review, X-R-A-Y, Tupelo Quarterly, Tiny Molecules, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Best… Read more »
Kimberly Glanzman
Sitting Next to My Brother’s Ghost on the Dock at Our Grandparents’ House

Kimberly Glanzman - Sitting Next to My Brother’s Ghost on the Dock at Our Grandparents’ House

Poetry
Kimberly Glanzman (she/her) earned her MFA from the University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared in Electric Lit, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse, Harpur Palate, Whale Road, and Barely South, among… Read more »
Michael Minassian
The Cathedral of Time

Michael Minassian - The Cathedral of Time

Poetry
Michael Minassian is a contributing editor for Verse-Virtual, an online poetry journal. His poetry collections Time is Not a River, Morning Calm, and A Matter of Timing as well as a new chapbook, Jack… Read more »
Jane Zwart
There are so many levels called darkness

Jane Zwart - There are so many levels called darkness

Poetry
Jane Zwart teaches at Calvin University, where she also co-directs the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, HAD, and… Read more »
Huina Zheng
White Rabbit

Huina Zheng - White Rabbit

Creative Nonfiction
Huina Zheng holds an M.A. in English Studies degree and has worked as a college essay coach. Her stories were published in Variant Literature, Evocations Review, The Meadow, Ignatian Literary… Read more »
Pete Mackey
Wood

Pete Mackey - Wood

Poetry
Pete Mackey’s poetry has been published in numerous venues, most recently in West Trade Review, Moving Force Journal, Farmer-ish, Bangalore Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Third Wednesday,… Read more »
Donna Obeid
You Should Be Famous for All You’ve Been Through

Donna Obeid - You Should Be Famous for All You’ve Been Through

Fiction
Donna Obeid lives in the Bay Area. She received an MA and MFA from American University and a BA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Her work has appeared in Carve,… Read more »

Sitting Next to My Brother’s Ghost on the Dock at Our Grandparents’ House

Kimberly Glanzman

sunrise unfastens the shadows weighing on the water. light leaks between my toes. the fish flash, silver-backed, unafraid of your fishing pole, rusted and forgotten in an old plastic bucket. in the cool of the lake, my feet float; the fish come close enough to touch. you must be kinder to them now.
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