Cezarija Abartis
Stories for Second-Grade Teachers

Cezarija Abartis - Stories for Second-Grade Teachers

Fiction
Cezarija Abartis has published a collection, Nice Girls and Other Stories (New Rivers Press), and stories in Bennington Review, FRiGG, matchbook, Waccamaw, and New York Tyrant, among others. Recently… Read more »
Sandy Longhorn
Not Another Dead Woman as Plot Device

Sandy Longhorn - Not Another Dead Woman as Plot Device

Poetry
Sandy Longhorn has received the Porter Fund Literary Prize for Arkansas authors and the Collins Prize from the Birmingham Poetry Review. She is the author of three books of poetry: The Alchemy of My… Read more »
Tim Griffith
The Rustlers

Tim Griffith - The Rustlers

Fiction
Tim Griffith is originally from Southeastern Massachusetts but has spent the past decade and a half living in the West. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Gettysburg… Read more »
Christopher Santantasio
Duet

Christopher Santantasio - Duet

Fiction
Christopher Santantasio is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared most recently in One Story, Smokelong Quarterly, and Lake Effect. He was raised in the Hudson Valley and currently… Read more »
Brock Jones
Cardiology

Brock Jones - Cardiology

Poetry
Brock Jones is an assistant professor of English at Utah Valley University and the author of Cenotaph (University of Arkansas Press, 2016), a finalist in the 2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize. His… Read more »
Prisha Mehta
Twilight Boy

Prisha Mehta - Twilight Boy

Fiction
Prisha Mehta is a passionate writer and a high school student from Millburn, New Jersey. Her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she has pieces published or… Read more »
Morrow Dowdle
The Ride

Morrow Dowdle - The Ride

Contest - 2nd Place
Morrow Dowdle is a poet living in Hillsborough, NC. She released her first chapbook, Nature v. Nurture (Artagem Graphic Library) in 2018. She has published poetry in numerous journals and anthologies,… Read more »
Jennifer Lang
Uprooted

Jennifer Lang - Uprooted

Contest - 1st Place
An American-French-Israeli hybrid, Jennifer Lang writes mostly about her divided self, Israel, and home. Her stories have appeared in 1966, Ascent, The New Haven Review, The Tishman Review, The… Read more »
Jason Myers
Ars Poetica in Which the Poet is Not a Cockroach

Jason Myers - Ars Poetica in Which the Poet is Not a Cockroach

Poetry
Jason Myers is the Editor-in-Chief of The EcoTheo Review. His writing has appeared in American Poet (introduced by Campbell McGrath), The Believer, Ecotone, Image, The Paris Review, West Branch, and… Read more »
Maggie Andersen
Midnight Blue

Maggie Andersen - Midnight Blue

Creative Nonfiction
Maggie Andersen has published in the Coal Hill Review, CutBank, Grain, Southern California Review, Knee-Jerk, and South Loop Review, among others. In addition to teaching at Dominican University, she… Read more »
Amorak Huey
In the Final Months of My Parents’ Marriage

Amorak Huey - In the Final Months of My Parents’ Marriage

Poetry
Amorak Huey is the author of three books of poetry: Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank, 2018, winner of the Vern Rutsala Prize), and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015), as… Read more »
Deac Etherington
Asylum

Deac Etherington - Asylum

Fiction
Deac Etherington was a finalist for the 2017 Arcturus Award for Fiction, Chicago Review of Books; finalist in the 2018 and 2019 fiction contest at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference; winner of… Read more »
Melissa Crowe
The Parting

Melissa Crowe - The Parting

Poetry
Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and… Read more »
Brandi Jo Nyberg
Adrift

Brandi Jo Nyberg - Adrift

Contest - 3rd Place
Brandi Jo Nyberg spends her time in the woods, on rivers, growing food, and writing about those things. In May of 2019, she received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Alaska,… Read more »
Elizabeth Word Gutting
Wonder

Elizabeth Word Gutting - Wonder

Fiction
Elizabeth Word Gutting's writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Humanities Magazine, Juked, Paper Darts, and The Millions, among others. She lives in Boise, Idaho,… Read more »