Mimi Veshi
The Nanny

Mimi Veshi - The Nanny

Creative Nonfiction
Mimi Veshi is a new writer living in the Washington, DC, area. She writes essays, poetry, and short stories. The themes examined in her work include identity, culture, race, and growing up as an… Read more »
Tom Roth
Thanks for the Ride

Tom Roth - Thanks for the Ride

Fiction
Tom Roth teaches creative writing at a middle school in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most recent publications are in On the Run and Outlook Springs. He earned an MFA from Chatham University. He recently… Read more »
Remy Reed Pincumbe
Flags

Remy Reed Pincumbe - Flags

Fiction
Remy Reed Pincumbe is a Michigan writer and bookseller whose work can be found in Passages North and Strange Horizons. They completed an MFA at the University of Arkansas, where they worked as the… Read more »
Charlie Peck
Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack

Charlie Peck - Bird’s Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack

Poetry
Charlie Peck is from Omaha, Nebraska and received his MFA from Purdue University. His poetry has appeared previously in Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, and Best New Poets 2019,… Read more »
Robert Osborne
A Year of Riots

Robert Osborne - A Year of Riots

Fiction
Robert Osborne is a consultant to not-for-profit organizations. His short story ‘Children’ was a fiction finalist in Witness Magazine’s 2022 Literary Awards and his short story ‘A Year of… Read more »
Jarrett Moseley
A Possible Exit

Jarrett Moseley - A Possible Exit

Contest - Prose Poem
Jarrett Moseley is a bisexual poet living in Miami, where he was a James A. Michener fellow in the University of Miami's MFA program. He is the recipient of the 2022 Alfred Boas Prize from the Academy… Read more »
Robin Littell
Sidewalks

Robin Littell - Sidewalks

Contest - Flash Fiction
Robin Littell holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University. She is the author of Flight, the 2018 Vella Chapbook Winner at Paper Nautilus Press. Her flash fiction has appeared in the Hawaii… Read more »
Virginia Kane
What I Didn’t Inherit

Virginia Kane - What I Didn’t Inherit

Poetry
Virginia Kane is a poet from Alexandria, Virginia, and the author of the poetry chapbook If Organic Deodorant Was Made for Dancing (Sunset Press 2019). Her work has appeared in them., The Adroit… Read more »
Rochelle L. Johnson
Where Ashes Bloom

Rochelle L. Johnson - Where Ashes Bloom

Contest - Flash Creative Nonfiction
Rochelle L. Johnson writes about living with disability in a broken world. A professor of environmental studies, her scholarly essays appear in various journals and anthologies, and her creative… Read more »
Bronte Heron
Housekeeping

Bronte Heron - Housekeeping

Poetry
Bronte Heron is a poet and educator from Aotearoa/New Zealand, currently living in New York City. They are an MFA Candidate in the Creative Writing Program at The New School and an alum of The… Read more »
Michael J. Grabell
Why Are Things So Heavy in the Future?

Michael J. Grabell - Why Are Things So Heavy in the Future?

Poetry
Michael J. Grabell grew up in a single-parent household, the son of a high school Spanish teacher and the grandson of an immigrant window washer from Ukraine. His poems have appeared or are… Read more »
Sara Elkamel
Renovation

Sara Elkamel - Renovation

Poetry
Sara Elkamel is a poet, journalist, and translator based in Cairo. She holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her poems have appeared in… Read more »
Jim Genia
Thiohnaka (Home)

Jim Genia - Thiohnaka (Home)

Fiction
Jim Genia—a proud Dakota Sioux—mostly writes nonfiction about cage fighting but occasionally takes a break from the hurt and pain to write fiction about hurt and pain. He has an MFA in creative… Read more »
Roxanne Lynn Doty
The Hitchhiker

Roxanne Lynn Doty - The Hitchhiker

Fiction
Roxanne Lynn Doty lives in Tempe, Arizona. Her debut novel, Out Stealing Water, was published by Regal House Publishing, August 30, 2022. She has published stories and poems in Third Wednesday,… Read more »
Brendan Constantine
Oxygen

Brendan Constantine - Oxygen

Poetry
Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, and Poem A Day. He currently teaches at The Windward… Read more »
Kayo Chang Black
They Look Like Me

Kayo Chang Black - They Look Like Me

Creative Nonfiction
Kayo Chang Black is a Taiwanese Canadian writer exploring hybrid identities, global citizenship, and the intersection of cultures. Her librarian career brought her to the UAE, Bahrain, and Hong Kong.… Read more »