COVER ART BY CAMILA GARCIA

RAY VENTRE MEMORIAL NONFICTION PRIZE

Yao Xiao: The Old House

Liz Breen: Prayer Plant 

ELINOR BENEDICT POETRY PRIZE

Giovannai Rosa: The first governor of Puerto Rico was American. He took things. His people stay alive this way. He moved money to American-owned sugar plantations. Then he went home and started the largest sugar syndicate in the world. Once, it was called The American Sugar Refining Company. Today, it’s called Domino Sugar. In your kitchen, there was a big yellow bin of Domino Sugar

Kate Arden: Since I have the time

Joshua Garcia: Self-Portrait with Pelvic Wand

SHORT-SHORTS

Noémi Scheiring-Oláh: Cheap Sea

Seema Srivastava: Rocks

emet ezell: Directions To The Jobar Synagogue

Julie Lunde: Gene: Life And Times

Uyen Phuong Dang: By Having a Portrait

James McCachren: Tick / The Newt / My Stepfather’s Shorts

Scott Frey: Hypothermia Part 2

Kenton K. Yee: I Parrot Therefore I Am / Two Rosé Lunch Hour

Moisés Delgado: Is The Neighbor Listening to That Screeching Devil Music Again?

Meg Pokrass: Bill

Kate Tooley: Elizabeth Bishop Screams on the Beach / At the Gallery

Emily Ula: Hungry

Michelle Zhu: New England / Face

Ross Showalter: Static Fantasy

Tim Horvath: The Inertiad

FICTION

Jeffrey Xiong: Etymology of 王奔

Noah Pohl: So Much for the Afterlife

Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom: Bigfoot Goes to the DMV

Yvette DeChavez: Lives of the Saints

Zephaniah Sole: Semana Santa, 1980

Chloe N. Clark: Apparent Magnitudes

Mohammad Hakima: Mickey Mouse Jihad

Amy Purcell: And You Are Not It

Helena Pantsis: The Rules of Fermentation

Elissa C. Huang: Teresa Teng Never Knew Doris Day

Jessica Nirvana Ram: Undoing

Priya Ele: The Balcony Scene

POETRY

Joshua Garcia: Daffodils / Williamsburg

Shiyang Su: After Revisiting Yangtze, Chongqing

Jace Smellie: that bird

Chelsea Dingman: An Elsewhere

Andrew Ketcham: dial 1 for support if you’ve no father to call

Monica Prince: Kitchen / Not Yet

Sodïq Oyèkànmí: the halo of our dreams

Rosa Castellano: Survival

Urvashi Bahuguna: The Tape Skips & Skips & Skips

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi: Tell Me What You Thought Life Would Be

Marty Saunders: Echo Heard at Eliza Furnace No. 2 | Old Jones & Laughlin Steel Works, Pittsburgh

Liala Zaray: Drunken Love Letters Postmarked From Cusco

Haolun Xu: The First Horse

Topaz Winters: Nocturne for Changing the Subject

Carolyn Supinka: Fire Season

Jaz Sufi: Genesis 3:4

Franklin K.R. Cline: Order Up

John A. Nieves: Jawbroken (Iteration 2)

Elaine Johanson: Motion Picture

Rita Mookerjee: The Trouble Is

Huan He: The Worm

Jeffrey Hermann: I’m Thinking of Becoming a Beekeeper

Melissa Crowe: In the Other Universe, I Have a Bear / Tattoo

NONFICTION/HYBRID

Sienna Zeilinger: Another Avalanche

grace (ge) gilbert: Gestalt

Jodie Noel Vinson: Flight of the Painted Lady

Andrea Lynn Koohi: What We Were Eating

Afton Montgomery: Ghostbody Inheritance

E.E. Hussey: Bones and Honey

Ark Ramsay: Select Questions from the DS-160: Partial Application for a Non-Immigrant American Visa

lauren samblanet: on being possessed

Monmita Chakrabarti: Hunting Season

Claire Wahmanholm: Anyway