COVER ART BY CAMILA GARCIA

WAASNODE SHORT FICTION PRIZE

Ucheoma Onwutuebe: Man

NEUTRINO SHORT-SHORT PRIZE

Kelly Gray: A Note on Sex and Death on the Beach

Zuwa Collins: Fade into the Heavy Downpour

Paula Harris: when I was fucking a lot of men when I was 19 and 20 (and 18, and 21) I was fully aware that it was partly because I love sex and partly because—having grown up being told I am unlovable—I craved that feeling of being wanted, even for a few hours

SHORT-SHORTS

aureleo sans: chiquita bonita / la flash

A.J Rodriguez: Lenguaje

Raphael Rae: Speech Acts and Shadow Plays / Peeling the Rind

Janelle Bassett: My White Tiger is Too Weak to Eat Me

Shiksha Dheda: The Never Changing View

Eileen Tomarchio: From Up Here

Ra’Niqua Lee: From the Olive Tree with Love

Jackie Sabbagh: Connor

Sneha Subramanian Kanta: Four Questions to Never Ask an Immigrant

Aaron H. Aceves: Remarkable

Charli Spier: Ruin Gazer

Ayotola Tehingbola: H

Elizabeth Cabrera: Come In You’re Welcome Here / Chameleon

S.S. Mandani: Robo Barista / Flash Fiction

Terena Elizabeth Bell: Regression

Carolyn Oliver: The Alcestis Machine

Michelle Menting: The Receiving Ground

Love Kall: Give and Take

Jada Renee Ford: Curse

Christopher Notarnicola: Off Krome

Lindy Biller: White Out / In Response to Your Claim that Commitment Isn’t Natural

Suzy Eynon: Kiss the Sea Cucumber

Ruth Joffre: A Girl and Her Ghosts

FICTION

Vincent Anioke: All the Failures of Her Being

Nic Anstett: Love Machine

Justine Teu: Our Lady

Caelyn Cobb: You Up?

Elena Selk: The Boy Who Cried

Gen Del Raye: Hideto, in Motion and at Rest

Meghana Mysore: Hair Bright as the Moon

Nikki Ervice: Letters from the Moon

POETRY

Steven Espada Dawson: portrait of my missing brother caught in a spiderweb / Litany of Brother’s Heirlooms

Lyn Li Che: Ogress

Corine Huang: Abreaction//Catasterism

Zoë Fay-Stindt: Therapy over Fish Basket at Bubba’s

Amy Liu: Mandarin Peels in Parallel

Noor Khashe Brody: Home is a country triangulating you and me

Leila Walker: Abundance

Bonnie Jill Emanuel: Apollo 11

Ellery Beck: On Collapse

Isaura Ren: Cutting Teeth

Evan Williams: The Night Mare / The New Moon / Space Beard

Stefanie Kirby: Abruption

Emilee Kinney: Sisters

Katie McMorris: Oscines

Veronica Silva: In Defense of the Wife

Jason Gordon: The Flat Earth Spins Like A Record / The Pills I Take in the Morning

NONFICTION/HYBRID

H.K. Agustin: Crash Course on Dating A White Boy: When You First Realize You Like Him / Crash Course on Dating A White Boy: When You Meet His Parents on Thanksgiving / Crash Course on Dating A White Boy: When You Find Out All His Exes Are White Women / Quits

Molly Sutton Kiefer: Aeolian Landscape

Erika Eckart: Tethered

Camille U. Adams: Mas Does Start at Memorial Park

Charles Brown: Notes on the Biracial Advantage

Charles Jensen: Survival Horror

Alex DiFrancesco: The Second Assault -or- How Did You Get Here?: A Multiple Choice Quiz

Kate McGunagle: Girl Wanting