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Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Fiction

The Frog Princess

By Graham Petrie

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Ray: An Excerpt from the Novella

By Barry Hannah

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Sinai

By Michael Tobias

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Charybdis

By T E Holt

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Turning

By Lynda Sexson

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Nonfiction

Poetry

From Manhattan Carnival: A Dramatic Monologue

By Frederick Feirstein

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Whole Hours of Us

By James Reiss

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Ross’s Eyes

By Margaret Benbow

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Sauna

By Margaret Benbow

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Kala

By Margaret Benbow

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The Child-Bride

By Joyce Carol Oates

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Love’s Desert

By János Pilinszky, translated by Emery George

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With Horace

By David Ignatow

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News from Fort Ancient

By Michael S. Harper

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Poem without Anybody

By Anthony Hecht

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Reaching Around

By Judith Moffett

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