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

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August 9, 2021

Kelsey Norris

Kelsey Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. Her work has been published in or is forthcoming from Georgia Review, Oxford American, Black Warrior Review, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She was a Tin House Summer […]

July 26, 2021

Suzie Eckl

Suzie Eckl’s work is published or forthcoming in the Arkansas International, where she won the 2020 Emerging Writer’s Prize; Nimrod International Journal, where she won the 2020 Francine Ringold Award […]

July 12, 2021

Carolyne Wright

Carolyne Wright has studied, written, and translated in Chile, Brazil, West Bengal, and Bangladesh on Fulbright and other fellowships. In 2018, she held a residency at the Instituto Sacatar in […]

June 21, 2021

Sophie Beck

Sophie Beck lives in Denver, Colorado. Her work has appeared in the Point, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. An excerpt from her essay “Never Punk” can be found here. It appears […]

June 7, 2021

Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan is a lecturer in the English Department at UC Berkeley. His poems appear in Paris Review, Yale Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. He grew up in rural Kansas […]

May 24, 2021

Gina Chung

Gina Chung is a Brooklyn-based Korean American writer and MFA fiction candidate at the New School. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Catapult, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, F(r)iction, Fugue, Wigleaf, […]

May 10, 2021

Bill Carty

Bill Carty is the author of Huge Cloudy (Octopus Books, 2019), which was long-listed for the Believer Book Award. He has received poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center […]

April 26, 2021

Miriam Grossman

Miriam Grossman is an MFA candidate at the University of Virginia. She was the winner of the 2018 ALSCW Meringoff Award in Fiction and has published work in Literary Matters. […]

April 12, 2021

Burnside Soleil

Burnside Soleil grew up in a houseboat on the bayou but these days is a pilgrim in New Orleans. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], Southampton Review, […]

March 29, 2021

Winona León

Winona León is a writer and artist from Far West Texas. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate in fiction […]

March 15, 2021

Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous CHamoru poet from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the author of five books of poetry and the coeditor of five anthologies. He […]

February 28, 2021

Paul Nemser

Paul Nemser’s third book of poetry, A Thousand Curves, won the Editor’s Choice Award from Red Mountain Press and is forthcoming in April 2021. His book Taurus (2013) won the […]