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

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February 1, 2021

Janika Oza

Janika Oza is a writer based in Toronto. She was the winner of the 2019 Malahat Review Open Season Award in Fiction and has received fellowships from VONA, Tin House, […]

January 11, 2021

Rachel Heng

Rachel Heng is the author of the novels The Great Reclamation (forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2022) and Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which has been translated into ten languages […]

December 21, 2020

G. C. Waldrep

G. C. Waldrep’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the long poem Testament (BOA […]

December 7, 2020

Nancy Zafris

Nancy Zafris is the former fiction editor of the Kenyon Review and the former series editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She has published four books of […]

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November 23, 2020

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, The Age of Phillis, and a 2020 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. She is […]

November 9, 2020

Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore is author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction and many other books. He has published essays […]

October 19, 2020

April Gibson

April Gibson is a poet, essayist, and educator whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Water-Stone Review, PANK, pluck!, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. April is a Fellow of the Poetry […]

October 5, 2020

Starr Davis

Starr Davis is a poet, author, playwright, and professional writer whose work has been featured in multiple literary magazines such as Rumpus, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Transition Magazine. Her monologues, poetry, […]

September 21, 2020

Samuel Jensen

Samuel Jensen is a writer from Texas. He holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where he now teaches. His fiction has appeared […]

September 7, 2020

Sean Thomas Dougherty

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author or editor of eighteen books, including Not All Saints, winner of the 2019 Bitter Oleander Library of Poetry Prize. His book The Second O […]

August 10, 2020

Yalitza Ferreras

Yalitza Ferreras is a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories 2016, Colorado Review, and the anthologies Wise […]

July 27, 2020

Namrata Poddar

Namrata Poddar writes fiction, nonfiction, and serves as interviews editor for Kweli, where she curates a series titled “Race, Power and Storytelling.” Her work has appeared in Longreads, Literary Hub, […]