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

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January 3, 2014

Wes Holtermann

Wes Holtermann is a graduate of the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He lives in Berkeley, California. His story “Hurricane” was a runner-up for the 2013 Kenyon […]

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December 23, 2013

David J. Daniels

David J. Daniels is the author of Clean, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize, and two chapbooks, Breakfast in the Suburbs and Indecency. He teaches in the University […]

December 13, 2013

Jaquira Díaz

Jaquira Díaz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and an NEA Fellowship to the Hambidge Center for the […]

December 3, 2013

Paisley Rekdal

Paisley Rekdal’s most recent volume of poems is Animal Eye (Pitt, 2012). Her poems “A Peacock in a Cage” and “Mortal Love” appear in the Winter 2014 issue of The […]

November 20, 2013

Jackie Gorman

Jackie Gorman’s collection of stories, The Viewing Room, based on her hospital chaplaincy experiences, will be published this fall by University of Georgia Press as the winner of the Flannery […]

November 8, 2013

Jeremiah Childers

Jeremiah Childers is a former editorial assistant to Ninth Letter and the recipient of a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is currently a Zell Fellow at […]

October 28, 2013

Karen Brown

Karen Brown is the author of Pins and Needles: Stories, which received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, and Little Sinners and Other Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner […]

October 18, 2013

Brian Teare

A former NEA Fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the […]

October 7, 2013

Meaghan Winter

Meaghan Winter holds a BA from Kenyon College and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in New York City and is at work on a novel based on “Shame […]

September 26, 2013

Lee Sharkey

Lee Sharkey is the author of Calendars of Fire (Tupelo Press, 2013) and three other full-length collections. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Field, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, and Seattle Review. […]

September 19, 2013

Austin Smith

Austin Smith is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. He has had poems published in the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, Yale Review, Pleiades, Poetry East, and others. […]

September 12, 2013

Melissa Kwasny

Melissa Kwasny is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Nine Senses (Milkweed Editions, 2011). Her prose collection, Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision, was recently […]