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

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February 2, 2013

Jacob Newberry

Jacob Newberry is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Florida State University, where he is the recipient of the University Fellowship. He has also been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship […]

January 10, 2013

Rebecca McClanahan

Rebecca McClanahan’s tenth book, The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change, a multigenerational memoir, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2013. She has […]

January 3, 2013

Cynthia Cruz

Cynthia Cruz is the author of Ruin, published in 2006 by Alice James Books, and The Glimmering Room, published by Four Way Books in fall of 2012. Her work has […]

November 30, 2012

Matthew Eck

Matthew Eck’s debut novel, The Farther Shore, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. He was recently selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under […]

November 19, 2012

Kimberly Meyer

Kimberly Meyer’s essays have appeared in Ecotone, Oxford American, Georgia Review, Agni, Southern Review, Fourth Genre, and Brain, Child, and her audio-documentary work has aired on This American Life. She […]

November 11, 2012

Christopher Phelps

Christopher Phelps studied physics and philosophy at MIT before poetry (be)came correct. His work appears or is forthcoming in magazines including Awl, FIELD, Lumina, New Republic, and in the anthology Collective […]

October 24, 2012

Michele Christle

Michele Christle grew up in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. She served in the Peace Corps in Cameroon. She is currently attending the MFA program for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst […]

October 17, 2012

Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang’s second book of poems, Salvinia Molesta, was published by the University of Georgia Press as part of the VQR Poetry Series. Her first book, Circle, was published by […]

October 6, 2012

Cecily Parks

Cecily Parks is the author of the chapbook Cold Work (Poetry Society of America, 2005) and the collection Field Folly Snow (University of Georgia Press, 2008), which was a finalist […]

September 26, 2012

Ruth Joffre

Ruth Joffre is currently an MFA candidate at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taken third in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and has published shorter work at Drunken Boat, […]

August 27, 2012

Jake Adam York

Jake Adam York is the author of Persons Unknown (2010) and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), published in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005). Recent […]

August 21, 2012

Hugh Sheehy

Hugh Sheehy’s story collection, The Invisibles, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press this October.  His story “Meat and Mouth” appears in the Summer 2012 issue of The Kenyon […]