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

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July 13, 2020

Nicola Dixon

Nicola Dixon is a UK-born, Philly-fortified author. She received a 2018 Pushcart nomination for creative nonfiction and was published in the December 2018 issue of the Hong Kong Review. She […]

June 22, 2020

Joanna Klink

Joanna Klink is the author of four books of poetry. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Montana. Her new book, forthcoming from […]

June 8, 2020

Paul Guest

Paul Guest is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Because Everything Is Terrible, and a memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. His writing has appeared in POETRY, […]

May 25, 2020

Rebecca Morgan Frank

Rebecca Morgan Frank ’s fourth collection of poems, Oh You Robot Saints!, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2021. She is the author of three previous collections of […]

May 11, 2020

Brianna Johnson

Brianna Johnson’s stories have appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, FIVE:2:ONE Magazine (online), and the Molotov Cocktail. She received a 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination for work featured in Gigantic Sequins (Issue 9.2). […]

April 20, 2020

Cortney Lamar Charleston

Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Pushcart Prize–winning poet and the author of Telepathologies (Saturnalia Books, 2017). He was awarded a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the […]

April 6, 2020

Rebecca Nison

Rebecca Nison is the author and illustrator of a graphic poetry collection, If We’d Never Seen the Sea, and her work has appeared in Catapult, F(r)iction, Pank, Weave, Bushwick Review, […]

March 23, 2020

LaToya Watkins

LaToya Watkins’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space (2018), the Sun (2018), McSweeney’s (2017), West Branch (2017), and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and scholarships from […]

March 9, 2020

Joseph Earl Thomas

Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Northeast Philly, whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Apiary, Philadelphia Printworks, and The Offing. A memoirist and poet, he also wonders […]

February 24, 2020

Marwa Helal

Marwa Helal is the author of Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019). She has been awarded fellowships from Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, Cave Canem, and is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. […]

February 10, 2020

Christopher Kondrich

Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). […]

January 27, 2020

Alison Townsend

Alison Townsend is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, The Blue Dress and Persephone in America, and a volume of prose, The Persistence of Rivers: An Essay on […]