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

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Fiction

Looking at Water

By Kathleen Spivack

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Two Spots

By Ernest J. Finney

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Survival Week

By Jim Hall

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Sicilian Vespers

By Murray Pomerance

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Belles Excentriques

By Murray Pomerance

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Nonfiction

Poetry

Walking Past Midnight

By John Morgan

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Neptune’s Daughter

By John Morgan

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The Third Walk: Mckinley Park Hotel to Mount Healy Overlook

By John Morgan

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Attacking the Pietà

By Stephen Corey

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The Silence

By Jon Silkin

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The Levels

By Jon Silkin

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The Bear Woman

By Linda Taylor

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Supper at LaPush

By Linda Taylor

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From Penelope’s Journal: Learning to Walk Alone

By Judith Ortiz Cofer

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From Penelope’s Journal: The Drowned Sailor

By Judith Ortiz Cofer

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The Pruning

By Lucy Shawgo

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Ordination

By Lucy Shawgo

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Sunday, Reading Late, September 28

By Greg Kuzma

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Pheasant Season

By Greg Kuzma

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Walking like a Waterspider

By Keller Cushing Freeman

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Outliving My Son

By Jan Bailey-Wofford

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Balm

By Jan Bailey-Wofford

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Tía Joanna

By Frank Gaspar

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Golden Colt Ranch

By Frank Gaspar

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Book Reviews