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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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Poetry

Daniel Corrie

Rising, Opening, Encompassing
Amit Majmudar

1914: The Name Game
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar
Meghan Privitello

The Minotaur; ENEMIES, LOVE YOUR
Hannah Saiz

The Triangle
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Anchor
Ryan Teitman

Visitations
Kenny Williams

Filler Material; The Sunbath
Phillip B. Williams

Birth of the Doppelgänger

Fiction

Molia Dumbleton

If She Were to Lay Down
Melissa Goodrich

Super
Hiba Krisht

The Witnessing
Ted McLoof

Anhedonia
Meghan Tear Plummer

Charley, Bayou
Sofi Stambo

Goods
Mika Taylor

A Reader

Essay

Marcia Aldrich

Autumn Sonata
Lance Larsen

Riding the Bus

Drama

Yasmine Beverly Rana

Fauna and Blood

Interview

Karen Malpede

A Conversation with Darragh McKeon
Ronald A. Sharp

A Conversation with Philip Schultz

Review

Joelle Biele

“Don’t You Blow Your Trumpet until You Hear from Me”: T. J. Jarrett’s Ain’t No Grave
Goldie Goldbloom

The Unwanted: Death and Decay in the Americas
Daniel Green

Complete Fictions: On the Rewritings of Gabriel Blackwell
Matthew Jakubowski

Self-Portrait with Chokehold: Joanna Howard’s Foreign Correspondent
Anna Journey

The River’s Asylum: Joshua Poteat’s Steampunk Pastoral
Jacqueline Kolosov

What We Are Able to Hold
Mike Puican

The Personal and the Universal: Lullaby (with Exit Sign) by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Ronald A. Sharp

On Philip Schultz’s The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse
Lindsay Turner

All sunless gestures will remain oblique”: On Jackqueline Frost’s The Antidote