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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

Rose Lambert-Sluder

Patience
Mark Mayer

Twin
Clarence Harlan Orsi

Not Here to Make Friends
Olivia Postelli

Thoughts on Flight
Hillary Stringer

Pillars of Creation

Nonfiction

Lisa Ellison

Half-Life
Jared Lemus

A Sort-of-True, but Mainly Not, Origin and Love Story
Kanan Makiya

The Dying Lion

Poetry

Mark Conway

cult rivers of the interior
David Freeman

Survivor Looks at Leda and the Swan; Survivor
Natasha Oladokun

“Let my anger be the celebration we were never / supposed to have.”; Living on a Ghost Plantation / Love Poem
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan

At the burning ghats
Caki Wilkinson

Jocks