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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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May/June 2020 |

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Fiction

Liz Breazeale

A Brief Catalog of Perfect Women
Sakinah Hofler

Erasure
J.D. Hosemann

File, Edit, View, History
Tara Lindis

The Glowing
Sara Schaff

My Husband’s Second Wife
Ellen Weeren

Lemon Trees

Poetry

Kathy Fagan

Conqueror
Amanda Gunn

Chronic; Bad Romance
Sandra McPherson

Lemma; Dilemma; Trilemma
Bonnie Naradzay

Poem with a Phrase from Bishop

Nonfiction

Neema Avashia

Chemical Bonds
Ella Finer

Listening in Common in Uncommon Times
Doreen Oliver

The Cold of Winter
JJ Peña

violence inside us