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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

Taira L. Anderson

Wet Nurse
Angie Sijun Lou

The Nü Country
Erin McGraw

Cruise
Amy Lynne McKenzie

Shit Face
Grace Shuyi Liew

Old Bones
Thomas Renjilian

Chronological Influence of the US Presidents on my Psychosexual Development

Nonfiction

Laura Hoffman

Keep This to Yourself
Catherine Ricketts

Weaning: Intimacy and Independence in Alice Neel’s Mother Pictures
Abigail Rose

Undertow

Poetry

Mark Anthony Cayanan

A Study of Two Towns; Miracle Town, a Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Miho Nonaka

Fragrant Harbor
Lea Schneider Translated by Bradley Schmidt

a hole in paper big enough