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

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November 3, 2025

Tiger Mom

By Qiaorui Zhang

Pay attention,Her stripes meld into celestia,brushstrokes of a forgotten god—She sprints with precision;bloodsong tincts the marrow of dusk. Hurry,harvest the sacred offal tosate the nascent fangs,purge the shadows of maliceas […]

November 3, 2025

Introduction

By Cate Marvin

All of the entrants in the Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers contest should know that it was very hard for me to choose these runners-up and a winner. […]