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

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October 1, 1945

The Imaginary Jew

By John Berryman

First Prize, 1945 Prize Contest    The second summer of the European War I spent in New York. I lived in a room just below street-level on Lexington above 34th, […]

October 1, 1945

The Bell

By Mona Van Duyn

Second Prize, 1945 Prize Contest    If Mother were less large, or if the whole front room were not already filled with Mother’s things, each with its value or its […]