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

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February 20, 2018

Where Writing Takes Us

By Laura Maylene Walter

I dreamt I was attending a writing residency in a stately, ancient house on a hill. As I walked the grounds to absorb the beauty, I kept thinking, Everyone says […]

December 21, 2017

Taking Off

By Laura Maylene Walter

I am writing this on an airplane, in messy ink, in the back of a book written by the friend of a friend. While packing for this trip, I debated […]

March 31, 2017

When Stones Speak

By Laura Maylene Walter

“In Mexico City, there is a god under every stone, and when the stones speak, they are the memory of our people.” –Elena Poniatowska, in her foreword for Mexico City: […]