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

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June 5, 2015

My My Emily Dickinson

By Meg Shevenock

Last week I finally visited Emily Dickinson’s house, a place that had haunted me as though I’d been there before but couldn’t recall the wallpaper, and couldn’t let go of trying […]

March 20, 2015

Beknowst

By Meg Shevenock

(Part 1 of 2 on the fragment) “…a sense of the parallel between our always fragmentary knowledge and the continual progress toward perfect understanding that never withers away.” –Susan Howe, […]