Issues

Summer/Fall 2009

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2009 Fiction Contest
Rebecca Adams (Winner): “Poland, 1952” (9)
Katherine Ayars (Finalist): “Like the Leg of a Y” (30)
Tara Laskowski (Finalist) “There’s Someone Behind You” (56)
J. Annie MacLeod: “Blink) (71)

Poetry
Lilah Hegnauer: “Rain” (16), “Rain” (17)
Anna King: “Massacre of Light” (18)
Tricia Asklar: “Wake” (19)
Margaret Bashaar: “Dream Theory” (28), “Her Prophecies” (29)
Jane Downs: “Descent” (37), “The Return” (37)
Sara Nicholson: “from _Hymnal Left in the Mound_” (48)
Jennifer Jerome: “Fire at the time factory” (51)
Katie Manning: “Gospels of the Bleeding Woman” (69), “The Resurrection of Nura” (70)
Michael Hood: “Retell” (77), “When You Fell Away To Find Me, I Found Myself Upping and Found You” (78), “Grace and Savagery” (79)

Nonfiction
Cherri Randal: “Jaded Green” (20)
Julie Marie Wade: “Triptych of My Mother, Thwarted Thespian / Auditioning for the Part of her Life / Triptych of My Father, George Bailey in Another Life” (45)
Marcia Aldrich, “Woman, Lying Down” (80)

Visual Art
Archan Nair: “The Golden Ratio” (Cover)
Maria Bychkova: “Untitled” (38), “Cinderella” (39), “The Shape Shifter (Mammalius Kinesis)” (40), “Elena the Beautiful: (41)
Mari Kasurinen: “My Little Batman and Robin” (52), “My Little Joker” (53), “My Little Storm Trooper” (54), “My Little Chewbacca and My Little Han Solo” (55)

Winter/Spring 2009

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2009 Nonfiction Contest Winner and Finalists
Jessica Daigle (Winner): “Inheritance” (11), “Person Filing” (12), “Bruise” (14)
Donna Steiner (Finalist): “Dragonflies, Perching” (28)
Leota McCown-Hoover (Finalist): “The Hunter” (52)
Meghan Cadwallader: “In the Beginning” (61)

2009 Poetry Contest Winner and Finalists
Robin Carstensen (Winner): “Immer Frue: Inscription on Childhood Photo, Giessen Germany, 1967” (9)
Elizabeth Gerber (Finalist): “Kirkwood & Tomatoes” (50)
Rikki Thompson Rogers (Finalist): “You give me flowers to say I love you” (49)
Rebecca Ellis: “Lagniappe” (22)
Ashley Nicole Montjoy: “The Crash” (23)
Roseann Lloyd: “One Spring Dream” (27)
y madrone: “Eve” (34)
Kara Olson: “Starting Point” (36)
Shara Lessley:”Self-Portrait as 18th Centure Automata” (55)
Sara Lier: “Moonfruit” (56)
Anna Claire Hodge: “Park and Fulton, NYC with Child” (58)
Erin Ruzicka Trondson: “Greener Grass” (68)

Fiction
Caitlin Hill: “L’Estate” (15)
Emilia Pardo Bazan: “Laughter (Trans. Thomas Feeny)” (24)
Hannah Kornfeld: “Ace of Cups” (39)

Visual Art
Anne Smoral: “Ophelia” (Cover)
Cassie Swartwout: “Tree Faiths” (21), “Boa #2” (48)
Julie Fiasconaro: “Peacock” (33), “Wednesday Afternoon” (60)

Summer/Fall 2008

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Visual Art Contest judged by Janeil Engelstad

Winner: Andrewa Bergart- "2358"

Fiction Contest judged by Leslie Pietrzyk

Winner: Marylou Fusco- "Untold Stories in the Lives of Saints"

Winter/Spring 2008

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Poetry Contest judged by Marie Howe

Winner: Emily Carr - "yolk (v.)"

Nonfiction Contest judged by Sharon Mehdi

Winner: Kim van Alkemade - "Spinster Punk"

Featuring an Interview with Mark Doty

Summer/Fall 2007

Fiction Contest judged by Lucy Corin

Winner: Jennifer Sears - "Foragers"

Winter/Spring 2007

Poetry Contest judged by Claudia Emerson

Winners: Shelley Renee-Ruiz - "The Jailed Woman", Lauren Eggert-Crowe - "Citrus at Nine", Suellen Wedmore - "London"

Nonfiction Contest judged by Jennifer Lauck

Winner: Laurie Rachkus Uttich - "What the Daughter I Will Never Have Knows"

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