A special thank you, too, to our judges Natasha Trethewey and Brad Watson.
Poetry Contest Winner: Judged by Natasha Trethewey
Jennifer Perrine for her poem “On Fallibility”
Fiction Contest Winner: Judged by Brad Watson
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz for her story "Cut-Out"
Poetry Contest Finalists:
Gary Jackson: “Pit Stop”
Nandi Comer: “Chicken”
Bill Carty: “The Third”
Richard Boada: “Mississippi Sound”
Allison Hutchcraft: “Body, Won’t You Go a Little Further”
Ryan Browne: “Litany at the Gates”
Nicole Sealey: “Unframed”
Mark Brewin: “On Thunderstorms”
Nadine Meyer: “The Lace Maker’s Bloom”
Jeremiah Childers: “That the Snag and Its Roots May Burn” and “Wading through My Mother’s Psychosis, Pliny the Elder Recounts”
Fiction Contest Finalists:
Chidelia Edochie: “Things of Beauty”
Scott Marengo: “Ballpark Sushi”
Ernest K. Allaire: “You Don’t Mean Me No Good”
Paul Takeuchi: “Unhappy Women I Have Loved”
Jordan Sullivan: “Wuss”
Raf Leon Dahlquist: “Dr. Dr. M Undergoes a Starch-ectomy”
Karen Uhlmann: “Amalfi”
