Hari Alluri’s “Clarification Card: The Spiral (‘The cigarette is pretext: smoke rises from within’)”
Jai Hamid Bashir’s “Here, The Wolves”
Samiya Bashir’s “HOW NOT TO STAY UNSHOT IN THE U.S.A.”
Kai Coggin’s “A Baptism Reflecting the Celestial”
Shangyang Fang’s “Declaration Form, U.S. Border”
Alexis Aceves Garcia’s “I’M TIRED OF WORKING FOR ECCENTRIC WHITE MEN”
Robin Gow’s “Mom Paints Her Daughter’s Nails”
Destiny Hemphill’s “we ask mama-n-em, ‘where is the motherworld?'”
Sarah Lao’s “Ponyo (2008) Dreams in Tectonic Scales”
Lauren Licona’s “the first creation story i ever heard”
Nate Marshall’s “slave grammar”
Adrian Matejka’s “Bullet Parts”
Demree McGhee’s “Calling My Mothers In the Apocalypse”
Hieu Minh Nguyen’s “Portrait with Self-Portrait”
Jaz Sufi’s “When My Classmates Ask Me If My Father Took Down the Towers”