Selected by Cyrus Cassells
Laura Da’s “The Ubiquitous Garden” from A Dozen Nothing
B. Do’s “Revision” from The Cincinnati Review
Elizabeth Huggins’s “Aphrodite as a Fat Woman” from Redivider
Suze Kay’s “SELFISH GIRL” from The Turning Leaf Journal
Mike Liu’s “mother tongue” from Zhagaram
Meghan Miraglia’s “Jockey” from Arkana
Sreeja Naskar’s “they say the rice won’t grow without food” from South Broadway Press
Gustav Parker Hibbett’s “After Practice, A Black Boy Goes Supernova” from The Adroit Journal
Ziqr Peehu’s “Every Grave Starts as a Hole” from Rust and Moth
Merrick Sloane’s “Searching for Queer Joy in Tennessee” from Garden Party Collective