Fiction
Amber Baird’s “Stella’s Stars” from PULP Lit Mag
Brittany Micka-Foos’s “Lessons in Transmogrification” from NonBinary Review
Claudia Monpere’s “Girl Locks” from Split Lip Magazine
Mylene Fernandez Pintado’s “Ana and the Chance Encounters,” translated by Dick Cluster from Another Chicago Magazine
Adelina Sarkisyan’s “Juliets” from Tiny Molecules
Poetry
Adebowale Adelegan’s “Boys in the Whip” from Harbor Review
Destiny O. Birdsong’s “David and Jonathan Meet in a Field Outside Ramah” from The Account
Zoe Boyer’s “Something to Cry About” from RockPaperPoem
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer’s “IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT” from $ – Poetry Is Currency
Nicole Callihan’s “My Mother’s Dog” from Still: The Journal
Victoria Chang’s “3” from Aster(ix)
Cortney Lamar Charleston’s “It’s Important I Remember That Fascism Didn’t Come to America, It Was Already Here—” from The Common
Chen Chen’s “Quintessence: For Recreational Purposes” from The Rejoinder
Nain Christopherson’s “Irises” from SUNHOUSE Literary
Kai Coggin’s “Ode to the Hornworm” from About Place Journal
John Cullen’s “Snagged” from Eclectica Magazine
Amanda Dettman’s “My Co-Teacher Still Comes to School After Miscarrying” from Arkana
Chiara Di Lello’s “To the Four Spiders Statistics Says I Will Swallow in My Lifetime” from Stone Circle Review
Whitney L. Duncan’s “Expert Witness Reviews Exhibits for Asylum Proceedings, Franco-González Class Member” from SAPIENS
Kristina Erny’s “Self Portrait with a Bowl of Noodles in 私房牛肉面” from Harbor Review
Teddy L. Friedline’s “Self Portrait as Roadkill” from Vagabond City
Sarah Giragosian’s “Whale Fall” from The Dodge
Mónica Gomery’s “Make a Tzohar in the Ark” from Radar Poetry
Alex Grehy’s “The Crows Remember” from Gnashing Teeth Publishing
Jessica Hammack’s “Free Country” from Baltimore Review
KT Herr’s “Leitmotif with norovirus and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” from American Literary Review
Maggie Rue Hess’s “Atone, San Antone” from Same Faces Collective
Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi’s “This is the soul of my soul” from MAYDAY
K Ho’s “Readiness Assessment Form” from The Margins
Arumandhira Howard’s “no planet for bad bitches” from Honey Literary
Jessica Hsu’s “Aerophobia, or the fear of flying” from Passengers Journal
Ann Hudson’s “The Dinner Party” from Sugared Water
Brandon Sun Eagle Jent’s “Instructions for Surviving a One Thousand Year Flood” from Still: The Journal
Luke Johnson’s “Hypnagogia” from One
Mickie Kennedy’s “A Good, Long Steep” from Apple Valley Review
Mickie Kennedy’s “Grimace” from New Ohio Review
Mickie Kennedy’s “The Price” from COMP: an interdisciplinary journal
Neysa King’s “Clit” from SoFloPoJo – South Florida Poetry Journal
Thomas Kneeland’s “Purchasing the Visa In-Person” from Ghudsavar Literary Magazine
Madeline Kramer’s “Self-Portrait while Visiting my Parents for Christmas” from ArLiJo – The Arlington Literary Journal
Lance Larsen’s “What Comes Back Driving across Texas at 3:00 AM” from Bracken
Rickey Laurentiis’s “Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)” from The Common
Sharon Lin’s “Mythmaking” from Porter House Review
Lea Marshall’s “Five days ago there was still time to turn back” from Rise Up Review
Calgary Martin’s “Augustine” from Booth
Alison McBain’s “Morning Ritual” from The Wild Umbrella
Vanessa Y. Niu’s “Cutting the Last Watermelon of the Season” from No Tokens
Adesiyan Oluwapelumi’s “There are no more butterflies here.” from Tab Journal
Ekoko Pauline Omadeke’s “My Body Is Seven Heads Long” from The Missouri Review
Rachael Peckham’s “Here’s a Love Poem to Joel” from Club Plum Literary Journal
Charlene Pierce’s “How to Hear God While Making Thanksgiving Dinner” from The Good Life Review
Samantha Pious’s “The Curator” from Light
Jessy Randall’s “Ellen Eglin (before 1849–after 1890)” from Mobius: The Journal of Social Change
Tyler Raso’s “self-portrait as that one scene from Pokémon: The First Movie” from Electric Literature: The Commuter
nat raum’s “A Photo Bro Asked Me a Patronizing Question in 2016 & I Am Still Thinking About It” from Split Lip Magazine
Siobhán Scarry’s “Language Recovery” from The Missouri Review
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh’s “We Live In Yellow” from FlashFlood
Carrie Shipers’s “Home Health with Revision” from Zone 3
Dara-Lyn Shrager’s “Little Knives” from Pacifica Literary Review
Danez Smith’s “Sioux Falls” from The Adroit Journal
Nur Turkmani’s “Glass for Breakfast” from The Offing
Kaleigh Walter’s “Let Down Your Hair” from West Trestle Review
Anne Marie Wells’s “Like a Snail I’ll Taste the World an Inch at a Time” from Valiant Scribe
Patrick Wilcox’s “On Word Choice” from Southeast Review
Kristie L. Williams’s “My Daddy Taught Me To Save Myself” from Does It Have Pockets
Ellen June Wright’s “After Learning of His Castration” from LEON Literary Review
Nonfiction
Khalil AbuSharekh’s “Zeppole (aka Awama)” from Your Impossible Voice
Jana Amin’s “The Colors of Siyam” from Qafiyah Review
Molly Bolton’s “Cosmic Slip” from Whale Road Review
Melanie Bryant’s “When I Was California” from Chautauqua
Megan Doney’s “Men Appear to Me as Monsters” from The Ilanot Review
Lori Yeghiayan Friedman’s “The Emperor’s Dentist” from Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine
Jennifer Givhan’s “Baby Fever” from The Offing
Laura Hope-Gill’s “The Weight of Light” from North Carolina Literary Review
Geetha Iyer’s “Love Songs in Other Languages” from Ecotone
D.T. Lumpkin’s “Undetermined Circumstances” from Winning Writers
Rose McLarney’s “Negative” from Bluestem Magazine
Leanna Petronella’s “Sang the Rat to the Pied Piper” from Fugue
Ifreen Raveen’s “A Case for Forbidden Words” from SmokeLong Quarterly
Elise Thi Tran’s “Cortege of Small Things” from Blackbird
Andrew Zubiri’s “Empirical Evidence: An Abecedary” from Ninth Letter
Art
Suzi Banks Baum’s “Story Cloth Nesting” from Does It Have Pockets
Yolanda Fundora’s “Gingko Moon” from DMQ Review
J’Atelier9’s “Flourish” from Harpur Palate
Marie C Lecrivain’s “Crone 3” from Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women’s Arts and Writing Journal
Narsiso Martinez’s “USA Product” from The Common
Octavio Quintanilla’s “Pasaporte 36” from Talon Review
Michael Young’s “Resting on the Rocks, April” from Split Lip Magazine