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Rita Ciresi Some Things You Can Ask Me /// Jen Corrigan Accommodating /// Ryan Habermeyer The Inheritors /// Tyler Sones The Right Place /// Emily Townsend There’s Nothing Past This /// Francine Witte When Zac, 32, Strolls In IRL
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Ellen Adams searched /// Yvonne Amey The Way I Can’t Breathe When I Think of You /// Josh Bettinger Waltz of the White Bird A Cloud Against the Sky /// Nicholas Brown Anyone Going Already Knows What’s Gone /// Erika Jo Brown Delovely /// Kristene Kaye Brown All My Lottery Tickets Are Duds /// Charlotte Covey What I’ve Learned /// Teri Ellen Cross Davis A Black Woman Gets a Window Seat on Aer Lingus /// Darren C. Demaree bone requires bone #13-15 /// Rita Feinstein Persephone Waits For Spring /// Heikki Huotari Another Aftershock /// Denise Jarrott Big Stone Lake /// Patrick Kindig summer, like a nosebleed /// Mingpei Li Still Life With Splenectomy /// Autumn McClintock Taxol /// Mary Mussman Rue du Cherche-Medi /// Megan Paranich The Industry of Edmonton /// Kelly R. Samuels Perceived Distance /// John Sibley Williams Brevity
2018 FICTION CONTEST WINNER + HONORABLE MENTION
Kathryn Hill Berried (W)
Rebecca Keller Experimental Methods (HM)
2018 POETRY CONTEST WINNER
Tracy May Fuad An Abridged History of Buttons
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Ashley Kuo & Nicci Yin /// Dacdac
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Kodiak Armstrong Blue Monday/// Sally Burnette 3 Flash Fictions /// Rebecca Chekouras Happy Lucky Gas /// Cody Greene Big Cats /// Phillip Sterling Hannah /// Annie Vitalsey Little Washington
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Hussain Ahmed Wi-Fi in a Museum /// Robin Cedar The Papers Read: Today, She Was Stolen /// Georgia Dennison Mount Saint Helens— /// Ariel Francisco Watching Planes Take Off in Late Evening While High on Shrooms /// Alex Gallo-Brown Relief /// David Gustavsen Instructions for Humility /// Lucy Hitz Do You Know How Awful It Is? /// Kari Treese Birth Day
2017 FICTION CONTEST WINNER
Margaret Adams Bargains
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Ally Creighton /// Briana Shewan
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Rosie Adams Planet Ice /// M.J. Arlett Fatigue /// T.J. Fuller Where’d You Go? /// Thomas Larson The Reliably Spirited Author /// Caleb Tankersley Brasilia, 2003
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E. Yeon Chang Wolves & Bears /// Edward Derby Florida Morning Gun Song /// Noah Eli Gordon There’s Nothing Heavy /// Danika Isdahl A Cave, A Cage, A Cauldron /// Kate Lebo In the Beginning, A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Equal Representation /// Zana Previti My Mother Visits the Hagia Sophia /// Devon Wootten Selections from Gimmie the Pretty: Sonnets
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Raychelle Duazo Portraits /// Erin Halligan Figures
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Erin Halligan
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Rosie Adams Planet Ice /// M.J. Arlett Fatigue /// T.J. Fuller Where’d You Go? /// Thomas Larson The Reliably Spirited Author /// Caleb Tankersley Brasilia, 2003
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E. Yeon Chang Wolves & Bears /// Edward Derby Florida Morning Gun Song /// Noah Eli Gordon There’s Nothing Heavy /// Danika Isdahl A Cave, A Cage, A Cauldron /// Kate Lebo In the Beginning, A Prayer to Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Equal Representation /// Zana Previti My Mother Visits the Hagia Sophia /// Devon Wootten Selections from Gimmie the Pretty: Sonnets
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Raychelle Duazo Portraits /// Erin Halligan Figures
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Erin Halligan
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Ahsan Butt Majid Uncle /// Gen del Raye A Shark Is an Animal that Blushes when You Touch Its Face /// Paula Delgado-King A Kidnapping /// Rachel Linn Anchor
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Jake Bauer A Wedding /// Bill Carty Experiments with Solids, Mutual Fish /// Caylin Capra-Thomas Riverine /// Mackenzie Cole No Longer /// Sarah B. Puschmann Dear Maraschino Cherry /// Maya Jewell Zeller Black Plastic Night, Self-Portrait With Nudity and False Awakening
2017 POETRY CONTEST WINNERS
Alex Bleecker Today is a 5. /// Trinity Tibe Resemblance
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Jean Wolff
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Ryan Diaz
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Michael P. O’Leary Or What Is Now Called Arizona /// Zach Powers Kill The Song of The Approaching Engine /// Dacia Price S Is for Silence /// Matt Rowan Aren’t We Required to Never Be
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Lindsay Ahl Pearls /// Ceridwen Hall After Dinner /// Heikki Huotari Doppler Shift /// Matt Kelsey Gifts My Brother Thinks Might Bring Me Home /// Lillian Nickerson Everybody Loves Somebody but God Loves Everybody /// Andy Stallings Paradise /// Kailey Alyssa and it pleases me /// Cair Weiss Ode to the Other Glove /// John Sibley Williams Sometimes as Mundane as This
Contest without Form Big Boss Winner
Kell Connor Blood in the Eye
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Rachel Endoso Home
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Ryan Diaz
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Michael P. O’Leary Or What Is Now Called Arizona /// Zach Powers Kill The Song of The Approaching Engine /// Dacia Price S Is for Silence /// Matt Rowan Aren’t We Required to Never Be
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Lindsay Ahl Pearls /// Ceridwen Hall After Dinner /// Heikki Huotari Doppler Shift /// Matt Kelsey Gifts My Brother Thinks Might Bring Me Home /// Lillian Nickerson Everybody Loves Somebody but God Loves Everybody /// Andy Stallings Paradise /// Kailey Alyssa and it pleases me /// Cair Weiss Ode to the Other Glove /// John Sibley Williams Sometimes as Mundane as This
Contest without Form Big Boss Winner
Kell Connor Blood in the Eye
Photography
Rachel Endoso Home
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Ryan Diaz
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Nick Greer [Memories] /// Blair Hurley Hoops /// Amy Lam Ma Never Wore Nail Polish /// Stephen Langlois Our Boyfriends
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Kelli Allen Walking through the morning /// Quenton Baker Transient /// Sarah Helen Bates Pompei /// Jennifer Jackson Berry My Father’s Dying in Emojis /// Maggie MK Hess Prayer & America /// Sierra Jacob Environmental Elegy /// Tyler Kline the kind of day /// James Fujinami Moore notes after sex /// Sarah Kathryn Moore Vulnicura /// Kevin Rabas Parise Band Drum /// John Sibley Williams [what comes before and] /// K.L. Yuen XVII
CREATIVE NONFICTION CONTEST WINNER
Martha Clarkson Long Shot
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Ira Joel Haber Seashell Collages /// Rachel Rose Ulgado Affinities From The Furthest Infinities
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Rachel Rose Ulgado
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Jay McAleer Panic /// Ryan Napier Stomach and Heart
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Priscilla Long The Color Orange
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Kayla Rae Candrilli Ghost Story /// Nathan Wade Carter Lake But Not Lake /// Dennis Caswell My Spirit Animal /// Dan Haney Ars Poetica /// David Hargreaves What We All Wanted /// J.W. Marshall In A Bowl /// Julia Anna Morrison Owl /// Elisabeth Murawski Bonsai Lovers /// Noelle O’Reilly Honey Lumper /// Catherine Pond University of Iowa Museum of Natural History & The Captain’s Desk
LOOK & LEAP CONTEST WINNERS
Barbara Harroun Death’s Fabulous Remains /// Kevin McLellan Branching
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Andrew Imanaka
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Jay McAleer Panic /// Ryan Napier Stomach and Heart
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Priscilla Long The Color Orange
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Kayla Rae Candrilli Ghost Story /// Nathan Wade Carter Lake But Not Lake /// Dennis Caswell My Spirit Animal /// Dan Haney Ars Poetica /// David Hargreaves What We All Wanted /// J.W. Marshall In A Bowl /// Julia Anna Morrison Owl /// Elisabeth Murawski Bonsai Lovers /// Noelle O’Reilly Honey Lumper /// Catherine Pond University of Iowa Museum of Natural History & The Captain’s Desk
LOOK & LEAP CONTEST WINNERS
Barbara Harroun Death’s Fabulous Remains /// Kevin McLellan Branching
PHOTOGRAPHY
Andrew Imanaka
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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Within The Walls /// Lawrence Lenhart Let The River Run, Working Girl /// Maya Sonenberg Dark Season
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Sarah Barber Especially when the scarf is beautiful /// Vanessa Gabb Summer /// Sierra Golden Taking Aim /// Benjamin Goodney Some Nights Can Last Four Years /// Johnny Horton Restraint /// Kim Kent How To Kill A Dove As Taught To Me By A Man In This Bar /// Radha Marcum Fission: 1938 (Duet For Otto Frisch and Lisa Meitner) & Dear Tel Aviv /// Michael Metivier Turning Tiger /// Caitlin Scarano After The Tour /// Ed Skoog To Keep Us All Crisp /// Jeff Whitney Fires
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Leena Joshi the center of the dream goes very quietly /// Minh Nguyen Illustrations
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Leena Joshi & Minh Nguyen
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Genevieve Hudson Date Book /// Maxim Loskutoff Medicine Lake /// Nicolette Polek Sabbatical /// Nathan Poole They Were Calling To One Another /// Travis A. Sharp Selected Ru(m)inations
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Ace Boggess When Will You Be Off Paper? /// Brian Cooney Ephemeroptera /// Brittany Dennison Pocket Dial /// Sarah Feldman Orpheus, Singing /// Kevin Honold That the Soul Takes the Shape of the Body & The Girl’s Letter to the Moon & Clay Jar of Wine /// Ron McFarland Battle Hardened
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Jon Garaizar Drawings /// Lance Hewiston Paintings /// Niki Waters Illustrations
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Jon Garaizar
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Genevieve Hudson Date Book /// Maxim Loskutoff Medicine Lake /// Nicolette Polek Sabbatical /// Nathan Poole They Were Calling To One Another /// Travis A. Sharp Selected Ru(m)inations
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Ace Boggess When Will You Be Off Paper? /// Brian Cooney Ephemeroptera /// Brittany Dennison Pocket Dial /// Sarah Feldman Orpheus, Singing /// Kevin Honold That the Soul Takes the Shape of the Body & The Girl’s Letter to the Moon & Clay Jar of Wine /// Ron McFarland Battle Hardened
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Jon Garaizar Drawings /// Lance Hewiston Paintings /// Niki Waters Illustrations
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Jon Garaizar
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Rachel Hermans Goldman Forwards /// Ann LoGerfo Driving To America /// Shena McAuliffe We Are A Teeming Wilderness /// Christopher Moyer What People Are Made Of /// Jillian Quinn Ugly Babies
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Bill Carty Mutual Forest /// Donald Dunbar No Gods No Masters /// Julie Feng Birthday, Again /// Rae Gouirand Her Own /// Peter Moench Calculations /// Bud “Weasel” Rice The Dominion of Colour /// Philip Schaefer Evening News /// Catherine Simpson Christy /// Rich Smith Il Figlio Che Piange & Loss After Loss
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Marilyn Champagne Photographs /// Chase Kunz Commie Sauce /// Nicolas Menard Deux Illustrations
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Chase Kunz
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William Klein Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow /// Paul Luikart War /// Kristen Millares Young Ebb Tide /// Kristy Webster The Need
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Lance Garland Yacht Names At Carillion Point /// Johnny Horton + Rebecca Hoogs + Sierra Nelson + Rachel Kessler On Ischia & Arrivederci Ischia /// Owen Lucas 292 & 324 /// Sierra Nelson Destruction Island Could Be Seen in the Distance & Letter to the Atlanteans /// Micheal J. Pagan A Shudder, To Think /// Kristen Steenbeeke Springtime /// Olga Vilkotskaya Elk & Memory of an Orchid & Typewriter
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Kim Lyle Jellyfish Lake /// Sierra Nelson When We Had Crossed the Threshold of the Door
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William Klein Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow /// Paul Luikart War /// Kristen Millares Young Ebb Tide /// Kristy Webster The Need
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Lance Garland Yacht Names At Carillion Point /// Johnny Horton + Rebecca Hoogs + Sierra Nelson + Rachel Kessler On Ischia & Arrivederci Ischia /// Owen Lucas 292 & 324 /// Sierra Nelson Destruction Island Could Be Seen in the Distance & Letter to the Atlanteans /// Micheal J. Pagan A Shudder, To Think /// Kristen Steenbeeke Springtime /// Olga Vilkotskaya Elk & Memory of an Orchid & Typewriter
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Kim Lyle Jellyfish Lake /// Sierra Nelson When We Had Crossed the Threshold of the Door
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J.P. Kemmick The Paper Route /// Lisa Nicholas Ritscher Pentimenti /// Michael Sheedy What Ha’e the Dobkins Willy?
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Hans Anderson Granny Smith /// William Camponovo Los Angeles Shoals & Gesture & Shelter /// Maggie MK Hess This Life Is Sturdy, Built For Crossing the Atlantic /// Leena Joshi Arse Poetica /// Evan Klavon After Columbus Day /// Amanda McConnen Tell Me Something About The Dead /// Corey Mesler Some Times in Fairy Tales /// Sarah Kathryn Moore Tete a Tete & Port Townsend /// Christopher Phelps A Piece of Dream /// Christopher Robley North /// Joannie Stangeland Mixed Media /// Jake Uitti Indiana /// Joshua Wilkinson A Brief History of the Wilds & Poem To Schuyler’s Ghost
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Julie Seltzer illustrations from Nine Stories /// Nicole Ramirez Cabugao, Phillipines
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Ryan Diaz