[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#e45656′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Author’s Note The three short stories published in Hunger Mountain were written as part of an ongoing collaborative project with cellist/composer/instrument inventor Rafaele Andrade called Un-bow. The stories are named either for bow techniques or musical styles that Rafaele drew… Continue reading Music to Accompany Tim Horvath’s short stories in Issue #25—Art Saves
My Wish for You in the Land of the Dead: a Cuban Sandwich
by Leslie Blanco
Winner, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] See what things have come to? See? Yesterday, I very nearly fell asleep in the grocery line while waiting to buy you a ham.* You don’t like ham. Neither do I. But it’s the tradition. Every year, the ham “provokes”… Continue reading My Wish for You in the Land of the Dead: a Cuban Sandwich
by Leslie Blanco
Winner, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
The Oedipal Myth: a Retelling
by Jeffrey Rapaport
Runner-Up, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Dion moved back to the neighborhood. It defied the change characterizing the rest of the city: new developments, young professionals, coffee shops, and bars—an evaporation, like a puddle retreating into itself, then into nothingness, of crime. But the neighborhood was… Continue reading The Oedipal Myth: a Retelling
by Jeffrey Rapaport
Runner-Up, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
Today You Fly with Me
by Marina Clementi
Honorable Mention, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] I watched my husband’s death on livestream. A minute before impact, he held the camera at arm’s length, waved, and stuck out his tongue. He flipped the bird. “Today you fly with me.” He fastened the GoPro back on his… Continue reading Today You Fly with Me
by Marina Clementi
Honorable Mention, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
In the Shower, When Your Marriage is Finally Over
by Erin Rose Coffin
Winner, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] stand still, then spin in small circles. eyes closed, mouth opened, window cracked. let water pool in your mouth, push it back out. unclench your fists. run your tongue over your teeth. step out of the glass, in front of… Continue reading In the Shower, When Your Marriage is Finally Over
by Erin Rose Coffin
Winner, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Grief Sestina
by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] I met a woman who’d been struck by lightning. She held herself like a firefly when she told me. That’s something I thought. She was now her own gold. I was pregnant then, fourth boy, more full moon than ever.… Continue reading Grief Sestina
by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Quantum Entanglement
by Leslie Williams
Honorable Mention, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] A gang of turkeys has settled in the yard. They’re disagreeable, eating my new grass seed. Ugh the big unbalanced bodies and skinny necks with wattles, caruncles, snoods. Spurred shanks and awful twisting feet. Now a limping jenny goes fancy-footing… Continue reading Quantum Entanglement
by Leslie Williams
Honorable Mention, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
What You Wanted from Me I Imagined
by Nikita Ladd
Winner, Creative Nonfiction Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] I am on top of a truly beautiful woman. I’ll call her Renée. Step back: we’re in her room, on her bed. I’m still wearing my men’s XL winter coat, all ready to walk out into the Connecticut winter. The… Continue reading What You Wanted from Me I Imagined
by Nikita Ladd
Winner, Creative Nonfiction Prize
Indrajaal
by Mitu Malhotra
Overall Winner, Katherine Paterson Prize for Literature for Young Adults & Children
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [/av_one_half] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”]
My Father’s Messiah
by Evelyn Krieger
First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Young Adult Category
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Every school morning, my father wakes me the same way: he yanks open my blinds, slaps his hands together, and says, “Boker tov, beautiful daughter. Time to rise and serve your Creator.” Once upon a time, I didn’t need wake-up… Continue reading My Father’s Messiah
by Evelyn Krieger
First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Young Adult Category
What Olivia Knew
by Emily Young
First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Middle Grade Category
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Fireflies die when they are two months old. They spend those two months lighting up hot summer nights, sometimes flickering in a special way to attract a mate, sometimes just glinting in the dark like earth-fallen stars. The fireflies were… Continue reading What Olivia Knew
by Emily Young
First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Middle Grade Category
An Atom in Space. A Cantaloupe.
by Jen Breach
First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Picture Book Category
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] “The particles of matter are subject to strange vicissitudes. Every atom has its peculiar history” – John Cargill Brough Here is a cantaloupe. Cut it open for that pearly orangepink with a slash of vibrant green. Could you have guessed… Continue reading An Atom in Space. A Cantaloupe.
by Jen Breach
First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Picture Book Category
Someday I’ll Love Ottavia Paluch
by Ottavia Paluch
Winner, International Young Writers Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Ottavia, don’t be scared. You’ll never have less of yourself than you have right now. Don’t fear. Your name is only your name until you make up its’ meaning. Like how the sun and your spine become the same, whenever… Continue reading Someday I’ll Love Ottavia Paluch
by Ottavia Paluch
Winner, International Young Writers Prize
Hunger
by Sarah Fathima Mohammed
Runner-Up, International Young Writers Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] I tighten my body on the rain-softened sidewalk outside our home, waiting for my mother to pick me up and drive me to school. The wide street in front of me is quiet, covered in a thin layer of fog;… Continue reading Hunger
by Sarah Fathima Mohammed
Runner-Up, International Young Writers Prize
The Passage of Human Metamorph: An Interview with Shin Yu Pai
by Micah Dela Cueva
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Micah Dela Cueva: How does the revival or re-emerging of selves journey through different periods of time? Shin Yu Pai: I had a conversation with my Zen teacher today in which we talked about old selves and the convergence of… Continue reading The Passage of Human Metamorph: An Interview with Shin Yu Pai
by Micah Dela Cueva
A Review of Virga by Shin Yu Pai
by Zoey Adam
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Virga by Shin Yu Pai Empty Bowl Press (Aug. 1 2021) $16 paperback 72 pages I knew Shin Yu Pai before I read Virga. That is, I could choose to say it that way. I knew her name, her face… Continue reading A Review of Virga by Shin Yu Pai
by Zoey Adam
2021 Contest Winners Are Here
May Day Mountain Chapbook Prize Winner: Zach Semel, “Let the tides take my body” available for purchase here. Finalists: Mark Keats, “Notes for the Afterlife” Elizabeth McCarthy, “Digging Potatoes” Marisa Tirado, “Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either” Lynn Mundell, “Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us” Kristen Ritter, “Names” Samantha Kolber, “Classified” Linda Lamenza, “Left-Handed Poetry”… Continue reading 2021 Contest Winners Are Here
Rediscovering Magic Through Form in Fairy Tales
by E.E. Jacobs
As a child, my backyard was alive and overgrown in the springtime. A large forsythia bush blossomed into thousands of tiny yellow flowers. I would pluck a few blooms of sunshine, hold them gently in my palm, and climb the branches of my dogwood tree. Up in the canopy, I would sit with the forsythia… Continue reading Rediscovering Magic Through Form in Fairy Tales
by E.E. Jacobs
A Review of Red List Blue
by Rebecca Jamieson
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Red List Blueby Lizzy FoxFinishing Line PressISBN: 978-1-64662-409-6$19.99 paperback57 pages Lizzy Fox’s debut poetry collection Red List Blue is a love song to a planet in crisis. By turns conversational, questioning, incantatory, and pleading, her poems circle a profound central… Continue reading A Review of Red List Blue
by Rebecca Jamieson
An Interview with Sarah Margaret Henry
by Noelle Thomas
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing author Sarah Margaret Henry. Henry’s debut collection of poems intricacies are just cracks in the wall was published in June of 2019. You can read my review of the collection here. During our interview, I… Continue reading An Interview with Sarah Margaret Henry
by Noelle Thomas
A Review of intricacies are just cracks in the wall
by Noelle Thomas
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] intricacies are just cracks in the wall By Sarah Margaret Henry 122 pages. Still Poetry Photography. $15.00 (paper). intricacies are just cracks in the wall, a debut collection of poems and lyrical prose by Sarah M. Henry, came to my… Continue reading A Review of intricacies are just cracks in the wall
by Noelle Thomas
Interview with Emma Anne, author of Speak Your Truth
by Noelle Thomas
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] “Don’t make friends,” is the only piece of advice I remember my older sister giving me before I went to residential treatment for an eating disorder. So, obviously, I found myself terrified when I got to the treatment facility and… Continue reading Interview with Emma Anne, author of Speak Your Truth
by Noelle Thomas
Launching Lightning Bolts with Emari DiGiorgio
A Review by and Interview with Micah Dela Cueva
In The Things A Body Might Become (TTABMB) and Girl Torpedo (GT), the body shapeshifts into the metaphysical, the aethereal, and the untamed—all continuously becoming. Emari DiGiorgio holds a lightning bolt in her fist as she writes against the violence and expectations that men place on women’s bodies. In her poems, she evokes a rite of… Continue reading Launching Lightning Bolts with Emari DiGiorgio
A Review by and Interview with Micah Dela Cueva
Launching Lightning Bolts with Emari DiGiorgio
A Review by and Interview with Micah Dela Cueva
In The Things A Body Might Become (TTABMB) and Girl Torpedo (GT), the body shapeshifts into the metaphysical, the aethereal, and the untamed—all continuously becoming. Emari DiGiorgio holds a lightning bolt in her fist as she writes against the violence and expectations that men place on women’s bodies. In her poems, she evokes a rite of… Continue reading Launching Lightning Bolts with Emari DiGiorgio
A Review by and Interview with Micah Dela Cueva
The Pantry Snake
Shelli Cornelison
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’… Continue reading The Pantry Snake
Shelli Cornelison
The Conductor
Xelena González
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’… Continue reading The Conductor
Xelena González
Hoffa
Lake Freeman
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Lake Freeman lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She holds an MFA… Continue reading Hoffa
Lake Freeman
Five Against Misfortune
Tessa Yang
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’… Continue reading Five Against Misfortune
Tessa Yang
The Blue Dress
Kirie Pedersen
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’… Continue reading The Blue Dress
Kirie Pedersen
Three Weeks
Sony Ton-Aime
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’… Continue reading Three Weeks
Sony Ton-Aime
Search History
C.L. White
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. C.L. White is a poet & journalist living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Originally from Gold Hill, North Carolina, she holds a BA from UNC Chapel Hill… Continue reading Search History
C.L. White
Uttanasana
C.L. White
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. C.L. White is a poet & journalist living in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Originally from Gold Hill, North Carolina, she holds a BA from UNC Chapel Hill… Continue reading Uttanasana
C.L. White
The Word Escape Has Escaped
s.g. maldonado-vélez
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. s.g. maldonado-vélez is a Puerto Rican poet who is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their chapbook no matter… Continue reading The Word Escape Has Escaped
s.g. maldonado-vélez
Archaic Forms of Being
s.g. maldonado-vélez
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. s.g. maldonado-vélez is a Puerto Rican poet who is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their chapbook no matter… Continue reading Archaic Forms of Being
s.g. maldonado-vélez
Ophelia as the One Watching You in the Bathtub, Submerged
s.g. maldonado-vélez
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. s.g. maldonado-vélez is a Puerto Rican poet who is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their chapbook no matter… Continue reading Ophelia as the One Watching You in the Bathtub, Submerged
s.g. maldonado-vélez
Detention Center
Marianna Ariel
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Marianna Ariel hunts for moments when poetry has surfaced as a force in collective bodies. She can be found in off hours jumping from rock… Continue reading Detention Center
Marianna Ariel
Visitation 9.25.19
Marianna Ariel
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Marianna Ariel hunts for moments when poetry has surfaced as a force in collective bodies. She can be found in off hours jumping from rock… Continue reading Visitation 9.25.19
Marianna Ariel
Gum Machine Loophole
Marianna Ariel
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Marianna Ariel hunts for moments when poetry has surfaced as a force in collective bodies. She can be found in off hours jumping from rock… Continue reading Gum Machine Loophole
Marianna Ariel
Illuminations
Gillian Jerome
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Gillian Jerome was born & raised in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Red Nest, which won the ReLit Award… Continue reading Illuminations
Gillian Jerome
Acoustic Showing
Gillian Jerome
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Gillian Jerome was born & raised in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Red Nest, which won the ReLit Award… Continue reading Acoustic Showing
Gillian Jerome
Practice
Gillian Jerome
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Gillian Jerome was born & raised in Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Red Nest, which won the ReLit Award… Continue reading Practice
Gillian Jerome
Scarred
Elizabeth Paulson
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Elizabeth Anne Mailo Paulson is a south end Seattle afakasi.… Continue reading Scarred
Elizabeth Paulson
Instructions for Baking Bread
Michael Demyan
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Michael Demyan is a poet, performer, & visual artist. Find… Continue reading Instructions for Baking Bread
Michael Demyan
The Children Are Buried
Anna Leigh Knowles
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Anna Leigh Knowles is from Littleton, Colorado, & received an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her work can be seen in Blackbird, Salt Hill (finalist… Continue reading The Children Are Buried
Anna Leigh Knowles
Print Issue #25 available! Order now & get a Hunger Mountain anthology as a digital download.
Issue #25—Art Saves—is available! Buy now to ship 3/12 and get an anthology of the first 25 issues as a digital download, featuring interviews with, & stories, essays, poems, artwork, & hybrid work by Grace Paley, Michael Martone, Eloisa Amezcua, Angela Paladino, tanner menard, Will Alexander, Robin Hemley, Goldie Goldbloom, Robin Black, Paul Tran, Patricia Smith… Continue reading Print Issue #25 available! Order now & get a Hunger Mountain anthology as a digital download.
Everything Will Be All Right
Emelda Gwitimah interviews Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter Ukamaka Olisakwe
Ukamaka Olisakwe takes us through her second novel, Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right, which is the type of story that slowly slides under your skin and stays there. Set in the backdrop of 1980s Nigeria, a time of political unrest, it centres on a teenage girl called Ogadinma who is banished from home… Continue reading Everything Will Be All Right
Emelda Gwitimah interviews Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter Ukamaka Olisakwe
Visiting the Columbine Memorial
Anna Leigh Knowles
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. Anna Leigh Knowles is from Littleton, Colorado, & received an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her work can be seen in Blackbird, Salt Hill (finalist… Continue reading Visiting the Columbine Memorial
Anna Leigh Knowles
Clap Your Hands
Nicholas Karavatos
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Nicholas Karavatos is a visiting lecturer in creative… Continue reading Clap Your Hands
Nicholas Karavatos
The Hard Science of Sci-Fi
by Dexter Loken
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] So you want to know how to write a believable sci-fi, eh? First: Know your shit. Dexter’s Dictionary defines this as “an understanding of the nuances surrounding the topic you wish to discuss.” This can be said about every aspect… Continue reading The Hard Science of Sci-Fi
by Dexter Loken
Announcing Pushcart Prize Nominations
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’30’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#a6ce39′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_textblock size=’17’ font_color=” color=” admin_preview_bg=”] We are so happy to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize: “Marked” by Kristiana Kahakauwila (essay) “On Joy” by Geffrey Davis (essay) “Sound in the Blood” by Natanya Ann Pulley (essay) “Untitled” by Alán… Continue reading Announcing Pushcart Prize Nominations
Marked
Kristiana Kahakauwila
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half][av_one_half]Kristiana Kahakauwila is a hapa writer of kanaka… Continue reading Marked
Kristiana Kahakauwila
Mixtape for the End of All Cuntry
Noor Ibn Najam
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Noor Ibn Najam is a poet &… Continue reading Mixtape for the End of All Cuntry
Noor Ibn Najam
Nonbinary || Ghazal
Noor Ibn Najam
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Noor Ibn Najam is a poet &… Continue reading Nonbinary || Ghazal
Noor Ibn Najam
Cityscape Zoomed All The Way In
Noor Ibn Najam
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Noor Ibn Najam is a poet &… Continue reading Cityscape Zoomed All The Way In
Noor Ibn Najam
Untitled
Alán Peláez López
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Alán Peláez López is an Afro-Indigenous… Continue reading Untitled
Alán Peláez López
Schizo Reads Fig. 1
Jake Bailey
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Jake Bailey is a schizotypal experientialist… Continue reading Schizo Reads Fig. 1
Jake Bailey
How to Shoot Grooms
Nick Almeida
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Nick Almeida’s fiction has appeared in Mid-American… Continue reading How to Shoot Grooms
Nick Almeida
Announcing Guest Judges for 2021 Contests
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’30’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#a6ce39′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_textblock size=’17’ font_color=” color=” admin_preview_bg=”] We are so happy to announce that the 2021 Guest Judges of Hunger Mountain’s literary prizes are all faculty & alumnx of Vermont College of Fine Arts’ low-residency MFA program in Writing: Trinie Dalton –… Continue reading Announcing Guest Judges for 2021 Contests
Primary Group
Jeremy Radin
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Jeremy Radin is a poet, actor,… Continue reading Primary Group
Jeremy Radin
Sound in the Blood
Natanya Ann Pulley
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half][av_one_half]Natanya Ann Pulley is a Diné writer &… Continue reading Sound in the Blood
Natanya Ann Pulley
A Review of A Common Name for Everything by Sarah Wolfson
by Bianca Viñas
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=‘100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] In her debut, poet Sarah Wolfson becomes both pastoral cryptographer and medium to the wonderfully odd. She is artist and guide, purposefully misplacing the familiar and mundane to a corner of altered earth where magic is once again possible and… Continue reading A Review of A Common Name for Everything by Sarah Wolfson
by Bianca Viñas
A Pessoa Guide to a Birthday
Sara Mang
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half][av_one_half]Sara Mang’s work has appeared or is… Continue reading A Pessoa Guide to a Birthday
Sara Mang
A History of Wrong Turns
Megan Merchant
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Megan Merchant lives in the tall pines… Continue reading A History of Wrong Turns
Megan Merchant
Announcing our Guest Editors for Issue #25
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’30’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#a6ce39′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_textblock size=’17’ font_color=” color=” admin_preview_bg=”] Issue #25 is themed Art Saves. Deadline is October 15th! Submit here. Art can save a life, a relationship, a nation, a Sunday afternoon, one’s sanity—& art can save a space: for joy, for understanding,… Continue reading Announcing our Guest Editors for Issue #25
2020 Contest Winners Are Here
We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2020 contests! The winners have all been published on our Prize Winners page. Thank you to everyone who entered, and everyone who read the many stunning entries we received. 2020 Contest Winners 2020 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize First Place Winner: Barbara Camron for “White… Continue reading 2020 Contest Winners Are Here
Tonight
Natalie Eleanor Patterson
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Natalie Eleanor Patterson is a half-Cuban femme… Continue reading Tonight
Natalie Eleanor Patterson
In the Moments Before Gunfire
Leslie Jill Patterson
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half][av_one_half]Leslie Jill Patterson’s prose has appeared in The… Continue reading In the Moments Before Gunfire
Leslie Jill Patterson
Pioneer Plaque
Isaac Espósto
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Isaac Espósto is a current MFA… Continue reading Pioneer Plaque
Isaac Espósto
For Those No Longer Coming
Isaac Espósto
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Isaac Espósto is a current MFA… Continue reading For Those No Longer Coming
Isaac Espósto
Why We Chose It: “Book of Leaves”
Philip Shackleton
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#e45656′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] The short story, “Book of Leaves,” by Jim Kourlas met two of my broad criteria for the fiction I read during the fall reading period: it said something important, and it said it in an original way. The story sits… Continue reading Why We Chose It: “Book of Leaves”
Philip Shackleton
The Cherry Tree
Julie Zigoris
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#339999′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Julie Zigoris holds a PhD in… Continue reading The Cherry Tree
Julie Zigoris
Watching a Cartel Snuff Film With My Brother
Aldo Amparán
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Aldo Amparán is a queer poet from… Continue reading Watching a Cartel Snuff Film With My Brother
Aldo Amparán
The Book of Leaves
Jim Kourlas
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Jim Kourlas holds an MFA in creative writing from Roosevelt University in Chicago. He lives in Omaha with his wife… Continue reading The Book of Leaves
Jim Kourlas
I’ve Never Been Inside a Greenhouse
Michael Mlekoday
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Michael Mlekoday is a Midwesterner, a… Continue reading I’ve Never Been Inside a Greenhouse
Michael Mlekoday
On Joy
Geffrey Davis
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first][/av_one_half][av_one_half]Geffrey Davis is the author of two poetry… Continue reading On Joy
Geffrey Davis
Portland, 1999
torrin a. greathouse
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half] torrin a. greathouse is… Continue reading Portland, 1999
torrin a. greathouse
Lithium
torrin a. greathouse
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half] torrin a. greathouse is a… Continue reading Lithium
torrin a. greathouse
With a Remainder
Natalie Serber
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#372a55′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half]Natalie Serber is the author of three books: SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME, , a New York Times Notable Book of 2012,… Continue reading With a Remainder
Natalie Serber
The Bridge
Jennifer Tseng
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half] Jennifer Tseng is an award-winning… Continue reading The Bridge
Jennifer Tseng
Love
Jennifer Tseng
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half] Jennifer Tseng is an award-winning… Continue reading Love
Jennifer Tseng
The Existence of the Cycle & Time’s Role in It
Jennifer Tseng
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half] Jennifer Tseng is an award-winning… Continue reading The Existence of the Cycle & Time’s Role in It
Jennifer Tseng
A Review of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, and an Interview with author Wayétu Moore
by Amara Nicole Okolo
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=‘100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] When I began reading The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, I had the expectations of a story about an author’s liberation from a country ravaged by war. But then I got something much better than that. The Dragons, the Giant,… Continue reading A Review of The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, and an Interview with author Wayétu Moore
by Amara Nicole Okolo
My Primer for Learning Hangeul
Anthony Huerta Velasquez
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#1f4e78′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Basic Vowels ㅏ, short \a\ sound, as in ahjussi, an older married Korean man. Arriving in South Korea, often one’s first contact is with an ahjussi from the cadre of taxi drivers at the airport. ㅓ, short \o\ sound,… Continue reading My Primer for Learning Hangeul
Anthony Huerta Velasquez
saguaro: trans forms
tanner menard
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] From Hunger Mountain Issue 24: Patterns, which you can purchase here. Designed by Marielena Andre. [av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_one_half first] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half] tanner menard is a… Continue reading saguaro: trans forms
tanner menard
White Box
Barbara Cameron
Winner, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] “My medication is mixing weird with my marijuana.” “Turn right at that billboard. GPS woman with British accent says in 500 feet turn right.” “Drive into it. I want in that billboard.” “I like the black stars.” “What are you… Continue reading White Box
Barbara Cameron
Winner, Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction
Reading in Northern Ireland
Nick Miller
Runner-Up, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Shane Dugan reads Irish whenever he can, although he is no good at it. Is fearr Gaeilge briste, ná Béarla clíste / Broken Irish is better than clever English. He read a lot of things, poetry and prose, truth and… Continue reading Reading in Northern Ireland
Nick Miller
Runner-Up, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
An Embarrassment of Riches
Wendy Fontaine
Winner, Creative Nonfiction Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] There is a moment when my car rounds the corner at our subdivision, when I glide past the cool blue community swimming pool and onto Mira Vista Street—a quiet cul de sac in southern California, with a name that means… Continue reading An Embarrassment of Riches
Wendy Fontaine
Winner, Creative Nonfiction Prize
In Love with the World
Suzanne Roberts
Runner-Up, Creative Nonfiction Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] When we got back to the apartment, I was still buzzing with the beat of Shakira, the novelty of dancing late into the night at a Spanish club. But David turned to me, and he said, “I saw how you… Continue reading In Love with the World
Suzanne Roberts
Runner-Up, Creative Nonfiction Prize
The Thing About Perfection
Don Colburn
Winner, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] in memory of Don Larsen (1929-2020) The thing about perfection is how nobody sees it coming except those destined for disappointment. A journeyman hurler, brush cut and big ears, whose teammates call him Gooney Bird, goes out-and-out untouchable one fall… Continue reading The Thing About Perfection
Don Colburn
Winner, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
The Bloom’s Beauty Is Insistence
Tobias Wray
Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] When I was thirteen, I had a friend named Carly who was obsessed with pills—she took supplements, like echinacea, obsessively, counting them out, holding them in her hand. She liked the way the light cascaded off their slippery backs, something… Continue reading The Bloom’s Beauty Is Insistence
Tobias Wray
Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize
Brief Candle
Jenna Wengler
Overall Winner, Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult Literature
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] Fair is foul, and foul is fair. —Shakespeare, Macbeth After school, Blanca takes me to the Sonic across the street for half-price happy-hour limeades to apologize for making me almost-late for the history final. I love their limeade—the fizz stinging my… Continue reading Brief Candle
Jenna Wengler
Overall Winner, Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult Literature
The Midnight Owl of Gumbucket Hill
Noah Weisz
First-Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Middle Grade Fiction
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] “Gumbucket!” the conductor called. Caleb jolted awake. He’d been leaning against the window of the train car, dreaming of a milky-eyed old man beckoning to him with a toothless smile and a paintbrush. Grandpa had better not be anything like… Continue reading The Midnight Owl of Gumbucket Hill
Noah Weisz
First-Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Middle Grade Fiction
We CAN’T Go Outside!
Sean McCollum
First-Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Picture Book
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] For Chuck— who ALWAYS goes outside! SPRING Tippy-tap. Tappy-tip. Drip! Drop! Drap!That’s the sound the rain made on the roof. Raz sat at the window watching waves of water falling from the dreary sky. A soggy salamander crawled out… Continue reading We CAN’T Go Outside!
Sean McCollum
First-Place, Katherine Paterson Prize, Picture Book
Melody for Light
Katherine Vandermel
Overall Winner, International Young Writers Prize
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] After Bruce Weigl “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” — Anne Frank Or: the white cottage next door, the one with the boy. The blossom of the first bomb one… Continue reading Melody for Light
Katherine Vandermel
Overall Winner, International Young Writers Prize
dear franny choi
Esther Kim
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] in the first grade i remember hanging my head low when my umma introduced herself as yoojin. i remember feeling so grateful that my name was not korean, for i had shed that name in skins. i’d already… Continue reading dear franny choi
Esther Kim
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
to hell with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl:
my love letter to Susan Vance
Sylvia Nicholas-Patterson
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#8f2f66′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] In your local 7-Eleven, follow the unearthly scent of cologne. He’ll be sitting in a freezer box, venting to the frozen dinners about how he resembles “dope with venom entailed.” Proceed with caution. At first, he won’t look… Continue reading to hell with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl:
my love letter to Susan Vance
Sylvia Nicholas-Patterson
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
Zodiac Year of the Lamb
Grace Wang
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
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Grace Wang
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
July, 1913
Annie Cao
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
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Annie Cao
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
I Want a Brand-New Precedent:
Elizabeth Shorkey
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
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Elizabeth Shorkey
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Poetry
Abiogenesis
Katherine Wong
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Fiction
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Katherine Wong
Honorable Mention, International Young Writers Prize, Fiction