Creative Nonfiction
First Place Winner
Creative Nonfiction Prize
Tag: love
Animals Saved Me
Two Poems
Chard deNiord
In steps at your command/down the plank of a tall
fast ship with the salt/of sex across its lips.
Tilt-A-Whirl
by Rachel Furey
Overall First Place, Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Literature
It’s just you in the Tilt-A-Whirl cart until Jimmy Miller slips in beside you. He reeks of cigarette smoke, and you want to grind an elbow into his stomach and tell him to find another cart.
Letter to my Son Jacob on his 5th Birthday
Mimi Lemay
Your dad often recounts the moment he held you first. Your hearty, solid body, your pumping fists and legs and the surprised thought, “This one is a different model”…