CURRENT ISSUE

Peel back the layers by Antwoine Washington

Editor's Letter  |  Laura Maylene Walter

Poetry

Superior and Decker  |  Dionne Custer Edwards
Kelsey,  |  Matt Kilbane
I Talk to Earthworms about Our Dreams  |  Eliana Rose Swerdlow
Eve's Vagina  |  Joanna Cleary
Initiation  |  Christine Stephens-Krieger 
The Lemon Rind the Mower Missed  |  Patrick Culliton

Prose

Eagle Pass, Texas  |  Angelica Esquivel
The Shape of a Heart  |  Melissa Ballard 
Blueberry Hill  |  Hannah Christopher 
Being the Murdered Mermaid  |  Cathy Ulrich
Vidalia  |  Maddie De Pree

Mentorships

Inadequacy  |  Annie Cigic (poetry)
Dividing by Percentages  |  Brandon Noel (nonfiction)
Reflections  |  Charlotte L. Oakeby (fiction)

Poetry Contest Winners

meteorology is the science of remembering the sky stays relatively the same  |  Inam Kang (Winner)
Mental Coordinates | Emily Troia (Runner-Up) 

​Finalists: "Current Mood" by Elizabeth Onusko and 
​"Der Tagesteller" by Callan Latham

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