"The Gully (My Former Baseball Diamond)" by Alyssa Lizzini
Alyssa Lizzini is an artist from Cleveland, Ohio whose work explores memory and the passage of time as it relates to our sense of place. Lizzini's layered images are inspired by her own archival, ethnographic, and visual research of city spaces, in addition to recollections of personal histories and narratives. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2022. Her work can be found at alyssalizzini.com and @alyssalizzini on Instagram.
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ISSUE 16MIDWEST WRITERS FLASH CONTESTWinner | Outdoor Museums of Assemblage Art | Jodi Cressman
Runner-up | Marvelous Memories | Whitney Weisenberg POETRYMoth Ghazal | Emily Patterson
Men from the Commons | Noah Christopher Army Specialist Nicholas E. Zimmer Memorial Highway | Hugh Martin Out on the bar's patio, we learn that the body of another gay man was found in Brooklyn | Daniel Brennan Gravity Heat | Kate Michaelson All My Life the God of the Mountain has been Wooing Me | Devan Murphy FICTIONBruja Business | Roxanne Ocasio
A Sudden Hail of Gunfire, a Wedding and a Dance | K Russell Breakstone At the Base of Ausangate | Maggie Hart Keep Stirring | Bethany O'Brien CREATIVE NON-FICTIONSwimming to Mouse Island | Mary Grimm
Steel Mill Stacks | Jacqueline Owen Plump Glass Birds | Amanda Bramley When I consider having children I think about frogs | Annastacia Stegall MENTORSHIPSThe Diagnosis | Hania Qutub (creative non-fiction)
We Will Not Leave Each Other, Never So Long as We Live | Abigail Carlson (fiction) Postpartum Depression | Cam McGlynn (poetry) VOLUNTEER READERSPoetry | Sarah Daye and Mercy Turle
Fiction | Grace Harper and Zoe Dudack Creative Non-fiction | Hayley Lalchand Midwest Contest | Ryan Lejarde |
