39 Planets (with Large Black Hand) by Chris Pekoc

Editor's Letter  |  Laura Maylene Walter

Poetry

Scrapbook  |  Donna Hunt
Self-Portrait as Eurydice   |  Jenelle Clausen
Mob Justice  |  Bethany Brengan
Internment  |  Jen Karetnick
You Do Not Have Heaven in the Attic  |  Paula Persoleo
Before She Stopped Living  |  William Soldan
Almost Night  |  Bill Lythgoe
Memory  |  Mary Weems

PROSE

​16 on College Weekends  |  Kristine Langley Mahler
Oxalis  |  Christen Kauffman
Beasts Headed Home from the Party  |  Hannah Lackoff
Sparks  |  Joe Kapitan
Connect the Dots  |  Phyllis Levine

MENTORSHIPS

Dis-Locations  |  Carol Pang (nonfiction)
Despite  |  Nan Wigington (fiction)
Today  |  Stephanie Choi (poetry)

CONTEST WINNERS

The Difference Between Me and Paige Pendleton  |  Shannon Ready (fiction)
On the Anniversary of the Kent State Shootings  | 
​Mimi Plevin-Foust (poetry)

​Poetry finalists: “Mantle” by Bronte Billings, “Stalking” by Diane Ferri, and “With Cherokee Blood” by Brandon North.
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Prose finalists: “Rifle,” by Scott Burr, “Porcelain” by Bridgid Cassin, and “Appendix A” by John Filkorn.

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