Sinking Slow by Amy  Casey

Editor's Letter  |  Laura Maylene Walter

Poetry

Portrait of Self as Running Water  |  Brett Cortelletti
At the African American Debutante Ball
       in Youngstown  |  Dom Fonce
Seeking Greener Pastures in Symptoms
       that Fevers Me  |  Nnadi Samuel
in the garden  |  Sunita Theiss
What I Mean When I Say I Want More  |  Sara Moore Wagner
No More Fables on the Third Date  |  Sean Cho A.
Dinner table for the endangered species  |  ​Isabella Barricklow

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Prose

Loose Threads  |  Molly Gabriel
Thirty  |  Amy Stuber
Before You Leap  |  Brian Moore
How We Coped with the Giant Robots  |  Anna Cabe
The Apocalypse in Stages or Your First Kiss  |  Miranda Williams
The Machine Room  |  Nathan Willis

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Mentorships

Passing a Heifer on the Highway  |  ​Anna Girgenti (poetry)
Conversations at the End of the World  |  Jena Vallina (fiction)
Eid Mubarak  |  Yasmine Rukia (fiction)

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Poetry Contest Winners

but the wind blew me back via Warren, Ohio in the dead of night | Matt Mitchell  (Winner)
For the girl who wishes she could be less different​  | Nardine Taleb  (Runner Up) 

​Finalists: “Cleveland” by Tiara Dinevska-McGuire; “Poem Which Runs Away with Itself” by Lucas Jorgensen; “The Crow” by Brittany McCauley; and “Autopsy Autopsy” by Michelle Skupski Bissell

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Youth Outlet
Lake Erie Ink

Scenes from Forest Hill Park  |  Adele Metres
Under the Skin  |  Jessica Chang
The Fundamental Elements of Leaving  |  Emily Stanciu

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