COVER PHOTOGRAPHY
Scott Holstein, St. Marks Foggy Palms
THE 2023 RASH AWARD IN FICTION
Maureen Sherbondy, Rules of the Rich
THE 2023 RASH AWARD IN POETRY
Marina Hope Wilson, Origin
THE 2023 J. CALVIN KOONTS POETRY AWARD
LaNora Paige McIntyre, Winter Shopping
THE 2023 FOOTHILLS WRITING AWARD
Varleine Coq, Woes of a Lost Jersey Girl
POETRY
Ida Marie Beck, Matins
Lawrence Ernest Bridges, Watching TV
Anne Bucey, Canebrake
Alexandra Burack, The Eighth Child
Charles Byrne, Photosensitivity
Jeremy Caldwell, Looking Past the Future
Sharon Charde, Love Me Do
Leonardo Chung, The Last Time I Set Foot in a Café
J. Mark Cooney, Body-Shop Icon
Caleb Coy, Blind Woman
Max Roland Ekstrom, The Vibrating Pines
Daniel Ginsburg, The Carpet
Daniel Gleason, Tagged
Carol Hamilton, Legends
Karen Luke Jackson, Plumbed
Carol Parris Krauss, Those Just Beyond the Backyard
Gary Lark, Gifts
Al Maginnes, Inevitable
Terri McCord, Sun Surround
Megan Mary Moore, For Evelyn McHale
Ryan Nelson, Aged Spirit
Scott Thomas Outlar, The Good Old Days
Lauro Palomba, Second Nature
Maria Palumbo, Frames
Daye Phillippo, Flock
Christy Prahl, An Insect Gives a Lesson on Darwinism
David B. Prather, Death of the Drive-In
Elisabeth Preston-Hsu, He Who Wanted to Taste Gibraltar
Annie Przypyszny, Opening Up
Xiaoqiu Qiu, Woman on a High Stool, Matisse, Las Vegas
Kelly Sargent, Seed Fruit
L.B. Sedlacek, Soda Shoppe Blues
Danielle Sellers, Letter to Myself, Age Six
Cassidy Shao, Seventh Grade Science
Matthew J. Spireng, For a Friend Hospitalized After a Fall from His Roof
David Starkey, Final Car Ride to the Vet
Max Stephan, A Requiem for Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’
Jo Barbara Taylor, Wednesday Concert
Lucinda Trew, Remainderman
Allen Tullos, Silver Queen
Pamela Wax, England Has a Ministry of Loneliness Now
Bob Wickless, Reading Poetry on a Stage Where Chet Baker Once Played
Christy Wise, Goodwill
Diana Woodcock, The Peace of Detachment
Janice Zerfas, Albino Deer
FICTION
Gilbert Allen, God’s Second Chance
Nancy Brock, Porch Rocker
Timothy Dodd, Prism
Mindy Friddle, Weather Girl
S.G. Fromm, Mondi’s Malocchio
Billy Gee, Peanut Butter Balls and the Unanswered Letter
Laila Hartman-Sigall, Together We Hated Oureslves and Waited to Be Helped
Marianne Leek, Resurrecting Harleigh
Ray Morrison, Empty Sky
Barry Peters, JohnnyMac!
David E. Poston, A Valediction
Eric Rasmussen, Ms. Breyer’s Last Four Days
Alex Rost, Uncle Bill’s Mule
Maureen Sherbondy, The Mystery Shopper
Larry D. Thacker, A Good View
L. Vocem, Deportation Papers
CREATIVE FICTION
Brent House, The Heartwood Triptych
Jill Jepson, Subjunctive Mood
Michael Schoeffel, Coffee Shop
Martha Graham Wiseman, Feed Me