Fall 2022

Photo of a woman with seven arms holds a cell phone to her face. She is lying on her back in a bright field of orange, red, and blue flowers while wearing a white summer dress with light and dark spots. — Fiction Contest winner

The Parable of Eleanor Perkins and Her Limp by Joe Johnson
Chosen by Judge James Tate Hill

A small wooden table with debris on it stands alone on bare ground in a crumbling brick building. Some sunlight is entering the space from an opening above. — Poetry Contest Winner

God has nothing by Shannan Mann
Chosen by Judge Erin Elizabeth Smith

A highlighted curvy, cream colored, faceless human form is hybridized with shapes and tentacle-like projections. The figure is surrounded by free-floating pink, green, and teal colored shapes. — Flash

Featuring work by Cathy Ulrich, Mandira Pattnaik, Kimberly Ramos, Devaki Devay, John MacNeill Miller, and Cathy McArthur Palermo

A blindfolded girl in a ballerina outfit dances alone outside in soft light. Her arms are out and in one hand she holds a toy airplane and guides it in flight. — Fiction

Featuring work by Amanda Irene Rush, Montana Bass, Lauren Cassani Davis, James Morena, and Reshmi Hebbar

A young woman in an emerald green cap and cape looks up and to the left with a tired facial expression. — Poetry

Featuring work by Eric Wittkopf, Katherine Gaffney, Natalie Marino, Evan J. Massey, CJ Scruton, Julia Neumann, and Josie Levin

Painting of a condor flying past canyon-like, vertical orange columns. The bird's wings are outstretched and it is flying to the right. — Nonfiction

Featuring work by John Jacobson and David James

Fiction Runners-Up

C Kubasta, Ricky Perez, Amanda Irene Rush, & Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo

Poetry Runners-Up

Julia Neumann, S. Salazar, Eric Wittkhopf, & Nikki Ummel

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“Dreaming” by Emerson Little

Emerson Little is a practicing visual artist working in a variety of media, including photography, graphic design, and film. His photographs have recently appeared in Northwest Review, Montana Mouthful, Wild Roof Journal, and Burningword Literary Journal. Emerson received his BA in Digital Media Production from Whittier College, and is currently working toward his MFA in Creative Photography & Experimental Media at California State University, Fullerton.