COVER ART BY MONICA MCFAWN
Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize
Philip Schaefer: Chicken Fever
Carson Lee: Carapace
Threa Almontaser: Hidden Bombs In My Coochie
Ray Ventre Memorial Nonfiction Prize
Daniel Sherrell: Hunters in the Snow
Cassie Mannes Murray: A Fixed Luminous Point
Shorts Shorts
Jacqui Reiko Teruya: On a Fault Line
Claire Christoff: Superstar
Genevieve Arlie: Waste Not, Want / Call Her by Her Name
Matthew Vollmer: Out of the Blue
Adam Gnuse: Field Dressing
D. Gilson: Treasure Hunt
Sheree Winslow: Postcards from My Future Self
Claire Robbins: How to Paint the Floor / It is Finished
Emily Flouton: A Day in the Life of Aesop’s Woman
James Tadd Adcox: An Essay on Moustaches
Kat Moore: Suppose We could Turn Back the Years
Allison Pinkerton: How to Take a Jesus Selfie at Bible World: Tips for My Atheist Daughter
Dina L. Relles: Eulogy
Remy Reed Pincumbe: Cassini
Rebecca Orchard: Nitrous Oxide / Gallery Girls of the Midwest Get Hung Up
Joe Kapitan: Three Invisible Cities of the Midwest
Claire Fallon: Surface
Charlotte McCall Pattison: Pearls
Fiction
JP Vallières: Legs and Ravens
Elsa Nekola: Sustainable Living
Samuel Rafael Barber: A Guide for Boys (Ages 6+)
Jerilynn Aquino: A Request
Jen Craig: The Beautiful Sister
Steve Brooks: The Line
J.T. Bushnell: Miracles from Hell
Timea Balogh: The Stone Men
Poetry
Michael Hurley: Arrival
Raymond Luczak: Lions: in ASL gloss and English
Brianna Albers: Something About
Simon Shieh: Kindness Comes Too Easily to Wicked Men
E. Kristin Anderson: In Which I Am Mother and Father and Daughter and Murder (after The X-Files)
Connor Yeck: Watching the Monster Movie that Begins with B-Reel of Tests at Bikini Atoll
Megan Denton Ray: Sex on Easter Morning / A Moonstone for Luella Rose
Satya Dash: The Insomniac’s Summertime Thirst
Jess Williard: Collateral
M.A. Cowgill: Psyche
Tarik Dobbs: The Melting Pot / Dancing on the Tarmac
Raye Hendrix: Mercy
Beth Gordon: Elegy with Flying Tires
Katherine Fallon: Borreliosis
Nazifa Islam: Presence / Born Falling
Emily Franklin: The Passover Table
Kirk Schlueter: How to Walk on Wind
Steven Duong: Lil Uzi Vert is Your Alarm Clock / Untogether
Kevin Latimer: &as a [blk] boy touches his pearly gates
Nonfiction/Hybrid
Jessica Lind Peterson: The Little Girl, Her Drunk Bastard Parents, and the Hummingbird
Scott Broker: Quotations in Exile
Amy Wright: The Appalachian Sublime
Rebecca Hazelwood: A Lexicon of Decay
Jenny Tinghui Zhang: The Only One
Arra L. Ross: Of the Spiraled Flower
Jacqueline Doyle: Madeline’s Trunk
Meghan McClure and Jill Talbot: No Return Address
Erica N. Cardwell: Blackout