Many thanks to all those who gave their time, energy, and talents to issue 6: Chris Duggan for his striking photography, Christopher Mead for his meticulous work on our book's layout and design, the exceptional editorial staff, and our dedicated editorial assistants.
Editor:
Beth Mead
Assistant Editor:
Kelli Allen
Managing Editor:
Jacqueline McGarry
Journal Design and Layout:
Christopher Mead
Cover & Interior Photographs:
Chris Duggan
Editorial Assistants
Amanda D. Gaines Amber C. Robinson Andi Dobek Brandilyn Haynes Brian Stephens Christine Ford Corinne Anderson D. K. White-Atkinson D.C. Hittle Dale John Arnold DeAnna Acker Edward Yoho Elizabeth A. Davidson Erin N. Courtney Heather Paul J. Bradley Jason Reimund Jean Hartley Sidden Jeni Lozauskas Jess Ptak Jessica J. Rogers Joanne Eskreis Joseph E. Klimek Katherine Chapa Martinez Katherine McCormick |
Katie Beck-Lee Katina Virgil Willis Laura Widener Linda Elfers-Mabli Lynette Van Hise Lynn Yvonne Moon Maggy Bosneag Marinda K. Romesser Megan Peters Nicole Thom-Arens Paul Graham Peter H. Elliott Richard Manly Heiman Richard Steinlechner Sarah C. Haasl Sarah Jane Hodge Staci Mercado Susan Sinclair Edele Terriane J. Ward Ti Sumner Travis Aldridge Trenton Mabey Troy Casa W. D. County William L. Sargent Zachary Alley |
Prose Poetry
Winner, Prose Poetry Contest:
Jennifer Martelli — The Devil Tides*
Honorable Mentions, Prose Poetry Contest:
John McCarthy — Study of Disbelief*
Allison Goldston — Guest Room*
Emma Bolden — When No Mother Was Looking
Elaine Mintzer — No Vacancy
Douglas W. Milliken — Pretty
Michael Colonnese Nuthatch
Damien Cowger — People Just Talk
Colleen McKee — How Long Had She Lived in This Cave?
Emily Hockaday — Comfort
Marybeth Rua-Larsen — Stillborn
Chris Warner — Daylight
Monica Wendel — Still Waters
Monica Wendel — Knickerboker Ave, July
Ann Tweedy — A Pocket of Words
Nadia Chaney — Chalcedony
Anne Dyer Stuart — Ode to the Girl in the Red Cowboy Boots
Sarah Halper — Sucker
Tatiana Dolgushina — Alaska
Tatiana Dolgushina — Siberia, Russia
*available online
Fiction
D. E. Lee — Woodwork
Joe Dornich — Why We Do This
Karen Burton — Dandelions
Poetry
John Davis — When I am away from the water and you*
Sandy Coomer — Pentimento*
Karen Maceira — My Mother Cleans and Starts the Gumbo*
Lauren Bender — Cologne
Kate Peper — When I Think Happiness,
Megan Duffy — Nearing Solstice
Sara Moore Wagner — Still Life
Joseph Mills — Enter Gardeners
Nicole Yurcaba — Contemplations of a Colonel’s Remembrances of a Ukrainian Girl*
C.M. Clark — Starting in Xi’an
C. Wade Bentley — What You Will Miss When You’re Dead
Christopher T. Keaveney — I Stand Corrected
Lori Lamothe — The Rain
Michael Constantine McConnell — Black Thumbs
Elizabeth Carothers Herron — Fawn on Bodega Highway
Robert Nazarene — Tonight, Someone is Thrashing Her Wings Against a Gilded Cage, Thrashing Her Wings Against a Starry Somewhere
Sharon Scholl — Old Brain
George E. Eklund — Water Body
M. Ann Hull — How, Years Later, He’ll Take You Away
*available online
Essays
Cynthia A. Roby — The Purple Ball
Mary I. Caldwell — Weighing the Math
Suzie Vander Vorste — What Remains