Issue 9 of The Lindenwood Review features "Don't Make Eye Contact" by Elizabeth Parker Garcia, the winner of our Flash Nonfiction Contest.
Editor: Beth Mead
Poetry Editor: Gillian Parrish
Editorial Assistants: Mark Ali, Marcus Armani, Emma Atkinson, Amy Beerwinkle, Mezdulene Bliss, Jack Campbell Jr., Ashley N. Canales, Valerie Cowie, Thelma Curry, Rhonda E. Estabrook, Chrissy Frederiksen, Bob Gidcumb, Tanika Gilliam, Danielle Guerrero, Halie B. Hale, Molly E. Hamilton, Harley Hamlett, Nancy Colbert Hardy, E. H. Holden, Jimmy Huff, E.L.M Hunter, Christy Jones, Carly Mastroni, Christopher Mead, Allan Metz, Joe Miller, Tony M. O'Brien, Nicole Overton, Diane M. Parker, Joseph Patrick Pascale, Alice Anna Reese, Laura Reilly, Brenda Rivas, Nicole Scott, Savannah Slone, Amanda Staely, Susan Wells Stuart, Andrea Taylor, Jeni Venker Weidenbenner
Cover & Interior Artwork: Connor Mead & Casey Mead
Journal Design & Layout: Christopher Mead
Flash Nonfiction Contest Quotes
FLASH NONFICTION
Elizabeth Parker Garcia - Don't Make Eye Contact - Winner, Flash Nonfiction Contest
Amanda Hadlock - Something Sharp and Cold - Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest
Carolyn Oliver - Cary/Carrie - Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest
Sarah Broussard Weaver - Garage Sale - Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest
Tamzin Mitchell - Pommel and Glitter - Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest
Amanda Bramley - Indigo - Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest
Lauren Fath - Seven Letters for a Stranger - Honorable Mention, Flash Nonfiction Contest
FICTION
Logan Jorgenson - Like Snow in the Wind
Rebecca Pyle - Jar Of Honey
S. Frederic Liss - Twilight's Last Gleaming
Jamiece Adams - Blood and Belonging
Anastasia Jill - Nuclear Winter
ESSAYS
Dave Gregory - Gasoline
Catherine Ellington - A Lifeline
Anita Levin - Our Wasting Youth
Leah Kuenzi - My Mother and Other Doctors
Theo Greenblatt - Infrastructure
POETRY
Taylor Napolsky - the thing about death
Gloria Keeley - Down The Long Night
Ella Flores - Ruminant
Lukas Ray Hall - To my father's lungs
Rebecca Macijeski - Because the World is a Greedy Thing that Grows and Grows
Caroline Collins - River People
Jeffrey Alfier - Mojave Labor Day
Aidan Coleman - Four Poems
Charles Springer - Work Force
Amanda Mueller - The Gall of Euderus Set
Danny P. Barbare - The Broom
Ana Merino (translated by Toshiya Kamei) - Rock Paper Scissors
Eli Binkovitz - Shutz Juden
Jo-Anne Cappeluti - I remember after
Isabel Brome Gaddis - A Legacy of Lo-o-ove / Because Nobody Gets a Restraining Order Against a Cat
Janice Majewski - City & You
Rebecca Carlson - little fires / bones
Michelle Brooks - I Didn't Mean to Scare You