contest folio
“Redaction (an excerpt from RE████)” by David Joez Villaverde
“beginning, beginning, end” by Jody Chan
“Confessional” by DeeSoul Carson
fiction
“Concrete Work” by Noémi Scheiring-Oláh
“Mother to Mother” by Rashmitha Muniandi
“Stylite” by Jennifer Galvão
nonfiction
“Hortus Conclusus” by Celia Cummiskey
“How to say ‘Survival’ in Latin” by Sana Wazwaz
“Exodus” by Tolu Daniel
“Hot, Fresh, and Served to Order” by Lars Chinburg
poetry
“Orchid Mantis” by Alissa M. Barr
“Examination of Faith” by Isaac Salazar
“Overture” by Malik Thompson
“Catch Up” by Holly Zhou
“The Glass Slipper Speaks” and “after the divorce, i find a door & i close it” by Michael Boccardo
“At the Corpse of Polynices,” “Even One of the Evils of Oedipus,” and “Anti-Birth” by Sean Reynolds
“learning conjugation” by Paul S Ukrainets
“40Zr :: They Mostly Corrode at Night {Mostly}” and “64Gd :: there aRe {GOBLINS} iN my— coNtRasT” by Rosebud Ben-Oni
“Physics, Lapsing” by Christine Barkley
“on bended knee,” “fragments from the second service,” and “when the climate crisis comes” by Sydney Mayes
“Threnody Humming During Dinnertime” by Jordan E. Franklin
“Elegy” by Ben Kline
“Parable of the Haunted Doll” by Aldo Amparán
“BRACERO WITH A TATTOO OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER,” “I WAS ONLY A BOY,” and “ANÓNIMO by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
“EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED” by Justin Rigamonti
“TELL ME I'D LOOK PRETTY PINNED ON YOUR WALL” and “BOY AS PICKAXE SPARKING AGAINST ROCK STRIATION” by Sébastien Luc Butler
“LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE” by Xinyue Huang
translation
“Listen” by Gemma Gorga (trans. Sharon Dolin)
“Tepoztlán” by Jorge Ríos (trans. Ivy Raff)
“Anecdote of the Camphor Tree” by Chen Xianfa (trans. Li Hai)
“Signal Fire” by Al-Buḥturī (trans. Will Pewitt)
art
Roses Afield, Clásico, True Blue, and Confetti by Hector Viramontes
Sitting With My Feelings and Sesh by Adam Zanzucchi