2025 Issue

Max St-Jacques, MTA Underground Brooklyn NYC

Table of Contents

Creative Nonfiction

Lydia Alexandra, “Stick Figures Gone Rogue“

Brooke Martin, “A Love Letter to Peanut Butter“

Kevin Robles, “Robberies in Mother’s Home, Robbery in Mine“

Nicole Stander, “Twins in Retrograde“*

Sarah Isabelle Tamagny, “Baby Olivia“

Fiction

Andy Choi, “Swimmers“

Hunter Golder, “Bleach, Lye, Bleach“

Tanyon Griffith, “Frozen Agony“

Nathaniel Kenny, “Kaleidoscope“*

Chase Reed, “Grand Theft Ashes“

Oliver Reimers, “Talitha Cumi”*

Arnaldur Stefansson, “Grace Period“

Sophie van Zanten, “Tunnel Vision“

Poetry

Alexis Barton, “How Baskets Let Go“

Georgia Coomer, “Mirror“

Brynn Fields, “Pillowcase“*

Hannah Greer, “I Saw a Deer“

Vivian Hall, “In God’s Bell Tower“

Haley Hand, “Orange Peels“

Tianna Jacquez, “Abandoned Building“

Haley King, “A Different Medium“

Jessalin Lee, “Sharp Swords“

Jessalin Lee, “Take Me Back to That Marine Haven“

Haylee Morman, “Colors“

Bernad Okechukwu, “The cities and her people, and the war within“

Jordan Perkins, “Identical“

Dylan Phillips, “Mollie Maggia“

Amanda Venclovaite Pirani, “Berlin, New Hampshire, is home to the state’s largest Federal Correctional Institution“

Clarissa Pulotu, “Better Make Sure You Win“

M Quinn, “What?“

Michael Roque, “Under Painted Grace“

Hasan Zubair, “Dear Life“

Art

Caleb Galvan, Landscape

Samuel Helmbreck, Business as Usual

Samuel Helmbreck, We Are at the End

Hala Jaber, Our Moon

Max St-Jacques, MTA Underground Brooklyn NYC

Amber Neuspickle, Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Donald Patten, Red Mushroom

Maija Wehr, Conjoined

Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Contest
for Michigan High School Students

Iliana Demas, “Gravel Sonnet“
1st place

Sofie Delidow, “I’m Achilles and The Duplex is Hector’s Body“
2nd place (tie)

Bella Rotker, “Variation on a love poem written by Ilya Kaminsky“
2nd place (tie)

Ada Gong, “High-Speed Train“
3rd place (tie)

Rhegan Stallworth, “The Hanging Fruit Pantoum“
3rd place (tie)