CONTENTS: “Most Nights” – Suzannah Showler , “Pretext” – Moni Brar, “What Are the Ethics of Picking a Stinging Plant?” – Delani Valin, “Ganga” – Sarmista Das, “How You’ll Feel After the War” – Shaelin Bishop, “Black Dog Days” – Brent Taylor, “Mycelium” – Véronique Darwin, “Pandemia” – Morgan Cross, “Rainbringer” – Wendy Elizabeth Wallace, […]
CONTENTS judge’s essay “Who Said Curiosity Killed the Cat? Or, stories that take us.” by Téa Mutonji fiction “Lady” by Zilla Jones “Ada and Jezz” by Cara Marks “Slide” by Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick “Street Signs” by Joelle Kidd “Ugly” by Amorina Kingdon “The Coca-Cola Baby” by Jessica Bloom poetry “actually babylon of the whore” by […]
CONTENTS judge’s essay Ariana Brown “What Does the Poem Ask of Me?” s c a b Tanvi Bhatia & Emily Chou “Letter from the Editors” fiction Emily Johnson “Good Friends” Jessi Lewis “Simmer” Corinna Chong “the snare. the arm. the guinea pig. the bottle. the bus. the night.” non–fiction Felix Wong “Shall We Talk” R. […]
Caragana Ennis's "A Bird-Shaped Hole in History," Fríða Ísberg's "Profile" translated by Larissa Kyzer, Eliamani Ismail's "Ohio, Angelique Stevens's "Ghost Bread," Stacey May Fowles's "Like a Branch From a Tree in a Storm," Joshua Whitehead's "Me, the Joshua Tree," [...]
judge Kristen Arnett's essay "Reimagining Place," Kate Finegan's "Bears and Other Beasts," Joseph Pearson's "An Iconostasis," Susie Taylor's "Vigil," Paulette Jonguitud's "Running to Stand Still," Laura Clarke's "Pothos," Alisha Dukelow's "The Jellyfish," Dominik Parisien's "Open letter to an unknown sibling," Rhiannon [...]
judge’s essay “So Many Individual Units of Love and Meaning, or Judging Poetry Contests is F*cking Hard,” Katherena Vermette maps “Lady with the big head chronicle,” Angélique Lalonde “I Could Almost Mistake this Gold Peninsula for Gospel,” Amy M. Alvarez “Lancashire North West England” and “Six Months in Preston,” Caroline McDonald “rubber,” Cassandra Blanchard “back […]
judge’s essay “Memory,” Sharan Dhaliwal fiction “The Year of the Monster,” Tara Stillions Whitehead “Plastic,” Christine Ottoni “Which of the Following,” Randy Magnuson non-fiction “Dead Languages Or The What,” Jonathan Wei “Half Scissor,” Tabitha Siklos “And Begin,” Rachel Lindley-Maycock poetry “Aubade after Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore’s Le Mystère d’Adam,” Cassandra J. Bruner “Easy Metaphor,” […]
corporeal “Antiquing in Vermont,” Anne Stone + Wayde Compton “What Is a Body If Not,” John Elizabeth Stintzi “The Patron Saint of Butchers is also the Patron Saint of Surgeons and Abortions,” Dessa Bayrock “Small Talk,” Nicole Melanson “Late Nights,” Hannah Green numeral “The Moment,” Stefani Nellen “The Fourth Region of a Venn Diagram is […]
the pacific spirit poetry prize judge’s essay Billy-Ray Belcourt – The Not-Yet and
the What-Is-To-Come the pacific spirit poetry prize grand prize winner Moira J. – CROSS-SECTIONS OF SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS & SHELLS, 2013 the pacific spirit poetry prize runners-up Tara McGowan-Ross – a simple instruction Samantha Nock- pahpowin RUIN Steven Heighton – […]
CREATIVE NON-FICTION CONTEST JUDGE’S ESSAY Voice – Jonathan Kemp NON-FICTION GRAND PRIZE WINNER How to Dig a Ditch – Antonia Crane NON-FICTION RUNNERS-UP It Wasn’t Weakness – Emily Casali Feral – Kat Savino FICTION Movin’ It – Chee Brossy Field Notes on Grief – Sarah Kabamba Homecoming – Christina Cooke NON-FICTION Reflections – Zoe Power […]
CONTENTS: DREAMS Dreamscapes – Keneilwe Mokoena Letter from the Editors Jessica Johns & Jasmine Sealy RISE Wake – Michelle Poirier Brown stretchmarks // sundogs – Dallas Hunt Black Girl Dreams – Elizabeth Mitchell Crystal – Sara Tilley the raven returned
- jaye simpson A Bad Dream Bent Ends Wet- MA|DE Birdhouse – Gregory Brown dear friend […]
Featuring Jacob Zilber Prize Winners. Please click on the issue to see full table of contents.
Featuring the winners of the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize 2018.
