Subhaga Crystal Bacon | POETRY | "10:00:  ----------------------- Invocation ------- / Altar / Intention / 10:40: Ingest ------ / Walk..."

Liz Kerin | NONFICTION | "Hey there, c’mon in. / My name is Bailey, and I’ve been so looking forward to our appointment today. I’m glad you took time out of your incredibly busy, stressful day to unwind with me and let me give your beautiful hair the attention it deserves..."

"With the cool precision of Joan Didion and the smoky lyricism of Renata Adler, Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought (Diagram Press, 2023) is a scintillating collection of production diaries, script marginalia, and short auto-fictions that probe motherhood, filmmaking, and ways of seeing with ardent acumen. What does it mean, On Second Thought asks, to understand a narrative? To figure out the innate connection between two seemingly disparate ideas or things?"

Sarah Minor | VIDEO ESSAY

Sarah Mangold | POETRY | "Spirit Psychic Living | Dead..."

Michelle Phương Hồ | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "To be recognized in this country, I became a defendant. I was handed an orange bucket..."

"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."

"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."

"It’s winter-spring. A blue, sunny chill. Sleep and hyacinth. Today I met with a friend with whom I have an ongoing creative..."

"The space between waking and dreaming presents a brief opening of possibility and is the same space we enter and move through in..."

"I first read Lara Mimosa Montes' THRESHOLES while the forest around me burned. Obscured by fire and smoke, I imagined the landscape..."

"parses the language and acts of love and sex, trauma and violence, with the stark, plainspoken language of a desert, seared..."

Fields Delmar | NONFICTION | "As a family physician and obstetrician, I tend to people and their families. My clinic day usually includes.."

Stephanie Macias | GRASP | "SHE WEARS A red sock to keep it quiet..."

Sasha Hom | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "No . . . We don’t know . . . These meetings? . . . Yes, I know . . . Every Wednesday . . ."

Marianne Chan | ESSAY | "IMMIGRATION STORIES ARE origin stories and, like many origin stories, ours begins with a fall..."

Despy Boutris | POETRY | "I’m not asking for much. Only everything: to sprawl in every open field, to never age, to always be the most..."

Ariel Chu | APERTURE | "The day we meet, we bond over our broken hearts. Walking around the man-made marsh..."

Fullamusu Bangura | NONFICTION | "ON MY LAST trip home to DC, I sorted through what was left of my childhood belongings..."

Julie Moon | DIARY | "MY NAME IS Cleopatra. If someone orders me killed, they might do it for the soil..."