Grist Journal | Issue 12
PROFORMA CONTEST WINNERS | ESSAYS | FICTION | INTERVIEWS | POETRY | GRIST ONLINE
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PROFORMA CONTEST WINNERS
SARA RYAN (First Place)
CHRISTINE ADAMS (Runner Up)
Fourteen Adaptations of the
Female Ceratioid
FARNAZ FATEMI (Runner Up)
ESSAYS
Leslie McGrath
Ainsley McWha
The Man from the Bar
Ana Maria Spagna
The Unfolding
Mary Zelinka
FICTION
Jennifer Marie Donahue
The Case of the Eclectus Parrot
Laura Schmitt
John Shakespear
Roman Candle
Benjamin Soileau
God’s Breath
Kat Williams
Fat Girls, Black Girls, Skinny Bitches
INTERVIEWS
Joy Harjo
In the Middle of a Wound, a Space in Words
by Jeremy Michael Reed
Kristen Roupenian
Oh, the Horror
by Samantha Edmonds
POETRY
Greg Allendorf
Trick
Devon Balwit
[Each Afternoon a Choice]
Daniel Barton
Clearing the Garden
Rebecca Bedell
Watersheds
Joy Grace E. Chen
Inheritance
Caitlyn Curran
A Bumper Sticker Tells Me What Belongs
Rachel Deer-Katz
The Year the Cancer Cluster Tanked Home Values
Chelsea B. DesAutels
On Learning Surgery Is Contraindicated
John Dudek
After Dark
Dionne Custer Edwards
Red Tide
Kat Finch
Dear Blue
Joy Harjo
The Story Wheel
Washing My Mother’s Body
Rochelle Hurt
Prayer for Exposure
Gilad Jaffe
We Only Ever Talk When I Smell Like Fire
Jessica Lee
In the Yard
Alex Lemon
XXXII
XXXIII
Emily Luan
Anger Diaries
Two Monks
Michael Malan
Song of Insufficient Reason
Elisávet Makridis
Song, in Perpetuity
Cameron McGill
Meridians
James McKenna
Self-Portrait as Cumulonimbus
Aline Mello
I Will Be An Animal
Sam Pittman
White Noise
Phoebe Reeves
The Gardener and the Garden (eight)
C.T. Salazar
Poem Ending with Collapse
Caleb Scott
Finding
Claire Scott
One Week After My Mother’s Funeral
Jacqueline Schaalje
Family at Sea
Kirk Schlueter
Self Defense
Karen Schubert
The Girl Scout Leader’s Daughter
Julie Strand
Entitling Ourselves to Kinship
Epilimnion: The Great One on Top Us All
Ojo Taiye
Mourns Down the Moon & Dissolves It on Her Tongue Like a Wafer
Dujie Tahat
Salat During the Graveyard Shift at a Gas Station
Laura Wetherington
The Great Basin
Never Not October
Cynthia White
One Life to Live
Elizabeth Vignali
Audubon’s Birds of America, First Edition
M.A. Vizsolyi
An Old Paramour
Michael Zinkowski
Sentenced to Salmon
tamara zbrizher
Driving Mama Home from Work
GRIST ONLINE COMPANION
INTERVIEW
ALLISON PITINII DAVIS
An Interview with Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
NONFICTION
Krys Malcolm Belc
How to Photograph Your Newborn
David Carlin
NICOLE WALKER
POETRY
Holli Carrell
DAN CHU
John Cho
Lying on the Beach in Ko Phi Phi
ADAM CLAY
Where the Map Is
Placeholder for Inaction
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Cydnee Devereaux
In My Brother’s House
Poem in Which I Set My Brothers on Fire
LEAH FALK
Matty Layne Glasgow
Quaking Aspen, or dendrophilia
W. Todd Kaneko & Amorak Huey
BEN KLINE
Mackenzie Kozak
Julio Cesar Villegas
LOGO WEI
ROSS WHITE
PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A CARTOON ROBBER
