Fiction
The Flatlander
Courtney Pasko is a writer and public library worker. Originally from rural Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Baltimore with her husband and their cat, Poe. Her work has previously appeared in HAD, hex literary, and The Dodge. Read more or get in touch at courtneypasko.com.
Tall Cowboy
Scott Brennan, a writer and photographer, divides his time between Miami, Florida, and Vermont. Recent work has appeared in The Hopkins Review, River Styx, Columbia Journal, Harvard Review, and Smithsonian. The recipient of the Scotti Merrill Award, his most recent book, Raft Made of Seagull Feathers, appeared with Main Street Rag Press.
Make it Dirty
Christopher Gonzalez is the author of the story collection I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021). He is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction and lives in Brooklyn. He can be found most places online, @livesinpages.
A Laicized Priest
Bryan D. Price is the author of A Plea for Secular Gods: Elegies (What Books, 2023) His stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Noon Annual, Chicago Quarterly Review, Brink, Dialogist, and elsewhere. He lives in San Diego, California.
Prunus Alleghaniensis
Brung up in West-by-God Virginia, Christina Craigo earned BFA and MFA degrees in painting and fine arts in Philadelphia and New York City. After a few decades of teaching, making, and exhibiting art (including a year in India supported by the Fulbright Foundation), she earned an MBA degree and took a more active role in managing a family business. She settled in Boulder, Colorado, and her creative inclinations shifted to writing fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Exposition Review, Hobart, Eclectica, Post Road, and Pembroke Magazine. She is seeking representation for her first novel and developing a second. For more information, please visit christinacraigo.com.
“Gum” and “Anything to Mess it Up” by Allison Field Bell
Allison Field Bell is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and she holds an MFA from New Mexico State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbook, Without Woman or Body, forthcoming 2025 from Finishing Line Press and the creative nonfiction chapbook, Edge of the Sea, forthcoming 2025 from Cutbank. Allison’s prose appears or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Passages North, RHINO Poetry, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Find her at allisonfieldbell.com.
Same by Blake Goodwin
Blake Goodwin is a fiction writer. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Maytag by Chris Wiberg
Chris Wiberg is a Chicago-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in journals including Fiction, Crab Orchard Review, Broad River Review, Folio, and Ninth Letter. He has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois and the Writer’s Studio at the University of Chicago Graham School. Professionally, he is a developmental editor in the medical field.
Trees Speak by Li Sian Goh
Li Sian Goh is a writer and researcher. Born and raised in Singapore, she now lives in New York, where she is at work on a short story collection and a novel. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Joyland Magazine, swamp pink, and No Tokens, and The Offing. For 2024, she is a Kweli Emerging Writer Fellow and a Periplus Fellow.
We Could Fix You
Alan Sincic teaches at Valencia College. His fiction has appeared in the New Ohio Review, Greensboro Review, Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere/ His short stories have won contests sponsored by the Texas Observer, Driftwood Press, Prism Review, Westchester, American Writer’s Review, Broad River Review, and Pulp Literature. The opening chapter of his novel, The Slapjack, won the 2021 First Pages Prize.
Circle of Instruction
Circle of Instruction Gage Saylor There are two types of people in this world: Jeopardy people and Wheel people. The Roberts are Jeopardy people. It’s
Nanny
Sumita Mukherji’s work has appeared in Witness, Failbetter, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in fiction writing from Warren Wilson College and her work has been supported by a Bread Loaf scholarship. She is working on a novel. Find out more at sumitamukherji.com.
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