Volume 12

Fiction

Anne Baldo - Lady Driven
Jonathan Berzer - Until Something Better Comes Along
Shane Combs - Underneath
Zachary Holmes Spence - Heat
Zimuzo K. Okeke - Leather Tires
Ali Pensky - Walker
Suchitra Sukumar - Elbow Room
Kendall Teare - Mr. Delacour
Karen Uhlmann - The Pool House
Sona Verdi - Fatima and Freddie

non-fiction

Ronnie Ashline - Cruise to Nowhere: Nine Days with My Mom
Chris Bailey - My Mother’s Bones
Violet Piper - A Few of the Subjects
Kaylie Saidin - Shadow

Poetry

Lauren Arienzale - Phoenix
Shannon Cates - vacancy | alien abductionville
Christopher Cokinos - Station Keeping | A Diorama of Ontologists
2nd-place winner of the 2025 Beautiful Pause Prize for Poetry
Émilie Galindo - Putting the Keep in Keepsakes
Vivian Kao - August 4, 2023
James King - Spotify Wrapped Tells You Exactly What You’ve Been Missing
Kale Hensley - Instead of Heart, We Could Say | Forgive My 9 AM Salivations But,
Cassund Olivier - Heartbreaker
Kate Polak - A Late Night Scroll
Sarah Dickenson Snyder - Tell the Truth
Will Sharp - After fleeing the Negev: West Midlands | Kemerburgaz

Featured Throwback

Hole-Punched Great Depression - The US Farm Security Administration’s commissioned-then-“killed” photographs of the Great Depression

Featured Young artist (Artists & writers 18 and Under)

Ashley Mo - A Grieving Girl's Crying Log - Poetry

Art

Charles deVries - Release | Harvest Goddess - Sculpture
KJ Hannah Greenberg - Chit-Chat | Penned - Photographs
Lee Johnson - Witchcraft dancing | Oysters dream - Collage
Tim Lane - Entanglement | Spooky Action at a Distance | No Looks Back - Paintings
Nuala McEvoy - Evening Lights | Five Boats a Sailing | Olivia’s Thanksgiving - Paintings
Michael Noonan - Storm at Sea | What Kept Yer - Painting & Drawing
Paul Rabinowitz - Slack Water | Portrait with Hands on Wall - Photographs