2020 Summer Contest
Editorial
Dark Summer
by Natalie Satakovski
Poetry
Winner
[START AT THE BEGINNING]
by Zebulon Huset
Finalists
I’ve Been Waiting for Hate to Die
by Ellen June Wright
I Attend a Pool Party at Some Guy’s L.A. Mansion
by Alaina Bainbridge
Creative Nonfiction
Winner
And the Men Like Gods
by Natalie Beisner
Finalists
Bayou Oysters, Bayou Oil
by Albert Leftwich
Waiting
by Patrick Pawlowski
Fiction
Winner
Sex-O-Rama, 1993
by Jenny Robertson
Finalists
Wonga Beach
by Katie O’Donnell
A Lamentation of Swans
by Marlene Olin
Interviews
On Mentorship, Subverting Form, and dark / / thing: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
by Brianne Griffith
Dawn Davies on the Fourth Genre, Writing Humor, and her Personal Essay Wishlist
by Kristin Gallagher
Art
Miami Arena, A Homeless Supper, Black Cow Disease, Ode to Gerald the Resurrection of Fish & There has Always Been a Knee on our Backs
by Charles E Humes, Jr.
Rose Sun
by Rachel Cloud Adams
Living on the Edge
by Lawrence Bridges
Head Should
by Kim Rae Taylor
Sixteen
by Turner Hilliker
The War Within
by Olga Brindar
The Rope of Realities
by Mane Hovhannisyan
Staff
Faculty Advisor
Denise Duhamel
Managing Editor
Natalie Satakovski
Assistant Managing Editor
Kristin Gallagher
Poetry Judge
Ashley M. Jones
Creative Nonfiction Judge
Dawn Davies
Fiction Judge
Alex Segura
Readers
Brittany Owens, Jaden Gongaware, Susan Falco, Yael Aldana, Jordan Hill, Michael Garcia, Camila Saavedra, Michael Sheriff, Von Wise, Madison Whatley, Lissa Batista, Nicole Mestre & Halsey Hyer.
Cover artist
Charles E. Humes, Jr. has been a professional fine artist for over forty years. He’s a recipient of multiple grants and fellowships, including the State of Florida’s Individual Artist Grant in painting, and a Smithsonian Southern Arts Federation Print-making Fellow. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in major galleries and universities, and have received numerous awards and honors throughout the USA.
