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Fiction

Dani Diehl, “Daughter”
JoAnna Novak, Two Stories
Drew Calvin McCutchen, “On the Cape of Sleep and Well-Being”
Lara Palmqvist, “Suhaila”
Shreya Vikram, “Mother”

Poetry

James O’Bannon, Two Poems
Stephanie Duggar, Three Poems
Chelsea Dingman, Two Poems
Catherine Arnold, “The Walls Will Be Silenced When She Speaks”
Rebecca Jamieson, “In the Time Before Worry”
Talia Bloch, “Corners”
Emily Banks, “Banana Gun”
Bruce Bond, Two Poems
Benjamin Landry, “Time of Asters”
Erik Wilbur, “Relativity; or, the Life of a Housefly Is Shorter Than a Solar Day on the Moon”
Katlyn Tjerrild, “Aftershocks”
Sara McNally, “Snapshots in Which [ ] Is Everywhere”
Hannah Kroonblawd, Two Poems
Kate Patridge, Two Poems
Marci Rae Johnson, “Alternatives to the Big Bang Theory, Explained”
Patrick Whitfill, “Teleology Vol. 1”
Katie Kehoe, “Get Results with Real Start Plus for Free Now”
Michael Meyerhofer, “Text Messages Between Wildfires”
Regina DiPerna, Two Poems
Nick Reading, Two Poems
Jeff Fearnside, “What We Call Home”
Brandon Krieg, “Bees of the Invisible”
April Goldman, Two Poems
Danielle Rose, Two Poems
Dave Harrity, “Elegy : Tide”
Rachel Price, “How to Identify Birds”
Emma Aylor, “Old Moon”
Emily Paige Wilson, Two Poems
Danielle Zaccagnino ,Two Poems
Nicole Callihan, “Days”
Jaimee Hills, Two Poems
Emily Hockaday, “Downsizing”
Anna Girgenti, “Tiresias Learns to Write”
Jessica Cuello, “Dear Mother,”

Translation Chapbooks

Aigerim Tazhi, Prayers at Full Volume
Translated from the Russian and Introduced by J. Kates
Aksinia Mihaylova, The Meaning of Visible Things
Translated from the French and Introduced by Marissa Davis

Translation

Salgado Maranhão “Delirica V”
Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin

The 2020 Fineline Competition

First Prize:
Rachel Morgan, “They Go on Living”
Runner-Up:
John Blair, “The Bus”
Finalists:
Caitie Barrett, “Psyche”
Leonora Desar, “Petiteness”
Cory Oldweiler, “Pentimento”
Steven Slamoni, “Study in Glass”
Alan Sincic, “What I Want from the Old Men”
Kristen Smith, “This blueball strand,”

The 2020 AWP Intro Journals Award

Jessica Nirvana Ram, “i am unfit to raise daughters”
Matthew Morris, “Pardo/Ghost Hand”

The 2021 AWP Intro Journals Award

Ae Hee Lee, “Would I Rather Soften”
Danielle Harms, “The Blood Kettle”

What We’re Reading

Rare Wondrous Things by Alyse Bensel, Reviewed by Mackenna Finley
48 Blitz by Brett Biebel, Reviewed by Matt Miller
The Calling by Bruce Bond, Reviewed by Leslie Benigni
The Cipher by Molly Brodak, Reviewed by Matthew Sweet
Those Who Keep Arriving by Julie Danho, Reviewed by Samantha Fain
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, Reviewed by Felicia Cameron
Mannequin and Wife by Jen Fawke’s, Reviewed by Brenna Hosman
Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes, Reviewed by Chloe McConnell
What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy Fox, Reviewed by Kelly Kurtzhals Geiger
Oh You Robot Saints! by Rebecca Morgan, Reviewed by Hannah Yerington
Whale and Vapor by Kim Kyung Ju, Reviewed by Turner Wilson
that’s what you get by Sheila Maldonado, Reviewed by Angelica Esquivel
The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne by Michael Martone, Reviewed by Téa Franco
In the Night Field by Cameron McGill, Reviewed by Samantha Fain
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, Reviewed by Jason Marc Harris
Alien Stories by E. C. Osundu, Reviewed by Kangsen “Yassay” Masango
No Mask, No Talk: Corona Poems 2020-2021 by Eve Packer, Reviewed by Austin Alexis
Alias by Eric Pankey, Reviewed by Turner Wilson
Fjords vol. II by Zachary Schomburg, Reviewed by Samuel Burt
Silverfish by Rone Shavers, Reviewed by Molly Weiland
The History of America in My Lifetime by Brooks Sterritt, Reviewed by Nick Gardner
Caw by Michael Waters, Reviewed by Michael Beard
Semiotic Love [Stories] by Brian Phillip Whalen, Reviewed by Molly Weiland
The Wendys by Allison Benis White, Reviewed by Tim Neil

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Fiction

Anne Guidry, “Disrepair”
Grey Wolfe LaJoie, “Mention of Flesh”
E.J. Morris, “Popsicle Sticks”
Teresa Burns Gunther, “Abundance”
Mariya Poe, “No Milk, Just Beef”
Hazel Foster, “A Permanent State”

Poetry

Doug Ramspeck, “Two Poems”
Joni Lee, Three Poems
Dan Rosenberg, “If You Carry the Book I Will Carry You”
Danielle Pieratti, “Matins”
Heather Lanier, “Bear Leads Police in Wild Chase…”
Paul Howe, “Lost Infinities” 
Kwame Dawes, Three Poems
Francine Witte, “First conversations, maybe”
Hannah V. Warren “Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve”
Michele Karas, “Tulip Cuttings”
Meg Stout, “Jonagold, McInstosh, Cortland, &c”
M.A. Scott “Mercy, Recurring”
Monica Joy Fara, “Grassland Psalm”

Creative Nonfiction

Jenniey Tallman, “Our Belmont”

Translation

Max Sessner, At Last with a Small Sigh the Mouth
Translated from the German and Introduced by Francesca Bell

Khal Torabully, Sentences Staining the Sea
Translated from the French and Introduced by Nancy Naomi Carlson

The 2019-2020 Fineline Competition

First Prize
Diane LeBlanc, “Possum”
     Runner Up
Richard Garcia, “San Francisco” 
     Finalists
Cherie Hunter Day, “Passerine”
Leonora Desar, “The Jennifers”
Merridawn Duckler, “Parable of the Bone”
Jeff Gundy, “Corn”
Diane LeBlanc, “Suddenly You Are Alone”
Nancy Ludmerer, “Fathers”
Carmen Maldonado, “The Origin of Language”
Molly Reid, “Advice for Eating an Animal”

What We’re Reading

Extinction Events by Liz Breazeale, reviewed by Matt Stewart
Night Angler by Geffrey Davis, reviewed by Alison Meijas Santoro
The Boy in the Labyrinth by Oliver de la Paz, reviewed by Abigail Cloud
Oceanographyby Jeremy Griffin, reviewed by Annie Cigic
The Snow Collectors by Tina May Hall, reviewed by George Looney
American Grief in Four Stages by Sadie Hoagland, reviewed by Kari Hanlin
No Good for Digging by Dustin M. Hoffman, reviewed by Alise Miller
Requiem with an Amulet in its Beak by Elizabeth Knapp, reviewed by Cassandra Caverhill
All Its Charms by Keetje Kuiper, reviewed by Cloe Dree Watson
Ivy vs. Dogg by Brian Leung, reviewed by Brenna Hosman
Claiming a Body by Amanda Marbais, reviewed by Angela C. Kramer
Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability and Medicine edited by Dinty W. Moore, Erin Murphy, and Renée K. Nicholson, reviewed by Aryanna Falkner
The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary by Molly Reid, reviewed by Chad Merrell
Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye, reviewed by Julie Webb
Settlers by F. Daniel Rzicznek, reviewed by Michelle Bellman
Threshold Delivery by Patty Seyburn, reviewed by Turner Wilson
The Lines by Anthony Varallo, reviewed by Nick Gardner
As One Fire Consumes Another by John Sibley Williams, reviewed by Matt Miller