Cover art by Karin Wraley
41 Table of Contents
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
