39.1 Table of Contents
Fiction
Mike Alberti, “The Woods”
Zachary Tyler Vickers, “Huggable Joe Klimt”
Adrienne Brock, “Jan Mayen”
John William McConnell, “Further Instructions”
Francine Witte, “By the lake”
Jim Ray Daniels, “Little Stevie Wonder”
Poetry
Jenna Bazzell, “May”
John Sibley Williams, Two Poems
Andrew Kozma, “Song of the Park Ranger”
Elizabeth Vignali, “Endangered Animal: The Manatee”
Rainie Oet, Three Poems
Janine Certo, “Holding Hands on the Bank. Leaves Float Down the River.”
Anna De Vaul, Two Poems
Mara Adamitz Scrupe, “Natural History”
Barbara Siegel Carlson, “Sharm el-Sheikh: The Secret of Things”
Andrew Hemmert, “Elegy with Salt at the Root”
Levi Andalou, Two Poems
Jessica Ankeny, “Centipede”
Leigh Anne Couch, “Heliotrope”
Tresha Faye Haefner, “Polestar of the Apocalypse”
Jory Mickelson, “Amelia Earhart Dreams of Dancing”
Creative Nonfiction
Mary Quade, “Zoo World”
Amanda Hawkins, “Lessons on Ashes”
Translation Chapbook
Riad Saleh Hussein, The World That Becomes Bread and Grapes
Translated from the Arabic and Introduced by Saleh Razzoul and Philip Terman
The 2018 Fineline Competition
First Prize
Ellen Samuels, “Cigarette-Paper Scars”
Runner-Up
Siân Griffiths, “You Were Raised by a Dragon. What Was It Like?”
Finalists
Randa Shehadi Breuer, “Siblings, Beirut 1967”
Leonora Dessar, “In This Fantasy I Went to Live with My Therapist”
Fay Dillof, “Number of Species”
Benjamin S. Grossberg, “I Sit at Her Bedside”
Kim Hamilton, “Lifelines”
Anderson Holderness, “Chicken Bone Cathedral”
Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Seams”
The 2018 AWP Intro Journals Awards
Allyson Hoffman, “Three Boys from Felton High School Go to War”
Mary Maroste, “Landscape with Sharp Rocks & Cream”
What We’re Reading
All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine, reviewed by Christina Stump
Too Quick for the Living by Walter Bargen, reviewed by Lucas Fulton
Secure Your Own Mask by Shaindel Beers, reviewed by Sherrel McLafferty
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, reviewed by Julie Webb
The Second O of Sorrow by Sean Thomas Dougherty, reviewed by Annie Cigic
Dogs of Detroit by Brad Felver, reviewed by Katy Cesarotti
The Darkness Call by Gary Fincke, reviewed by Matthew Stewart
Thank Your Lucky Stars by Sherrie Flick, reviewed by Ali Miller
All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman, reviewed by Erin Carlyle
The Science of Lost Futures by Ryan Habermeyer, reviewed by Neeru Nagarajan
The Devoted by Blair Hurley, reviewed by Blue Profitt
A Certain Loneliness by Sandra Gail Lambert, reviewed by Aryanna Faulkner
The Explosion Expert’s Wife by Shara Lessley, reviewed by Madeline Grigg
We’re Going to Need a Higher Fence by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, reviewed by Kate Partridge
Holy Moly Carry Me by Erika Meitner, reviewed by Shay Hawkins
Last City by Brian Sneeden, reviewed by Evan Blake
