Special Releases
Stranged Writing: A Literary Taxonomy
Species:
Maziar Karim | “Mass”
Cameron Morse | “Dr. Abbasi”
rachel atakpa | “First Kiss” and “Mirror”
John Savoie | “Quiddity”
Genus:
Cameron Quan Louie | “Laschamp Event”
Peg Alford Pursell | “Swans”
Nancy Carol Moody | “Compendium”
Michelle Bonczek Evory | “5 of 25 Extinct Species Named in 2021”
Wendy Bourgeois | “Clip out Tips for STRANGEDrevisionTM”
Family:
Marc A. Criley | “How Do You Erase a Blank?”
Łukasz Drobnik | “Phagocytosis”
Sophia N. Ashley | “The Economics of Death”
Agata Antonow | “3 Recipes for Cabbage from My Grandmother”
Amy Goldmacher | “(After)Math”
Order:
Claire Dez | “Sanatorium for the Dead and Recently Deceased”
Cameron Walker | “The Rattlers”
Alex Behr | “I of I”
Matt Rebholz | “A Map for How to Crash”
Richard Magahiz | “As We Creep Back into the World”
Class:
Katie Curran | “The Kaleidoscope”
Catherine Moscatt | “All Smiles”
Lucie Bonvalet | “Plants Dream”
Jeff Alessandrelli | “Peals of (Part 6)”
Joanna Cleary | “On Waiting”
Phylum:
Rita Pomade | “That Seafaring Witch Took My Man”
Michael Galat | “Writing Home”
Christi Nogle | “I Entered Veda’s Dream”
Adria Bernardi | “Armoire”
Janna Urschel | “Communicability”
Kingdom:
Kara McMullen | “Things Begin to Happen at a Faster Rate”
Benjamin Kessler | “How to Build a Box”
Maggie Veness | “The Martinet”
K. James D’Agostino | “The Worms”
Matthew Robinson | “On Difficulty”
Domain:
Joshua James Amberson | “Contact: A Catalog”
David Stromberg | “Eyeless”
Franki Haber | “The Memory Game”
Eli Ronick | “Dark/ness”
Juliana Roth | “The Role of the Environmental Writer”
New Writers Issue
Short:
Katie Curran | “The Kaleidoscope”
Lerato Ramodike | “Bodies in the Storm”
Juliana Wnuk | “[what does not belong to you]”
Poetry:
Chris Carrera | “Wandering Maiden”
Katie McCarthy | “Remind Me Your Name Again”
Susan Moon | “Draw a Line”
Multimedia: Duets
(with guest musician Mike Castillo)
Short:
Beata Garrett | “Desert Daughters”
Andrew Steketee | “Exhibits for the Court”
Poetry:
E. Kristin Anderson | “Fall into the Rotted Mouth a Little Bit Lighter”
Lucia Orellana-Damacela | “(S)alt(ar)”
Baring the Device Features
Hybrid Essays:
Joshua James Amberson | “The Noblest of the Senses: A Catalog”
Dan Chilton | “The Other Side of the Thing”
Jacey de la Torre | “Ability to Fit”
Juliana Roth | “The Role of the Environmental Writer”
David Stromberg | “Abstract Writing”
Seasonal Issues
Summer 2024
Short:
Jordan Marzka | “Spruce Traps”
Poetry:
Lydia Bennett | “Love in the End Times, What to Do with the Girl on the Dance Floor”
Charles Byrne | “Postapocalypto”
Lily Holloway | “Heart-Foal”
Marceline White | “Anagram of My Name Ending in Agreement”
Multimedia:
Makayla Gay | Selected Poems
Spring 2024
Flash:
Wendy BooydeGraaff and Susan Wider | “Perceptions Shift”
Jennifer Robinson | “Book Your Injectables”
Prose poetry:
Michael Levan | “Willing”
Poetry:
Luke Eldredge | “Great Chain of Being”
Desiree Remick | “Three Anagram Poems”
Multimedia:
Ivan de Monbrison | “Yesterday I Wasn’t Myself”
Winter 2024
Short:
Zdravka Evtimova | “Sweet Cherries”
Lillie E. Franks | “Paradoxes, Borders, and Tragedies”
Maria Kassandrou | “The Shadow of Dorothea Politis”
Chelsea Utecht | “In Exchange”
Poetry:
Mykyta Ryzhykh | Untitled Poem
Multimedia:
Sam Leuenberger | “Prom”
Fall 2023
Short:
Marguerite Alley | “A Haunting”
Gale Huxley | “The Return of the Lunar”
Poetry:
Alex Braslavsky | “Daylight Savings”
Daniel de Culla | “Where Are You Going?”
Mike Wilson | “I Might Be Batman”
Six Words:
Summer 2023
Short:
Emma Campbell | “Beetles”
Annie Fay Meitchik | “All at Once”
A.T. Yano | “Rent, Gold, and Chicxulub: A Core Sample of Our Deposits”
Prose poetry:
Ted Jean | “Albany en Recto Verso”
Emily O Liu | “Notes on Being a Real Person”
Poetry:
Martin Shapiro | “Swirl”
Spring 2023
Short:
Amber Burke | “Matter of Days”
Flash:
Amanda Jaffe | “Coot Feet”
Poetry:
Sirianna Helleloid | “Parabola Is the Most Beautiful Word in the English Language”
Trish Hopkinson | “Nocturne to Uterus”
Multimedia:
D.C. Copeland and Joronne Jeter | “There Is No Happy Ending”
Six Words:
Winter 2023
Short:
Dina Hendawi | “The Twice-Defined Other”
Mackenzie Singh | “The Guest”
Prose poetry:
William Doreski | Selected Prose Poems
Poetry:
Nate Logan | Selected Poems
Violet Piper | “Twenty-Four, Candidly”
Mykyta Ryzhykh | Untitled Poem
Fall 2022
Short:
Ellie Cheng | “A Time After Fireflies”
Daniel Solomon | “Put the Pigeon in the Road”
Flash:
Beth Kephart | “Love in the Knots of the Coptic Stitch”
Christine Salek | “Imaginary Friend”
Prose poetry:
Marc Vincenz | “Pandering to the Audience”
Microfiction:
Edward Ahern | “Tectonics”
Summer 2022
Short:
H. T. Brickner | “Ninety-Nine Percent Y”
Sean Hennessey | “The Full Swing Swung”
Sonia Trickey | “Metamorphoses”
Poetry:
Élyse Deering | “She Is an Artist”
Liam McLean | “Bertilax Trax, or Xperience of a Day”
Victoria Punch | “Cormorant Flight”
Spring 2022
Short:
Kaitlin Stone | “Bear It”
Flash:
John Grayson Heide | “Marlon Brando Is a Bowling Pin”
Susan L. Lin | “Little Z”
Poetry:
Ashley Deng | “Conquest, as Seen by the City”
Janis Butler Holm | “Sound Poems: Boys and Girls”
Cameron Morse | Selected Poems
Winter 2022
Short:
Alex Dannemiller | “Best Forgotten Monsters”
Flash:
Peg Alford Pursell | Selected Flash
Samantha Steiner | “Bus Stop”
Poetry:
John Aberdein | “Atween the Wind an the Wa”
Liliya Gazizova | “Don’t Sleep!”
Christine Tierney | Selected Poems
Fall 2021
Flash:
Rosalind Goldsmith | “Swing”
Deepanshi Matai | “A Reverie Through Stone”
Poetry:
J. D. Nelson | Selected Poems
Dylan Taylor | Nine Micropoems
Multimedia:
Caroline Montgelas | “Ransom Note from Your PTSD”
Six Words:
Summer 2021
Flash:
Alissa Hattman | “We All Fall Down”
Meredith Smith | “5 Signs Your House May Suffer From Possession”
Prose poetry:
Tess Kursel | “Any Which Way”
Poetry:
Jeffrey Bean | “Figures 5-28”
Sam Leuenberger | “All My Straight Friends Say”
Hannah Linden | “Slum Clearances”
Spring 2021
Short:
Laurel DiGangi | “Shirt and Tie”
Kara McMullen | “Things Begin to Happen at a Faster Rate”
Emma Wilson-Kanamori | “The Third Floor”
Flash:
Matthew Dettmer | “I drove to west virginia when the weather was warm”
Poetry:
Joshua Calladine-Jones | “Four Konstrukce”
Six Words:
Winter 2021
Short:
Lucie Bonvalet | “Septimus”
Freyja Hellebust | “July”
Suman Mallick | “Disorientation”
Poetry:
Ron Riekki | “In”
Yuan Changming | Selected Poems
Six Words:
Fall 2020
Short:
Lillie Franks | Variations on Three Fables by Aesop
Novel Excerpt:
Jessica Standifird (Rich) | Addy
Flash:
Megan Savage | “The Ugly Sweatshirt”
Poetry:
Alex Behr | Selected Poems
Samantha Fain | “Joy”
Kristi Maxwell | “Flying Fox”
Summer 2020
Short:
Kevin Finnerty | “The Exasperated Law Professor’s Final Exam”
Emelia Steenekamp | “Time Animal”
Prose Poetry:
Jennifer Lang | “Sounds Like”
Poetry:
Daneen Bergland | Selected Poems
Melanie Friedman | “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
Turandot Shayegan | “Itchy”
Spring 2020
Short:
K. James D’Agostino | “The Worms”
Franki Haber | “The Memory Game”
Grace Yannotta | “Before Advent”
Poetry:
Lenore S. Beadsman | “Nightingale Sonnets”
Janice Lee | “Scission”
Patrick S. Rogers | Selected Poems
Winter 2020
Flash:
Sean Davis | “Schrödinger’s Saint”
Gail Hosking | “Marriage”
Multimedia:
Sam Leuenberger | “Portraits of Leonardo DiCaprio”
Poetry:
Jesi Bender | “How the Island Forms”
Jessie Janeshek | “Run It up the Flagpole and See”
Six Words:
Fall 2019
Short:
Ian Goodale | “The Alchemy of the Eye”
Ewa Mazierska | “The Art of Haiku”
Poetry:
Jay Barnica | “No-brainer”
William C. Blome | “Pigeon”
Vivian Ia | “Thrust Fault”
Six Words:
Summer 2019
Short:
Donald Anderson | “TNT”
Matthew Harder | “The Sorrows of the Pelican”
Multimedia:
J.I. Kleinberg | “We Are Bound”
Poetry:
Victoria Iacchetta | Selected Poems
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens | Selected Poems
Cameron Morse | Selected Poems
Spring 2019
Short:
Rebecca Ruth Gould | “Hands”
Kelsey Pinckney | “In the Beginning”
Matt Rebholz | “Death Mountain”
Multimedia:
Sabrina Gaskill | “Image Formation”
Poetry:
Casey Golomski | “To the Fossil”
Miranda Sun | “Disowned Light”
Winter 2019
Short:
Sarah Clayville | “Power Play”
Benjamin Kessler | “How to Build a Box”
Flash:
Rosalie Morales Kearns | “The Juniper Tree, in Three Attempts”
Poetry:
Daniel Bourne | Selected Poems
E. Martin Pedersen | “Lists”
Susannah Violette | Selected Poems
Fall 2018
Short:
Desmond Everest Fuller | “Last Days of Tornado Season in Topeka”
Renee Soasey | “The Would-be Plan”
Flash:
Peg Alford Pursell | “In the Beginning”
Poetry:
Mike Corrao | “Honey and Fungus Assemblage”
Maria Pachowicz | Selected Poetry
Six Words:
Summer 2018
Short:
Tetman Callis | “Yellowjacket”
Flash:
Kathryn Hill | “Valley Dog”
Justine Young | “The Ground Between Us”
Poetry:
Karen An-hwei Lee | Selected Poems
Daniel Romo | “Hues”
Six Words:
Spring 2018
Flash:
M. F. McAuliffe | “The Depression, The Cold War, and The Chemist”
Andrew Mitin | “||”
Poetry:
Sarah McCann | “Grammar”
Natasha Mijares | Selected Poems
Carrie Nassif | Selected Poems
Six Words:
Winter 2018
Short:
John H. Leavitt | “Smithereens”
Abigail Georege | “Wild Geese Calling”
Flash:
Łukasz Drobnik | “Devonian”
Poetry:
Karolinn Fiscaletti | “VI”
Joshua Smith | Selected Poems
Six Words:
Fall 2017
Short:
Lisa Regen | “The Noble Horse”
Shannon Coghlan Reiss | “Day Is Done”
Flash:
Joshua Michael Maher | “Still Renting”
Multimedia:
Cameron Quan Louie | “Child Life Arithmetics”
Poetry:
Ryan Saul Cunningham | Selected Poems
Victoria Le | “Park”
Summer 2017
Short:
Dorothy Cornish | “We Need to Talk about Karen”
Alethea Tusher | “New Old Friends”
Flash:
Alex Behr | “Angel Dust”
Poetry:
Cameron Quan Louie | Selected Poems
Will McCollum | “Wak’a”
Six Words:
Spring 2017
Short:
Sally K Lehman | “Not Crying”
Eva Myers | “The Art of Lying”
Flash:
Evan Steuber | “Cementia”
Adam Strong | “Inner Fire”
Poetry:
nicole v basta | Selected Poems
Six Words:
Winter 2017
Short:
Sam Leuenberger | “Puzzle”
Kathryn H. Ross | “Seeds”
Poetry:
Peter Longofono | Selected Poems
Emelia Reuterfors | Selected Poems
Six Words:
Fall 2016
Short:
James Guthrie | “The Bone Cans”
Carlo Matos | “Portuguese Paradise”
Poetry:
Stephanie Glazier | Selected Poems
Robert West | “A Classical Triptych”
Six Words:
Summer 2016
Short:
Joel Best | “Einstein at Home”
Cheryl Jacobs | “The Hole”
Poetry:
Michael Paul Hogan | “Six Variations on a Theme of Jacques Prévert”
Six Words:
Spring 2016
Short:
Alina Stefanescu | “Our Friend, Mia”
Flash:
M. F. McAuliffe | “The Cohort of Mist, Fog, and Fire”
Christi R. Suzanne | “Ferris Wheel Witness”
Poetry:
Joseph Harms | “Antinomian”
D.J. Parris | “Be Eye No See”
Six Words:
Winter 2016
Flash:
Kurt Cline | “Three Prose Shorts”
Dara Hurd-Danilson | “Under the Big Top”
Poetry:
Rachel R. Carroll | “Grey Girls”
Carrie Nassif | “At this Altitude”
Six Words:
Gerrard Lipscombe | Contest Finalist
Ty Phelps | Contest Winner
Fall 2015
Novel Excerpt:
Christie Wilson | “The Fisherman”
Short:
Marcie Friedman | “Possum”
Flash:
Mitchell Grabois | “Turbine”
Kate Jayroe | “Bad Girl”
Poetry:
Elizabeth Sackett | “Rib”
Six Words:
Summer 2015
Short:
Katrina Carrasco | “Bad Water”
Poetry:
Howie Good | Selected Poems
Emily Kepulis | “The Edge”
Karl Miller | “Outside (Diptych)”
Ryan Mills | “Thunder of a Thousand”
Six Words:
Fall 2013
Short:
Doug Chase | “Slowly I Turn”
Flash:
Carrie Padian | “Red”
Davis Slater | “From that Moment (A Story in Reverse)”
Six Words:
Summer 2013
Flash:
Miranda Brown | “Tarantula Hawk”
Zach Ellis | “Happy Anniversary”
Courtney Sherwood | “Flash without a Climax”
Valerie Wagner | “Forgotten”
Poetry:
Tyler Knott Gregson | Selected Poems
Six Words: