Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Poetry & Prose Contests

Poetry Winner: Hero’s Journey

Rebecca Boyle

Poetry Runner-Up: Update

Chris Ketchum

Poetry Finalist: Rendezvous

William Cordeiro

Poetry Finalist: Farmstand in Freestone, First Rains

Kelly Gray

Poetry Finalist: Pockets of Desire, Surfacing

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

Poetry Finalist: [Yes, I abandon too quickly like]

Tyler Michael Jacobs

Poetry Finalist: All My Treasures

Fatima Jafar

Poetry Finalist: A Brief History of Love

Chiwenite Onyekwelu

Poetry Finalist: Aria of my Infidelity

Marshall Woodward

Poetry Finalist: can’t help myself!

Ziyi Yan

Prose Winner: Rabbit Heart

Ruby Simoneau

Prose Runner-Up: An Experiment

Mandira Pattnaik

Prose Finalist: Reset Request

Mel Lake

Prose Finalist: at the close

Bex Pachl

New Media: drip, drizzle, dribble

Aidan Strong

New Media: Motivating the Saboteur

Holly Karapetkova and David Hamilton

New Media: fruitflesh to her muse

d. h. croasdill

Book Review: Kevin Mulligan on Michael Clune

Kevin Mulligan

Book Review: Noah Warren on Natalie Shapero

Noah Warren

2025 AWP Intro Journals Award Winner: [Unbury my childhood]

Heather Neidlinger

2025 AWP Intro Journals Award Winner: Blue Heaven

Carter Groves

Issue 116: Contributors