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Winning Writers Announces the Winners of the 26th Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest

Charlie Schneider and Ryan Ireland won our 2018 fiction and essay contest; Elizabeth Brina won second prize

The Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry (no fee)

Kansas poets with book-length works published in the past three years are eligible to win the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry

Subscriber News: October 2018

Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers

Art Has an Effect (Make Sure It’s the Effect You Want)

Fiction editor May Peterson on the purpose of sensitivity readers

She started dating the celebrity in June. That summer Mari's air conditioner broke and three days later the roaches showed up. She weathered through six weeks of it. Her landlord refused to step in until she'd paid her rent, and she wasn't really in the mood to do that. There…

The Hood Rats Taught Themselves the Rasengan: A Meditation on Anime & the Hood

And to this day, that notion still persists—that one's worth is bound to the confines of the streets that they exist among. If the cement upon the sidewalk is cracked, so must be our moral, social, and intellectual compasses. If the streetlights remain dim, barely distinguishable from the absolute night,…

What It Was Turned Ollie Queer

Lamar kicked a cedar stump into the glowing coals. A swarm of swirling orange embers mingled with the stars. We watched them, in awe, just as we did decades ago when we were kids, as they meandered and faded. They were fire and brimstone to some of my companions. I…

In a Traditional Confessional

Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It's been four years since my last confession. * In a traditional confessional, the priest doesn't see your face. I feel secure in my own compartment of the booth as I kneel. That way I am able to give a true and complete…

The Goose Girl

“Are you here to find a husband?” “I'm here to study. Like you.” Truda Baum leaned away from Oswald Teichmuller's pink eyelids and thin lips. She was not like him. Truda had moved in a straight line, from her home and from her early mathematical studies, towards the most famous…

Walk on Fine

Rhumsiki, Far North Region, Cameroon Watches the sun set behind a long, low jawline of mountains. Watches the dirt go rust red, like the land's been bled on, end to end. Watches the dust kicked up by the motorcycles and horses, settling in a powder coat as orange as the…

The Mermaid

This story is titled “The Mermaid”, but it could also be titled “How to Un-Fishscale Your Hands”. It could even be “Tia Reina Cleans a Fish, and the Predicament that Ensues”. But no matter the title, the story is the same. You are in the presence of your tia, who…

I Am Coming for You

I am coming for you. My mother might have said those words the night she went after him—the bearded man, the one she took to her room all those nights. He would come over after I'd gone to bed. She carried me from her room—the only place I could fall…

Night Vision

The night that I saw the future was on the day that my best friend Pedro told me he was going off to war. And it started innocently enough. That morning, the first day of summer before my senior year, I couldn't sleep in, what with Mason and Anna Marie…

Java Jaya

I live with my husband in Cambridge. I haven't gone back to India since I left five years ago. I came here on a spouse visa, got a degree in information systems, and work in a small firm as an analyst. Last year we bought a house together. My friend…

How They Met

Author's Note: The Battle of Okinawa began April 1st, 1945 and ended June 22nd, 1945. The entire island was devastated. Crumbled and charred black from bombing and shelling. 183,000 U.S. troops invaded the island, wielding tanks, grenades, and guns. 122,000 Okinawans, nearly one third of the population, almost all civilians,…

Circumambulatory Cacozelia

I told you how diner slang worked—how cooks shortchanged words barking orders back and forth in Spanglish, cursing and carrying on all the while. “Cobb—no turk, sub ham, x-egg, scrap mix, spin, toss ranch,” I said by way of example, adding the obligatory no mames to the end. “That's hardly…

Lulu

My twin sister Lulu and I haven't been close since The Thing, a term I use for her sake. I can say it squarely: the tragedy. The accident. The crash, almost twenty years ago. When we were twelve, our parents took us to Playland in Rye, and on the way…

Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2018

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest!

Tanushree Baidya

Born in India, Tanushree has been living and writing in Boston since moving there from Bombay seven years ago. A graduate of the Yale Writer's Workshop, a Vermont Studio Center alum, and a member of the (Grub Street supported) Boston Writers of Color Group, her work has appeared or is…

Joseph Hernandez

Joseph Hernandez lives in California and writes fiction that explores the dynamics of family life and the barriers that separate generations. His short story “The Christening of the Fruit” won The Los Angeles Review's Short Fiction Award in 2016, and several of his stories have appeared in various other places.…

Michael Tuohy

Born in New Jersey in Eisenhower times (1954), Mike moved to Georgia in 1965 and has sopped up Southern culture ever since. A professional geologist working the environmental consulting rackets by day, he chronicles the preposterous through flash fiction, short stories, novellas and a novel by night. His work has…

Hapuya Ononime

Hapuya Ononime's works have appeared in Catapult, Commonwealth Writers, Threepenny Review, and Transition Magazine, and have been shortlisted for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award. When he isn't teaching secondary school students or writing, he's definitely listening to music.

Patrick Boyce

Patrick Boyce was born and raised in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, the son and grandson of a farmer. The family farm was located five miles from Mexico. He attended the University of Texas, served for twenty years as a military intelligence professional in the US Army, along…

Adam Karlin

Adam Karlin is a full-time freelance writer. His journalism has been published by outlets like the BBC, NPR, and Christian Science Monitor, and for the past decade he has written guidebooks for Lonely Planet, covering three continents and dozens of locations. Over that time he has dispatched from Mongolia, the…

Kristie Betts Letter

Kristie Betts Letter's short story collection Fire in the Hole comes out from Engine Books in March 2019. Her poetry collection Under-Worldly (Editorial L'Aleph 2017) examines what lies beneath with what Cowboy Jamboree describes as “fantastic images of the subterranean grit”. The Massachusetts Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, Washington Square,…

Tammy Delatorre

Tammy Delatorre is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her essay, “Out of the Swollen Sea”, was selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the 2015 Payton Prize, and her essay, “Diving Lessons”, was awarded the 2015 Slippery Elm Prose Prize and recognized as a Notable Essay in the…

Julio Cesar Villegas

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, raised in Essex County, New Jersey, Poetry Reader for Muzzle Magazine, and current recipient of the Atlantis Award for Poetry, Julio Cesar Villegas is the writer that your abuelos warned you about. His scriptures can be found or are forthcoming in Rigorous Mag, Subprimal…

Mikaella Clements

Mikaella Clements is an Australian writer currently based in Berlin. Her short fiction has been published in Black Inc.'s Best Summer Stories anthology, Overland Literary Journal, Scum Mag and more, and she was longlisted for the 2018 Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. Her non-fiction has been published widely by…

Ryan Ireland

Ryan Ireland, PhD, is the author of two novels, Beyond the Horizon and Ghosts of the Desert. He has been published in Public Libraries Quarterly, Voices of Youth Advocates, Pallet, and Ripcord. In 2016, Ryan delivered “Your Story Matters”, a TEDx talk about the future of libraries. In 2018, he…

Charlie Schneider

Charlie Schneider holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Oregon, and he has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Tin House Summer Workshop. He has published work in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and in Joyland Magazine, where he won the 2018 Open Border Fiction…