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Leave Smoke, Poems by Jeff Walt

Leave Smoke is a personal and down-to-earth collection of poetry that speaks to the ordinary and the ups and downs of life and relationships

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest

The Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest seeks to inspire, motivate and encourage anyone having the desire or love of poetry and writing, to continue doing so without fear of failure or success

The Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award for the Best Work of Fiction (no fee)

This award is sponsored by the Center for Kansas Studies, the Thomas Fox Averill Kansas Studies Collection at Mabee Library, and the Friends of Mabee Library

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The Bridge of Eternal Happiness

Dinesh was humming one of his own songs in the next room as Savitri lay half-naked on their bathroom floor. She'd thrown up on her sundress and felt too sick to move. He'd come home from a night out with friends at the annual reggae festival on the beach and…

Shelter for Memory

In the violet dawn, Las Torres emerge from the night, spectral. A three-quarter moon fades by degrees, its ghostly glow gradually dimming between the transitioning light and ephemeral clouds, vanilla, periwinkle. Conversations thin in the narrow two track, mud crusted with frost, the wheat-like grasses grey and bent beneath the…

Sylvie, Alone

Sylvie was sixteen when she met him, and very quickly he became her life. She had been quite bored when he came along, so part of it was finally having something to do with herself, but another part of it was his eyes and his mouth and the way he'd…

My Turn

He was pressed up against somebody else and I wanted it to be me. She was saying “no, no,” and trying to squirm away in her stilettos as he pushed himself into her against the wall, breathing beer breath into her cleavage, his eyes hungry and drooping. He was trying…

In the Dust

Neicey walked down the familiar street. Nothing had changed much in the five years since she'd been kidnapped to the cold, remote world of Michigan from the Louisville she still loved and would always think of home. She hadn't really been kidnapped, she just liked to think of it that…

Crossing the Swamp

The swamp is alive. It speaks to me in the language of yellow galoshes slap-squish-sloshing through thick mud. The swamp is a serenade, it buzzes, ribbets, and plonks as I skirt it, too closely, Mama always says. I want to know how close I can get without losing one of…

A New Map of the World

Mahmood leans against a low wall and closes his eyes. He listens again to the sounds around him, lets his ears travel to their furthest thinnest points, and then the sound of it comes to him, his homeland prayer, and it sings to him, higher and higher, a repeating throb,…

A Murder of Crows

“I have to tell you about Granddad,” Mama starts and sucks down air. Blows air out like a stuck valve unstuck. She pulls me to her lap, tucks my hair behind my ear. I yank the neck of my white nighty, the one I cut the lace off of because…

Ask Again Later

Soon after I turned 13, my mom convinced my dad to have a swimming pool installed in our backyard. Not a squatty, aboveground pool, but an honest-to-goodness sunken pool with a diving board. We lived in Ohio, so it wasn't a practical purchase, and Dad only agreed to the pool…

Watermelon Juice

When I was seven years old, Mama gave me a little seed, dropped it like a snowflake into in my chubby hand. Back then, I was a giddy little girl who wore tattered jean overalls everyday, over a stained white shirt and hole-riddled sneakers. My hair was a brownish sandy…

Anointed

I think it started then—the day I killed my dog. Bumpy sat between us on the silver metal table, his liquid brown eyes curious as he looked from one of us to the other. “He pees in his sleep,” I said. “He's deaf; he can't see. He's senile. It's just…

The Snake

Once in bed, Letty waited for Fred to start. It took twenty-three seconds and then, kabang! “Fred,” she said in a regular voice. “You're snoring.” He rose slowly and went downstairs to sleep on his Barcalounger, which sat a few feet from the front door. Letty waited until she heard…

Michelle Symes

Michelle Symes is a PhD student who has been recognised as an emerging writer in the 2019 Katherine Susannah Pritchard Foundation Fellowship and the 2018 Westerly Writers Development Program. Michelle has been shortlisted and longlisted for Australian short story competitions and published in Westerly and the Review of Australian Fiction.…

Liza Stewart

Liza Stewart is an MFA candidate in the Fiction Program at Columbia University. Current projects include a near-future speculative fiction novel on American politics; a memoir of vignettes based on her time in South America; and a novel which explores one family's relationship to activism. She is a career educator…

Quinn Rilla Squyres

Quinn Rilla Squyres is a New York City-based writer and singer/songwriter. She holds a B.A. in music from Columbia University.

Sadie Rittman

Sadie Rittman was born in New York, grew up in Singapore, and most recently lived in a treehouse in Hawaii. Sadie graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College in 2016, where she studied religion and anthropology and wrote her thesis on elves in Iceland. She was awarded the Jesse H.…

Debayani Kar

Debayani Kar is a cis, queer and South Asian writer, performer and storytelling strategist who makes her home between the US and India. Her family is originally from India and Bangladesh and she grew up in Knoxville, TN. Debi's recent artistic endeavors include writing and performing two full-length solo plays…

Anne Gudger

Anne Gudger is a Portland essay/memoir writer who asks questions, writes hard, loves harder. Her words can be found at Real Simple Magazine, The Rumpus, Slippery Elm, Tupelo Press, Atticus Review, Timberline Review, and elsewhere. She has won essay contests from New Millennium Writings, Hippocampus, and Willamette Writers. She lives…

Renee Flemings

Reneé Flemings' short stories include “In the Dust”, “The Gift”, “Her Place”, “Cool Enough”, and “Blowing Off Steam”. As a playwright her work includes Strange Weather , which has had readings at Roundabout Theatre Company (NYC), New Federal Theatre, The New Professional Theatre's Centenary Theatre and Run of the Mill…

Celine Fitzpatrick

Celine Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based author in pursuit of a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University. Though her speciality is short-form fiction, her approach to writing is interdisciplinary, with her screenplays and teleplays informing her prose, and vice versa. Her stories have won the Edwin L. Shuman Award…

Lisa Ferranti

Lisa Ferranti holds a BA in English from the University of Akron and writes and works in marketing. Her fiction has been a Top 25 finalist in a Glimmer Train Family Matters contest, twice shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award, a Reflex Fiction contest finalist (nominated for Best Small…

Haley Creighton

Haley Creighton is a sophomore in high school. She has been writing since she could hold a pencil (though she probably wrote in her head long before that), and the first novel in her debut middle-grade fantasy series is currently in the querying process. In 2018, she won an Honorable…

Margo Barnes

Margo Barnes graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor's Degree in French Literature. Bored with her study of the French philosophers of the Seventeenth Century, she redirected her attentions to the more interesting and lucrative fields of corporate public affairs. Her most recent position was as senior vice president of…

Barbara Milton

I have published three stories in the Paris Review, one of which won a Pushcart Prize and was also published in the Pushcart anthology Love Stories for the Time Being . I've published stories in the North American Review, the Apalachee Quarterly, The Adirondack Review, and several other literary magazines.…