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Entering the Mine
In 1923 Diego Rivera began painting 124 frescoes on three floors of the Ministry of Education building in Mexico City. These murals reflect the Mexican people at work, their land, struggles, triumphs, and festivals. Rivera longed for a day when everyone would exist in harmony, without class distinctions. A rooster's…
Elegy for Uncle Ron
You of the acid-blue Palm Springs skies, you Warhol Soup Can collector, you star-spangled tax evader, making America bankrupt again, you UFO-abduction believer, zapped up into one of those intergalactic, metallic wombs during a drug-swathed segment of the seventies, survived by no one, which is to say everyone, let me…
Shelly Cato
Shelly Cato is a 2024 Iron Horse Literary Review NaPoMo winner. Her writing has appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, and TriQuarterly Review. She lived much of her life in the Mississippi Delta and now lives and writes on Mulberry Fork in Walker County, Alabama. When she is…
Em McCoy
Em McCoy is a writer and mechanical engineer. She currently resides in the California Bay Area with her husband and two cats.
Lance Larsen
Lance Larsen grew up in Idaho mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and dreaming of catching Bigfoot on film. He has published six poetry collections, most recently Making a Kingdom of It (Tampa, 2024). His awards include a Pushcart Prize and first-place honors in contests sponsored by The Tampa Review, the Missouri…
The Eyes Go
“To see takes time. Like a friend takes time.” Georgia O'Keefe To see takes time. When I lost you did my eyes go? Are they still in that closet in the dark where everything was clear so long as we were together? There is the fear that won't leave. Not…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2024
Congratulations to the winners of the 22nd annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Elinor Ann Walker
Elinor Ann Walker (she/her/hers) holds a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, lives in the Appalachian foothills, and is the author of Fugitive but Gorgeous, winner of the 2024 Sheila-Na-Gig First Chapbook Prize, and Give Sorrow (Whittle Micro-Press), both forthcoming. Featured on Verse Daily and in…
Serrina Zou
Serrina Zou is a fourth-year undergraduate at Columbia University, where she will soon graduate with a BA in Creative Writing and Sociology. Her poetry and prose have been recognized internationally by the Bridport Poetry Prize, the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize, the Poetry Society of the U.K., the Cincinnati Review Robert…
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
Dr. Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda served as Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2006-2008. She has co-edited three anthologies, co-authored a poem-play, and published nine books of poetry, including The Embrace: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, winner of the international Art in Literature: The Mary Lynn Kotz Award. She is the recipient of…
Jay Aja
Jay Aja (they/he) identifies as nonbinary, transgender queer, and second-generation-immigrant Guyanese. A student of Comics, Jay is fascinated by the confluence point of text and image, how the two in tandem might lead to more nuanced storytelling, and how these mediums together allow Jay to continue exploring the diasporic identities…
R.H. Alexander
Poet R.H. Alexander grew up in Chicagoland and currently lives in southern Wisconsin. He started writing poems at age eight when he learned how to fish and still considers a day of fishing as one no god dare count against us. (It's called “fishing” and not “catching” for a reason.)…
Carla Schick
Carla Schick (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary poet and essayist who received a Certificate in Poetry from Berkeley City College. They served on the editorial board of Milvia Street Literary Arts Journal. Their undergraduate and graduate work was in philosophy and related humanities, but they taught math in California public…
Ceren Ege
Ceren (say Je-ren) Ege is a Turkish-American poet who studied psychology and creative writing at the University of Michigan. After leading poetry workshops for incarcerated youth in her junior year, Ceren's interest honed in on juvenile justice and she is now graduating from Duke Law this May with a JD/MA…
D.T. Christensen
D.T. Christensen is a writer based in Stow, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, NANO Fiction, and Sixfold. He writes about basketball, history and random things in between. When he's not writing, he's coaching youth basketball and exploring New England and its history with his wife and…
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Dr. Linda I. Meyers Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Tenth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
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The Corpse Bloom by Bryan Wiggins
Winner, 2024 North Street Book Prize, First Prize for Genre Fiction
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In the Aftermath: 9/11 Through a Volunteer’s Eyes
Critique by Jendi Reiter What happens to a historical catastrophe when it becomes over-memorialized and under-analyzed—just one more occasion for memes, action movies, annual displays of patriotic sentiment, and tourist attractions? Beth SKMorris's poetry collection In the Aftermath: 9/11 Through a Volunteer's Eyes poses that question about the terrorist attack…
Exits
Critique by Jendi Reiter Stephen C. Pollock's elegant poetry collection Exits is held together by supple formal inventiveness and a thematic focus on mortality. This universally humbling subject inspires not only melancholy but moments of humor and awe at our small place in the natural world. Exits continues a positive…
The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Carol
Critique by Jendi Reiter Best friends in small-town England track down stolen treasure in Jeremy Sherr's middle-grade novel The Noble Adventures of Beryl and Carol, an old-fashioned outdoor adventure tale that updates the genre by making its protagonists two athletic and independent 12-year-old girls. The title characters have been inseparable…
Tamiu: A Cat’s Tale
Critique by Jendi Reiter Angelino Donnachaidh's wise and winsome novel Tamiu: A Cat's Tale is that magical book that's clear and concise enough for middle-grade readers, while containing deep lessons for adults to ponder. In this sense it reminded me of Walter Wangerin Jr.'s The Book of the Dun Cow,…
Here, Where Death Delights
Critique by Jendi Reiter Have you ever noticed the child safety labels on those five-gallon plastic buckets from the hardware store? We have Dr. Mary Jumbelic to thank for those. Early in her training as a forensic pathologist, she wrote the crucial scientific paper that warned pediatricians and parents that…
Circle of Sawdust
Critique by Jendi Reiter When Rob Mermin was a teenager in the 1960s, his high school girlfriend's Italian grandpa shared a memory that had delighted him for 70 years: watching the clown routine at the traveling circus in his childhood village. Even as the old man succumbed to dementia, he…
Bitter Thaw
Critique by Jendi Reiter With emotional sensitivity and a strong sense of place, Jessica McCann's historical novel Bitter Thaw depicts a family coming to terms with secrets that have perpetuated patterns of estrangement. This braided tale juxtaposes a war widow's forbidden interracial romance in 1950s Minnesota and her life in…
The Faller
Critique by Jendi Reiter Michael Demaray's literary novella The Faller is a stark but redemptive coming-of-age story set in a rural community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Logging and mining keep the town's men precariously employed, and violence and alcohol are their go-to methods for grieving. When he loses his parents…
Hillel and the Paper Menschies
Critique by Jendi Reiter A cross between a picture book and a paneled graphic novel for kids, Hillel and the Paper Menschies depicts a young boy's recovery from a brain tumor in a reassuring, accurate, and age-appropriate way. Author Mindy Blumenfeld situates the story in an Orthodox Jewish community whose…
Time Zones
Critique by Jendi Reiter Sven Siekmann's suspenseful graphic novel Time Zones dramatizes his family's attempted escape from East Germany in 1978, his parents' capture and imprisonment, and their reunion several years later in West Germany. Wolfgang and Uschi, parents to young Andre and Sven-Holger, are frustrated by the Communist regime's…
Blood on a Blue Moon
Critique by Jendi Reiter A small-time insurance investigator winds up doing a good job despite herself in Jessica H. Stone's Blood on a Blue Moon, a cozy, comical murder mystery set in a Seattle-area houseboat community. Our lovable dirtbag narrator, Sheaffer Blue, is like Eleanor from The Good Place dropped…
My Boyfriend Satan
Critique by Jendi Reiter Leah Campbell's paranormal romance My Boyfriend Satan offers two of the things I most enjoy in a novel: anti-authoritarian theology and long, juicy sex scenes. Put those together and you get something more than fan service for us monster-lovers. This bold story is a timely salvo…
The Corpse Bloom
Critique by Jendi Reiter Bryan Wiggins' medical thriller The Corpse Bloom, written with expert consultation from neurosurgeon Dr. Lee Thibodeau, plunges Boston transplant surgeon Dr. Brad Baker into a high-stakes ethical dilemma involving complex questions of colonialism, unequal access to healthcare, and the impunity of the rich. But honestly, he…
