Q Categories Nonfiction Maggie Andersen Queen of the Night Imagine a Chicago apartment in the nineties, the second floor of a three-flat, hardwood floors and smells of cooking and cigarette smoke.
V Categories Nonfiction Claire Hanlon Vanitas Imagine a darkened stage. Here is an everywoman—thirties, dark hair, glasses—sitting on a plain wooden chair.
Y Categories Nonfiction Morgan Roth Yellow Oils in the Mind, Along the Field Like every self-important and slightly suicidal artistically-inclined high school student, I was obsessed with the mystery and pain present in Van Gogh’s solitary life.
H Categories Nonfiction Camille Jackson Homemade Blueberry Breakdown Pie (with Crumble Topping) If your pie crust is too emotionally fragile at the moment, store-bought pie crust, which I'll be using, is just as good.
L Categories Nonfiction Mary Mandeville Last Will and Testament His last will wasn’t written on paper.
L Categories Nonfiction Jen Soong Lullaby It had been twenty-one days since I slept through an entire night.
O Categories Nonfiction Kyle Walsh Open Enclosure This is the iris widening against the shapeliness of matter, the roundness of the eye meeting the roundness of the world.
M Categories Nonfiction Megan Culhane Galbraith Maybe the ‘R’ in the R Train Stands for Revelation I feel holy.
B Categories Nonfiction Jennifer Jussel Baby Teeth Today my mother called from Texas to say all my grandmother’s teeth are breaking apart and have to be pulled, one by one, from her head.
T Categories Nonfiction Donna Lee Miele The Epic of Us (Notes on FilAm Fellowship) Hobbits are in America, bitches.
I Categories 2021 Contest Winner Nonfiction SC Beckner Inheritance “I can help you find the house, Grandma.”
