surprise us | unthemed
Spring | Summer 2026
POETRY
Allan Pettersson Addresses His Critics by Richard Foerster
Self-Portrait as Nighthawk by Julia Ross
Ditto Machine by Anna Leahy
comings & goings by Virginia LeBaron
Postcard to Myself at 20 by Athena Kildegaard
Update by Abriana Jetté
My Father Is a Shower Scene in an 80s Movie by CL Bledsoe
The Chemical Purse by Zoe Simone-Dobin
Scofflaws by Donald Illich
The Cooper River Witness Tree by Mary Alice Dixon
INTENSE DECLARATIONS OF LOVE PREDICTED IN 2026 by Carol Lynne Knight
At Lookout Point Mount Ararat, August 24, 2020 by Kimberly McElhatten
Both Things by Liz Ahl
Today by Ruth Hoberman
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Crybaby by Priyanuj Mazumdar
Artifacts of a Bloodline by John Cheesebrow
Proximate Causation by David L. Engelhardt
Saoirse by Sean Thomas Dougherty
When a Choice Is Not a Choice by J. Palmer
FICTION
The Intersection by Eric Notaro
Territory by Rachel Hall
The Blues by Ellen Birkett Morris
Tigers by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
FLASH
Clocking In by Robert Garner McBrearty (fiction)
Pride and Provenance by Casey Liston (fiction)
A Shooting in Manhattan by AJ Atwater (fiction)
I told you about how I accidentally fell in Fern Lake… by Jessica Mendlik (nonfiction)
Square Pumpkins by Anne Panning (fiction)
Mosaic by Kris Faatz (fiction)
PORTFOLIO
Photographs by Brian Bouldrey
My March Melt Diary, an essay by South 85 Artist-in-Residence, Brian Bouldrey
Announcement of Editor’s Choice Award longlist and winner to come.