Fall | Winter 2026 ~ city | country

Photo by Maureen Langloss

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Christie Chapman ~ How to Rewrite a Life: “Go West” Edition*

Robert A. Cozzi ~ The Night I Left My Initials on Sixth Avenue 

J. Michael Hays ~ Running Late* 

JoDean Nicolette ~ Twelve Tons of Hay 

Brian Selman ~ Makeshift Happiness

FICTION

Jill Adams ~ Baby Ruth

Noor Ali ~ Spoonless*

William Cass ~ Having to Do with a Young Woman on a Bus in the Australian Outback 

Peter Grimes ~ A Sort of Person

FLASH

Jacqueline Goyette ~ Spello ~ cnf *

Carolyn Keogh ~ Geologic Time ~ cnf

Richard Moriarty~ If You Grew Up There ~ fiction

Kate Mueser ~ Chocolate Waltz ~ fiction

POETRY

K. Tyler Christensen ~ Highway 33 

Lisa Couturier ~ Letter to My Domestication*

Aarik Danielsen ~ Dream Home

Beth Gordon ~ stygiophobia/

Nathaniel Lachenmeyer ~ Natura Naturans

Xiaoly Li ~ Overlook*

Peter Munro ~ Whitsuntide Prayer With Internal Combustion And Sparrows *

Travis Park ~ The Last Farm on Wheeling Avenue

Adrian Sanders Russo ~ bunny’s for sale

J.D. Smith ~ Duplex

Jack Stallins ~ Bird House

John Walser ~ Chronoscope 216: The night front brought cool

EKPHRASTIC

Kelle Groom ~ Plutonium Valley *

PORTFOLIO

Maureen Langloss ~ Artist’s Statement: Trash Is My Aesthetic

Maureen Langloss ~ city | country: photos by the South 85 Artist-in-Residence

*Editor’s Choice Longlist