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Issue 57 Out / With Contest Winners!

Big news today: Issue 57 is out online! You can read it at

The issue features our 2025 fiction contest finalists, who were chosen by Rachel Heng earlier this week. They are:

Winner: Randolph Thomas for “Voces Immortalis”
First Runner-Up: Anthony Otten for “Image & Likeness”
Second Runner-Up: Catalina Bode for “A House with Cannons”

The new issue also includes work by Nahal Suzanne Jamir, John Salter, Montserrat Andrée Carty, Michael Deagler, Augustine Blaisdell, Jules Wernersbach, and more. The print edition, featuring all the same work, will be available in late summer or fall.