As 2024 comes to a close, we’ll celebrate as we always do: by looking back at the terrific work we’ve had the opportunity to publish this year. 2024 was a big year for the journal. We were fortunate to put out Naomi Telushkin’s terrific Coats, winner of the 2022 Chapbook Open, selected by Kim Fu. The twelfth volume of our anthology released in May, featuring ten stories and essays chosen by the wonderful Toni Jensen. Twenty-four new stories and essays were featured online alongside the three finalists from our first Reprint Prize and eighteen finalists from our other contests throughout the year. There’s a lot in store for 2025, and we can’t wait to share with you, but for now, let’s celebrate the year that was.
“Snail Season” by Emily Suzanne Lever
“Shelter: A Photo Gallery” by Jen Burke Anderson
“Stability” by Jennifer Hildebrandt
“Salim’s House” by Vishal Markandey
“Don’t Stop Now” by Seth Fischer
“Numbers” by Éanlaí P. Cronin
“The Dowsing of Linus Spalding” by Craig M. Foster
“Haole Boys” by Parker Blaney
“Treasure” by Aharon Levy
“Boundaries” by Thalia Williamson
“That Chookaloski Mare” by Ashley Thorup
“Level of Emergency” by Tanya Nikiforova
“Dog Days” by Catherine Carberry
“Broken Animals” by Aurora Stone Mehlman
“Elbow in Zulu” by Dara Kell
“I Am a Tinder Lesbian Holding a Sanding Machine” by Charlie Wührer
“A Portrait of the Lobotomist as a Young Man” by S. B. Kleinman
“Tennis Court” by Devanshi Khetarpal
“Dog’s Death” by Clara Kiat
“Work, First” by Catherine Kim
“The Unattended Moment” by Marcia Peck
“Don’t Smile” by Aaron Rabinowitz
“CHRISTMAS MARKETS, STRASBOURG, FRANCE” by Sheree Winslow
“Rest Stop 99” by Michelle Kicherer
“Adam’s Nose” by Dino Enrique Piacentini
“California Natives” by Kelly Anne Bonner
“The Natural World” by Amy Stuber
“A Geology” by Virginia Lee Wood
“Curious Monster” by S. P. Donohue
“Back Line” by Raf Richardson-Carillo
“Queen of Hearts” by L. Soviero
“Flying Over the Wine-Dark Sea” by Logan Furlonge
“The Two Things Blassie Knows” by Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
“Linoleum People” by Eliza Gilbert
“Feu Follet” by Rebecca Meredith
“The Sisters” by Angie Ellis
“Treatment-Resistant” by William Hawkins
“The Beak” by Robbie Herbst
“Define: Business as Usual” by Kim Ravold
“The Increasingly Unfortunate Circumstances Which Have Led Me to Wave You Off the Highway” by Austin Tucker
“Hurmë” by Melanie Simonich
“The Nightwatchman” by Franz Jørgen Neumann
“The T-Bone” by Shantell Powell
“Quantifying the Debt of Bob” by Andrea Bishop
“At Mr. Ed’s Grave, Outside Tahlequah, Oklahoma” by Christopher Chilton