Letters on it make such a strange word you wonder if they haven’t spelt it wrong. Endometriosis. It seems latin. You read the sentence under it and realize bewildered that you might not be crazy. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Endosomething You cry. You cry because it hurts and your head is burning … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction The Lesson Everyone should meet a D—- —– before they turn twenty. He should be in your past by the time you are twenty-five. He will cost you a lot but, as you are still young, you can afford him. You have plenty of time to recover. … Read more
Acting, at its core, is a noble and important quest for truth, and not all actors will have this same experience. But what I experienced, through my years of training, was a disruption of self. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Emma Haworth is a Lancashire-based writer and content editor/page designer, who holds an MA … Read more
Inspired by Kennedy’s vision of what he called the “New Frontier,” Dad constantly encouraged us to think big and pursue our goals with “vigor,” echoing the President’s words from his many televised press conferences. Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction Mourning Bells are Ringing My Dad was a design engineer for a major … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction For a few seconds I was disoriented, unable to focus in the shadows. “Come over here, please,” Tamara said. I stepped around chunks of fallen plaster and joined her. “Can you see it now?” she said. “Yes, I see. What do you call that big one?” “My … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Nonfiction The True-Life Story of Mari Carmen Flores Aizpuru, Partner and Lover to Famed Spanish Abstract Painter Bonifacio Alfonso. In 1964, as Spain was thirty years deep under the rule of Francoism, a poor painter came to sit at the table of a well-heeled couple who owned a popular … Read more