POVerty Line Third Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry New Poetry by Deja Jones 14th April, 2023 It haunts me like a perpetual poltergeist From my childhood home to every bedroom and kitchen table. Stalks me like a masked killer creeping But Read more…
The Dangle Unreleased New Poetry by Michael Dufresne Second Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry 14th April, 2023 安時而處順，哀樂不能入也。此古之所謂縣解也，而不能自解者，物有結之。 If you settle with the times and dwell in the course, neither grief nor joy will be able to enter. This is what the ancients called the dangle and Read more…
Data Breach First Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry New Poetry by Darrelle Spenceley 14th, April You ask for proof of my identity demand a driver’s license or passport – not more than 3 years expired I reach into my bag pull Read more…
Everest Second Place in the Letter Review Prize for Flash Fiction New Fiction by Andrew Nest 14th April, 2023 Editor’s note: this story references alcohol. The day of the office Christmas party – that major day of the year when camaraderie with colleagues and alcohol come together in climax. Not Read more…
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Third Place in the Letter Review Prize for Flash Fiction New Fiction by Mahara Heslop 14th April, 2023 It would become known as the Day of the Uprising. No one knew why, or indeed, how it happened, but it changed the world forever. On April first, Read more…
Trashy Humour First Place in the Letter Review Prize for Flash Fiction New Fiction by Andi Van den Berge 14 April, 2023 The doublewide trailer Beckie and I rented off River Road was down on the south side of town and had a pit already dug for fires out back. Read more…
Every Once in a While First Place in the Letter Review Prize for Short Stories New Fiction by Joseph Friesen April 14th, 2023 “I spent the night at McDonald’s,” she said to me across my desk. “The twenty-four hour one on Mckenzie Avenue.” Her blonde hair was dirty and knotted. She bore Read more…
The Coroner’s Version Third Place in the Letter Review Prize for Short Stories New Fiction by Annie Dawid April 14, 2023 The Coroner’s Version “A 10-year-old boy accidentally shot himself and died from his injuries Tuesday in Willits, WY” The New York Times Daily Gun Report In my thirty seven Read more…
Try-Hard Second Place in the Letter Review Prize for Short Stories New Fiction by Francesca Newton April 14, 2023 If you have to blame someone for what happened outside the gallery, blame my father. The slug. He sat life out, let reruns of American sitcoms fill the hole where his Read more…
Ghazal: Nature Poetry by Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal January 15, 2023 Field of poppies, brimming saucers, wildflowers of nature.The night, a bedspread, thin, unfeeling, dark hours of nature. Foraging lichen and twigs, studious sunbirds weaving nests,their trill in lonely lanes, morning showers of nature. No roots or forefathers to hold hands Read more…