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 out a pair of vintage … 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 anymore, I tell myself. The … 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, 2032, the wigs came alive. … 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. It was the night of … 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 scabs and scars on her … 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 years as coroner of Willits … 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 mind was meant to be. … 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 on new lands.Stories cascade on … Read more