After a Massacre Joint Third Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry New Poetry by Abby E. Murray This morning, she woke up to mesitting beside her, my hand on herlavender-pajamaed still-baby-belly, a gesture that has calmed her sincethe day she was born. She is eightand I’m not certain I will ever feel her … Read more
The Bones, Of Course Joint First Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry New Poetry by Rob Carney May 29th, 2023 THE BONES, OF COURSE, make interesting litter.Cattle, mostly, but sometimes coyotes too.Go eight days without water, you’re a camel. Do that as anything else,and you’re a ghost, a voice leaving on the windand … Read more
Shell Music Joint First Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry New Poetry by Jennifer M. Phillips May 29th, 2023 Some say they hear the voices of the deadmurmuring in kind domestic counsel, mother, papa, granddad, nan–from the library of old affection,their green-glassed lights of wisdom never shelved.And so I keep listening for you I … Read more
This poem is about how the apple in line 5 is like my heart Joint Third Place in the Letter Review Prize for Poetry New Poetry by Cory Henniges May 29th, 2023 This isn’t ambiguous like that other poem.This will get to the point and be in order.It will be poem shaped and rhyme sometimes.Also, … Read more
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 its sinister shape looks nothing … 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 release, and those who are … 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 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