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If Tomorrow Never Comes, by Nneamaka Onochie
I closed my eyes and prayed tomorrow never comes, eventually dozing off with Mama's sobs lurking in my dreams.
“Regreso a casa” by Brittany Dulski
Ana bustled around her small senior living apartment downtown. It was a nervous kind of energy; the kind that requires a deep focus on something like removing non-existing scuff marks on the floor.
“Paradise of Poverty” by Olayioye Paul Bamidele
You can tell: the poplars, shredding their leaves / Fruits, unstitching their stems to the floor.
“Behind the Barbed Wire” by Leila Zak
Gaunt and hollow-eyed, they stared through the mesh: people who didn’t look like people, enshrouded by a sickness that seemed to cling to the air.
“The Dream Season” by A. N. Grace
Last night they released The Panama Papers / Now—days months years later— / it’s like no one remembers
“The Music of Birds in Exile” by Ewa Gerald Onyebuchi
mama is not dead / she sits under the plum tree beside my window / she’s a bird with prominent feathers; she's a girl of fifteen
“Glass Ceilings” by Goodwell Kaipa
Sometimes I find her sitting outside at night / Gazing at the stars or otherwise still sky.
“Rose” by Gezani Abel Maluleke
South Africa is our land; / She exhales the salty ocean breeze / She instigates freedom from Robin Island.
Award Nominees
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2025
“The Right to Sit Crooked” by Đặng Thân, Vietnam;
“The Weight of Inheritance” by Irene W. Collins, Nigeria;
“On Walking a Crosscut From Girlhood to Womanhood” by Bella Victor Nigeria;
“The Homeless” by Mohsen Hosseinkhani (translated by Tahereh Safaei), Iran;
“The Ones Who Stayed Behind” by Amal Hasan, Jordan;
“Feathers” by Jess A, United States.
2024
“Instruction Manual: Sheets of Desire” by Miriam Calleja, Malta;
“The Hollow” by Pacella Chukwuma-Eke, Nigeria;
“To Bury A Curious Girl” by Amirah Al Wassif, Egypt;
“Savio” by Rigel Portales, Philippines;
“Nani’s Chai” by Navin Desai, United States;
“Fifteen” by Ana Reisens, Spain
2023
Edward Edmond Eduful, Ariana Lee, Mackenzie Duan, Alyza Taguilaso, Marcus Ugboduma and Simon Thaddeus Tsaga
2022
Joanna Cockerline, Alex Stein, AlfredoSalvatore Arcilesi, Luiza Louback, Joshua Effiong, Kristin W. Davis
2021
Laneikka Denne, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Sunday Obiageli, Esther Iyanuoluwa, Dean Gessie, Ashley Sophia
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2025
“Should You Trust a Fish” by Wyley Fröhlich Jungerman
“These Dark Summer Days” by Julio Puente García
“Men Who Are Strong” by Jon Negroni
2024
“Chamelemom” by Nathaniel Spencer-Cross;
“Green Door” by Kathleen Hellen;
“Quaking” by Kimberly W. Heiman
2023
Tyler Hein, Hec Lampert-Bates, Lena Petrović, Kashvi Ramani
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2025
“The Dead Frog in My Garden” by Twisha Patel
“Between Onlys and Somewheres” by Jozsef Cariste
2024
“Red Red Roses” by Jadi Campbell, Germany and United States;
“Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is Terrorism Against Women’s Bodies” by Nagasha Martina, Uganda
2023
Ian Stewart
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2025
“Mother of the Nation,” by Rebecca Threewit.
“Diving in the Canal,” by Celine W.
“Feathers” by Jess A.
“Our Reflections” by Safiya Lunat.