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“A Familiar Sound” by Sabahat Ali Wani
“The smell of rotten meat was normal. The smell of mud was safe. The persistence of cowardly silence was home.”
“Five Horses” by Tyler Hein
Most everyone I know is stuck in this limbo, of working double to go half. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, having a whole generation realize en masse that we’re dogs stuck chasing a ball that was never thrown.
“Meditations in A Fractured Archipelago” by Alyza Taguilaso
Here is a broken bone. If you stop moving, / it might heal. / Otherwise, it remains / fractured like the earth.
“Inverted Triangle Body” by Arina Alam
I am an inverted triangle Body / Not an hourglass, not even a pear / I don't even fit in the square.
Losing It by Cyndy Muscatel
“I admit I’m a bit scatterbrained. My brain is like a fast-moving freeway lane crowded with bumper-to-bumper thoughts running through it…”
Merciless Mercenary by Goodwell Kaipa
“It troubles me to see mounds / Now as dry as a granite stone / A reminder that you came not to play / But to deprive us of those we hold dear”
Plastic by Hec Lampert-Bates
“There’s a man eating plastic on 6th and Green. I walked past him four times this week…”
No Equal(ity) by Susan Lin
They razed sugarcane fields / to erect the bones that formed / our neighborhood schools
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.