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Simple Operations” by Elaine Gao
One plus one equals two. / Black hair plus yellow skin equals Chinese, / who take your orange chicken order / and owns the best massage parlor. / But there’s no place else for your forehead’s crease.
“Rippling Song Of Scars“ by Chinecherem Enujioke
my mother tells me to be patient/that all troubled /waters will calm/that even shards of a broken mirror are all mirrors
“Skin Too Thick” by Fadrian Adrian Bartley
let them know that giants cannot crush the rain with bare hands. / or sweep away the river with their lashes.
“Mr. Carter’s Women” by Ananda Kumar
Your daughter is a prodigy, your granddaughter is a leading virologist, and your great-granddaughter is a Picasso in the making. Look at what you have made, Mr. Carter!
“Boys of the Savanna“ by Chinedu Gospel
There's a God. And there are / voices that whir from beneath / the turf —angels, ancestors. Our boys
“A Country of Bone & Medieval Rot” by Nnadi Samuel
an uproar of dead relatives, tearing through dust. / my father turns in his grave. / "Lord, how many headstones make a cemetery?"
“Snowflakes of Yesterday” by Sam Safavi-Abbasi
today a soldier died. / today, someone’s son, a daughter. / today, someone’s blood, / under the unborn blossoms- / today, the trees.
“Breaking Down” by Meenakshi Bhatt
Why doesn’t nature endow us, humans, with the same capacity to intermittently shed our excessive burdens? Why are we obsessed with incessant growth and constant productivity?
“Red” by DMT
and so / with their pitchforks they came / with their leashes and cages / with their bibles, for ages
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.