Silent Spring Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
Window with flowers behind it bordered by pink clouds

Editor’s Note

Our Silent Spring writing challenge asked for work that explored what it’s like to live in the climate apocalypse, and we were floored by the responses. Our shortlist celebrates the pieces that made big leaps, moved us with structure and form, and took the theme in unexpected directions. We will announce our finalists next week, and publish our winners at the end of the month!

“Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex” by Chelsea Fanning

“I Am Tired of Being Laura” by Laura Passin

Inheritance” by Matthew Bartel

“in the end there will be” by Olivia Mulcahy

rootstock” by Elle Eghigian

The Tenth Spring” by Hayley Grace

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Rebecca Paredes

Rebecca Paredes is the Editor-in-Chief of Glossy Planet. She is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is located next to the graveyard, and an alumna of PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop LA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Barren Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and other publications. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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