“A House Divided” Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
A House Divided shortlist

Editor’s Note

We’re pleased to announce the shortlist from our final challenge of the year. This list recognizes the poems, stories, and essays that stopped us and made us reflect on shelter, resistance, resilience, and hope. Join us in celebrating these writers, and stay tuned for the finalists next week! 

“The Statue in the Chapel” by Sunny Chung

“Holy Nights” by Jomil Ebro

“The Shovel Shirt” by Aishatu Ado

“Mother, I” by Nikola Marshal

“Clean Hands” by Michelle Oxford

“Where I Have a Home” by Jonathan Ukah

“The Gift” by Erin Winseman

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 holds an MA in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University and is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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