Winning Work

Read "In Situ" by Jessica Hincapié, a sobering poem about future grief as the cost of living.

Read "Hushes and Hums in Texas" by Zenobia, a poem about the crushing reality of love and choice in the face of Black maternal morbidity rates.

Read "By Any Other Name" by Bron Bateman, a poem about identity, familial love, and change.

Read "Autogynepygmaliac" by Val Cossey, a poem about self-love, expression, and exploration.

Our Gender Trouble finalist is a hybrid work. Look to the footnotes for an exploration of gender dynamics and fraught roles.

Read "Keloid," our third-place finalist: a story about what we can still do when there is nothing else to be done.

Our second-place finalist is an intimate poem that explores the wounds of war that never truly heal before being opened again.

Our History Repeating finalist, "Patch Notes for the End of the World," is a hybrid piece that uses software patch notes to catalogue generational trauma—and how the cycle is broken.