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CONTENTS
 
POETRY
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, "Under the bed, the monsters grow restless."
Kabel Mishka Ligot, "Duwende Sonnet / Applying for an O1-B Visa"
Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller, "The clock here is quiet" & "As a Question"
Raquel Salas Rivera, "muerto parao"
Armen Davoudian, "Pickled Garlic" & "Perse-phone"
Hala Alyan, "The Length between July and October"
Cortney Lamar Charleston, "It’s Important I Remember That in Order for White People to Study My Life They Must First Study My Body—" & "It’s Important I Remember That a Current Event Is 21 a Current—"
Dan Albergotti, "For Sale, Used"
Kelle Groom, "Useful Everyday Phrases"
Raena Shirali, "The Language of Marriage" & "Charm in Its Southern Variety / Have You Ever Felt So Detached From Your Own Upbringing You Could Sail Away, A Non-Entity Slackening Like A Small Creekwave"
George David Clark, "Ambitious Dream Number Twenty-Three"
Kathryn Nuernberger, "On the History of Disrepair"
Jihyun Yun, "Elegy with Mayfly Sex" & "Diptych of My Great Aunt in 1953"
Carlina Duan, "Wài Gōng Is Dancing"
 
GEARHART POETRY CONTEST 2019, JUDGED BY NABILA LOVELACE
FINALISTS
Olatunde Osinaike, "On Deep Conditioning"
Aurielle Marie, "& Not by Sight"
WINNER
Joy Priest, "My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away"
 
ART
Woshibai, "Fiction," "Interrogation," "Kite," "Walkman," & "Cinema"
Safwan Dahoul, "Dream 112," "Dream 152," "Dream 151," "Dream 8," "Dream 21," "Dream 55," "Dream 73," & "Dream 104"
 
FICTION
Kira Bell, "Mirror Girls"
Megan Giddings, "The Children and the Leg Found in June"
Giovanna Varela, "'99 Celica"
Shira Elmalich, "Next Year in Jerusalem"
 
WORLD’S BEST SHORT-SHORT STORY CONTEST 2019, JUDGED BY ROBERT OLEN BUTLER
FINALIST
Lavanya Vasudevan, "Ancient Wisdom"
WINNER
Kendall Lane, "Savannah Story"
 
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Verna Sealey, "Holding the Universe Together"
John Luckett, "Prophets and Angels Weeping"
Anne Hodges White, "Cut Deep, Travel Far"
Seth Sawyers, "Today Is Another Day in Which We Do Not Hot-tar Roofs"
Rachel Weaver, "The Necklace"
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Raquel Hollman, "We Cast a Shadow, Maurice Carlos Ruffin"
Jessi Thomsen, "Five Plots, Erica Trabold"
Damian Caudill, "Sugar Run, Mesha Maren"
Nicholas Bon, "Oculus, Sally Wen Mao"