It’s that time of year! As is often the case, our contributors made this a tough decision! Here are the Voyage YA 2022 Pushcart Prize Nominations! Congratulations, writers! . Nominations in no particular order: Touching Morning by Susan L. Lin Absolution by David Vasquez High Tide by Kelsey Day Cassandra by Emma Brousseau Broken Chords […]
And the three co-winners are… 1. Men Will Die by Celeste Kallio 2. I Will Never Be Alone by Alejandro Gutierrez 3. Jacaranda Park by Kate Maruyama The Runners-Up are… 1. God fall by Kira Sutherland 2. Parts Girls by Nina Simon Comet Wine by Ken Altabef Us and Them by Siobhan Chesson Men Will […]
Writers spend a lot of time thinking critically about beginnings and ends. These are crucial moments in creating a satisfying story, but they’re also the easiest turning points to consider. What’s the first moment of trouble, the first moment of choice? What’s the final confrontation, the culmination of the character’s desires and needs? Execution, of […]
Jasmine Sawers is a writer, editor, and teacher. Sawers’s fairy tale flash collection, The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore, was recently released by Rose Metal Press. From the publisher: The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore “Drawing on both Western fairy tales and Thai legends, these flash fictions combine the myth and […]
Comet Wine Us and Them Men Will Die I Will Never Be Alone The Painted Child Appetite Jacaranda Park Made You Look She Weaves By Night and Day Bend while you are a sapling Before and After Parts Girls The Problem with Unemployment Offices Godfall Saint Labre
I’ve been writing and submitting fiction for nearly two decades now, and while I don’t have an itemized list, I believe I’ve received about one trillion rejections. One particular criticism appeared again and again: The opening is too slow and the stakes are too low. This complaint began to wear at me like a stone […]
Comet Wine Us and Them Lotus Eater Men Will Die I Will Never Be Alone The Painted Child Appetite A Life Never Lived A Stroke of Luck Together Forever B. waterways The Stain Beast in the Fog Almost Heaven or How I Unraveled in the Mortaverse Jacaranda Park Made You Look Retrieved: Notes from Diver […]
Harper Glenn is an author of fiction. In addition to creating literary works that unveil the psychological, sociological, and economic disparities in poverty-stricken regions around the world, they love vintage books, anatomy, and old cemeteries. Though born and raised in Georgia, Harper resides in Washington State. Monarch Rising is their debut novel. . . . […]
Carol Dines’s new young adult novel, The Take-Over Friend, finalist for the Achevan Prize, will be forthcoming from Fitzroy Books October, 2022. Her recent adult fiction, a collection of stories, This Distance We Call Love, won the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, 2022. In addition, her recent stories have been published in Ploughshares, Salamander, Narrative, Colorado […]
It’s contest announcement time! We had a hard time selecting just eight winners to include in our inaugural anthology! Our community is full of talented writers! Please make sure you celebrate yourselves for taking the leap and sharing your stories with us. We’re SO, SO excited to announce the winners of our Anthology Contest! Our […]
If your favorite thing to do is write, then why aren’t you writing? Think about how many words you’ve written, how many classes you have taken, how many chapters you could have if you only had started earlier…This is your passion! How hard can it be to type words onto a page? Just start! This […]
Aaron H. Aceves (he/him) is a bisexual, Mexican-American writer born and raised in East L.A. He graduated from Harvard College and received his MFA from Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in jmww, Epiphany, and them., among other places. He currently lives in Texas, where he serves as an Early Career Provost Fellow at UT Austin, and his debut […]