Awards 2005 Volume 2 Issue 5
 

FICTION

 

Prizewinners:

 

Alan Elyshevitz,
winner
Tribes

 

Aaron Pell,
honorable mention
Getting Involved

 

Other stories in this issue:

 

Tobias Seamon
Handcuffed to Bed in an Open Window in April

 

Jenny Steele
Lake Powell

 

POETRY

 

Prizewinners:

 

Patricia S. Hohl,
winner
Verisimilitude

 

Carol Gilbertson,
honorable mention
Jury Duty

 

Mary MacGowan,
honorable mention
A Pedicurist Bowing
Before a Goddess

 

Other poems in this issue:

 

Jay Adler
Interstate

 

Jill E. Anderson
Scalpel

 

Barry Ballard
Tilting from the Shoreline

 

Ash Bowen
Kaleidoscope
Lexicons

 

Nicole Cooley
Landscape with Sympathetic Magic

 

N.M. Courtright
The Eighteenth Century
The Earth Spins, Too, and We Don’t Even Notice

 

Brent Fisk
Geography 101
Lightning Strike

 

Sheldon Flory
The Way Home

 

D.R. Goodman
Autumn in a Place Without Winter

 

Andrew Gottlieb
Amaryllis

 

David Koehn
After a Migraine

 

Andrew Kozma
Dedicatory Letter

 

Erin K. Lambert
Some Sundays

 

Lyn Lifshin
I Think of My Grandfather

 

Claudia Mon Pere
Seamless

 

Maurice Oliver
At Last the Air So Steep
Ratio or Volume

 

James Owens
To Begin

 

Liza Porter
Trains

 

Rhonda C. Poynter
Child

 

Steven Schroeder
Two Fish Stories

 

Christina Trout
Light Laughter

 

Angela Vogel
Medicine Chests

 

Daniel J. Weeks
Seaweed in the Ocean of the Sky

 

James R. Whitley
No One Sleeps

 

Martin Willitts, Jr.
Letters to Emperor Hirohito and Unreturned Responses

 

2005 CONTEST FINALISTS:

 

Robert L. Brimm
poem,
Hard Times

 

Sheldon Flory
poem,
Maine, 1963: Total Eclipse

 

Carol Gilbertson
poem,
Setting Out

 

Lois Lewandowski
fiction,
The River Man

 

Dzvinia Orlowsky
poem,
Losing My Hair

 

Michell Ross
fiction,
Ventriloquy

 

Joris Soeding
poem,
The Pope and Rendition
Without a Count

 

Judith Skillman
poem,
Salt

 

ART

 

Josh Kryshka
Coney Island [cover art]

 

Book Reviews:

 

Amanda Auchter
Opalescence by Judith Skillman

 

Todd Dillard
Epicenter by Wendy Wisner

 

Lacy Johnson
Crush by Richard Siken