Posted on November 6, 2023
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Selected for The Best American Essay 2024: Storm Damage by Anne Marie Todkill
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Introduction
Creative Nonfiction
82 Catherine Lewis: Twenty-Minute Workout: Crushing a Crush
Fiction
20 Paul Luckhart: Salt Flats
33 Sheila McClarty: Two Days in Oliver’s Grief
56 Alexander Carey: Sponge
71 Melody Sun: Shiroi Koibito
95 Jack Wang: The Jump
Poetry
27 Matthew Tierney: Two Poems
29 Melinda Burns: Saved
30 David Ly: Two Poems
32 Sara Truuvert: You Grew an Orange
45 Bryn Harris: Two Poems
47 Allison LaSorda: Southern Ontario Hymn
48 Antonia Pozzi (Trans. Amy Newman): Three Poems
62 Christine Wu: Three Poems
66 Jen McClanaghan: Three Poems
70 Mary Dean Lee: Gathering Stones on Grand Manan Island
85 Annick MacAskill: Two Poems
87 Rob Taylor: Four Poems
92 Alycia Pirmohamed: Two Poems
Reviews
Contributors
109 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Réjean Roy
Fall Canoe Route, 2022
Oil on board. 24 x 30 in.