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Introduction
6 Brian Braganza: Creative Nonfiction Contest Editorial
Creative Nonfiction
7 Patti-Kay Hamilton: Clawed Back
53 Bridget Wadden: Woods Hole
61 Andy Flanagan: The Smelter — Death and Prosperity
84 Shauna Andrews: Tickety-Boo
Fiction
14 Ben Ladouceur: Reader Beware!!!
20 Courtney Bill: who’s in a name, 2009
38 Maanvi Dhillon: A Taste of the Place Across the Lake
77 E.S. Taillon: The Palm is a Washed Cup
98 Emma Gammans: Sundown
Poetry
11 Maryam Hassanat: The Orange I Promised
12 Chiwenite Onyekwelu: Taking My Father on a Walk After His Hypertensive Stroke Episode
13 Patrick Grace: Heterochromia
28 Jason Heroux: Three Poems
31 Em Dial: Spoonerisms
32 Jose Hernandez Diaz: Hang Loose
33 Jade Palmer: Three Poems
47 Cory Lavender: From Mady’s Bees and Seeds
49 Amanda Merritt: Two Poems
51 Rebecca Geleyn: The Hike
71 Dan Leitch: Two Poems
73 Eliseo Diego: Purple Jacket (Translation by Rhea Tregebov)
75 Molly Peacock: Two Poems
89 Angelic Goldsky: close/d
90 John Barton: Two Poems
95 Rosebud Ben-Oni: Three Poems
107 Leanne Charette: Atlas Materna
Reviews
108 Rebecca Geleyn: Honk for Dissecting the Colonial Archive!
Goose, Melanie Dennis Unrau
110 S. Portico Bowman: The Hunger of Memory
In the Bear’s House, Bruce Hunter
112 Jamie Kitts: T4Tea
Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes), Alex D. Ketchum and Megan J. Elias
114 Dawn Macdonald: Pleasure and Its Containment
The Tinder Sonnets, Jennifer LoveGrove
116 Rhea Tregebov: “My god, it was glorious”
Wellwater, Karen Solie
Notes
119 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Juno (Jaclyn Martinez)
HYGGE, 2026
Digital Pattern
9” × 9”
