Incredibly proud/honored/shocked to have a poem in this incredible issue. Been reading the Kenyon Review since eighth grade. Absolutely blown away to be a part of it. 💚
[2/2] a folio of Literary Curiosities, which features work by Jennifer Chang, Summer Farah,
@ElizaGilbs
,
@MayaCPopa
, and more. The cover art is a detail of Chitra Ganesh’s City Inside Her, from the artist’s Architects of the Future portfolio.
“You are a God-green veil
& I am death’s middle child
& the dog is long asleep
beneath the chickweed.”
—“From the Fort Behind the Conifers” by Eliza Gilbert
These final fifteen stories are now in the hands of Kelly Link, who will choose this year’s three finalists. Check back next month for the results. Congratulations, shortlisters, and a sincere thank you to all of our terrific submitters!
Read here:
“… i.e., Put down that gun, you need a sandwich.”
Stunner from
@marykarrlit
I stumbled upon in Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis’ brilliant anthology, “Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance.”
The shortlist for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022. These 25 stories were selected from 1476 entries by a team of 17 staff. The biggest of congratulations to everyone on this list. You are all stars. Finalists announced next Wednesday.
"When the little bell by the nurses’ station sings, we float from the group room out into the ward’s great white gullet. No better than Pavlov’s dogs, Terry
#1
always mutters."
—Eliza Gilbert, “Linoleum People”
Read here:
A poem for my big brother, who is the coolest, but who also piloted at least three toy helicopters into my hair throughout the course of our childhood.
Thanks x100 to everyone at
@kenyonreview
My full poem selected by the incredible
@_AndresCerpa
for
@FrontierPoetry
’s Hurt and Healing Prize. Unspeakably grateful to have this out in the world 💚🫠
Please join us in celebrating Eliza Gilbert (
@ElizaGilbs
) the winner of the Hurt & Healing Prize, with the publication of her poem, selected by Andrés Cerpa! ✨
Read the full piece here:
We hope you enjoyed ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Contributor
@ElizaGilbs
has a new poem in the
@kenyonreview
💗 Enjoy the powerful "From the Fort Behind the Conifers" here:
Announcing the Long List for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022, chosen by a team of 17 staff from 1476 entries. Huge congratulations to these writers. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your work.
congrats to Eliza Gilbert (
@ElizaGilbs
), whose poem was chosen by Andrés Cerpa as winner of the Hurt and Healing Prize! and to Geramee Hensley (
@geramee_
) and Sara Elkamel (
@SaraFarag
) in 2nd and 3rd!
finalists and long list 🎉:
“The father is a title card.
The mother is the postscript.
You are a pine cone. Welcome to my world.”
“From the Fort Behind the Conifers” by Eliza Gilbert stops us in our tracks. Read it here:
"Take the shoulder of a turnpike
and dislocate it. Trust the image unattended
with a slice of yellow Scotch broom and a chain
link fence latticed with spray paint."
new poetry: "Aubade with Roadkill" by Eliza Gilbert
@elizagilbs
Our Web Weekly feature
#poem
is "The Iron Harvest" by Eliza Gilbert "Soft below the killing fields of Verdun, tumors..." from The Adroit Journal
#poetry
Happy New Voices Friday! Today we’re so thrilled to publish this poem by Eliza Gilbert 💫
“To be a christener you must speak loudly
and know nothing.”
—
@ElizaGilbs
Read the full poem here:
“After the funeral, my twin brother Mike and I go to Grandpa’s apartment on 12th and University to smoke a bowl and watch ‘River Monsters.’”
Check out my flash piece in
@forge_litmag
!
We couldn’t turn away from this grandmother in “The Carousel” by
@elizagilbs
Thanks,
@MariaHaskins
!
"Grandmother pops her tongue. A wad of buttery phlegm hurtles towards us. We shriek, duck, fling ourselves to safety. She throws her head back like a sword-swallower and cackles.”
Congratulations to our 2022 flash fiction competition finalists:
Eliza Gilbert for “River Monster”
Matt Barrett for “The Day My Mother Flew”
Stewart Engesser for “Snow”
Tim Frank for “Life Lessons”
Longlist at the link!
“On the day Grandmother swallowed a piece of the sun, the carnival was in town…”
Check out my flash piece, “The Carousel,” in the January edition of Flash Fiction Online!
@flashfictionmag
This past July, the Sewanee Review held its fifth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction contest. This year we received nearly one-thousand submissions. Today we are pleased to announce the winners. 🧵
Our story of the week is River Monster by
@ElizaGilbs
.
This piece was a finalist for the 2022 Forge Flash Fiction Competition.
Selected by editor
@sebroderick
.