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OUR Works


Rot
By Kristina Kasparian / Second Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / The stench clings to the flickering neon...

Kristina Kasparian


Mother is a Language is a House is a Poem
By Shantanu M / Third Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / The cement tile on the threshold of my old house would...

Shantanu M


Protective Presence in the West Bank
By Josina Manu Maltzman / First Place, 2025 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We arrive late, a little after 6am, and...

Josina Manu Maltzman


I Wish I Could Tell You
By Patricia McGuire-Hughes / Nonfiction / *for Grandma Mac A month after Grandma died, her voice visited me for the...

Patricia McGuire-Hughes


Silent Summer
By Kenley Ellis / Nonfiction / The story of my grandmother did not always make peoples’ eyes wrinkle in pity. It was one just like...

Kenley Ellis


The Bitterness of Blood
By Cindy Sams / Nonfiction / There must have been so much blood. On the floor, on the counter, on nineteen-year-old Patricia...

Cindy Sams


How I Learned Victoria's Secret
By Tighe Flatley / Nonfiction / Close your eyes. Think of a Victoria’s Secret store: the hip-hop–infused pop music squeezing...

Tighe Flatley


How to introduce your Liberal Christian White Boyfriend to your Conservative Muslim Brown Mother
By Ifrah Yousuf / Nonfiction / “You have to tell your family about us.” Your jaw falls on the floor. Never thought you would ever hear...

Ifrah Yousuf


I Was a Child When...
By Jack Cooper / Nonfiction / …I learned that there was something shameful about loving boys, especially since I was a boy. I didn’t...

Jack Cooper


John James
By Sullivan Summer / Nonfiction / When I was 12 Aqua Net was everything. I thought maybe it would be cool but maybe retro but still cool...

Sullivan Summer


I Dream of Mermaids, Memories, Shapeshifting and Serpents
By Alisha Acquaye / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / ⏳⏳⏳ Imagine my mom as a preteen in Ghana, bursting brown and just...

Alisha Acquaye


The Myth of the Perfect Victim
By Emily Withnall / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / He’d start fights with me on the rare occasions I tried to leave...

Emily Withnall


A Traveling Pantry
By Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We are speeding toward Victoria Island—CJ, my driver and...

Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede


Memory Dance
By Monica L. Woo / Nonfiction / Slow-quick-quick. Slow-slow-quick-quick. My mother demonstrated the steps of the Foxtrot. Gently clasping...

Monica Woo


A Love Letter to Whiteness
By Melissa Ferrer Civil / Nonfiction / “We talk about the black problem. It might be interesting to see what would happen to the page if...

Melissa Ferrer Civil


A Place of Permission
By Lee Price / Nonfiction / My first great performance was also my first audition. I was twelve years old and rife with devastation. The...

Lee Price


My/sOUR Room
By Kenny C. H. Yu / Nonfiction / My wine room—or writing room, or just a room—was located in an old industrial building. There was a...

Kenny C H Yu


A Cluttered Brain
By William Luvaas / Nonfiction / We all harbor multiple selves. Freud recognized this in his Id, ego, superego paradigm: unbridled...

William Luvaas


Transition Philistine
By Caio Major / Nonfiction / Riding in the passenger seat of my first boyfriend’s truck, either shortly before or shortly after we made...

Caio Major


The Greyhound
By Alan Sincic / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We all of us like to believe, now and again, when the body blooms...

Alan Sincic


From the Blind, Peruvian Amazon
By Peggy L. Shrum / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / A tree just fell. It must have been really close by; I startled...

Peggy L. Shrum
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