Winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Review Nonfiction Award, judged by Chelsey Clammer
What I loved most about this essay was how I had to take a number of pauses while reading it so I could catch my breath before diving into ...
One Story, Seven Times by Anne Royan
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Winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Review Poetry Award, judged by t'ai freedom ford
The intimacy of the imagery resonated and lingered long after I'd left the poem.
The beauty of the poem for me is in its economy---the ability ...
Temescal Wash & Dry by Samantha Niedzielski
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Winner of the 2017 Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award, judged by Siel Ju
Distant father, lonely daughter: It's an age-old trope, but the author's emotion comes through. I admired much about this piece —the cold ...
Splinters in My Mouth by Sabrina Li
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An excerpt from The Perpetual Motion Machine, winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Manuscript Award (forthcoming, fall 2018)
Every Thursday Skyler accompanies me to my ice skating lesson. He’s a much more ...
Square Pizza by Brittany Ackerman
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This little story is packed with meaning, as juicy and fat as the fruit it meditates on. I love how the narrator’s fascination with the fruit his grandmother calls “Amarillas” evolves over the course of the story ...
The Christening of the Fruit by Joseph Hernandez
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There is a hazy landscape separating memory and truth. “Certainty” lives in this space where even false memory can gain heft, if it is conjured long enough. Original in form, “Certainty” makes us wonder how we ...
Certainty by Renée Branum
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Red Hen loves myth and fairytale. We were built on the story of the Little Red Hen, so we fell madly in love with “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon.” It’s got thrust and song of secrets and drama, the heft and ...
And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon by Debra A. Daniel
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Sometimes we are told that the shorter the poem, the stronger and more inventive the language must be. But what about the longer poem, the longer poem that thrives in an age of reduced attention and spectacular ...
I finally made it through the birds the birds by Samuel Ace
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Mine eyes are spent with weeping. —Lamentations 2:11
There is a basic question for all fiction: “What made you want to create this piece?” The judges found the winning entry answered this question with a ...
After Henry by Barbara Fried
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