Catalog
The first counselor arrives, slipping out of a dark winter coat. He’s dressed in a dark suit and tie, white shirt starched and stiff. The rest of us arrive, the girls I grew up with, playing jump ...
2021 LAR Short Fiction Award Winner: Marilyn Abildskov
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
Mammy Mary Says
Your Best Friend and you are on your way to her house. It’s a bit cold and you’re both wearing earmuffs. She lives in the Council Estate closest to your Primary School. You do think ...
2021 LAR Creative Nonfiction Award Winner: Lauren Foley
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Eight Arms to Hold You
The first time you asked me to take off my shirt over the internet, I did so and a pea-sized spider fell out. I was surprised, but also not. Summer brings them out in abundance, ...
2021 LAR Flash Fiction Award Winner: Leanne Dunic
Award Winners, Flash Fiction, LAR Online
Devotional
after covid
I prepare my heart for
you. I unlash my ankles
from my bone, interlace
spine and rib. The same magic
that found you, replaced
you. Willow reeds, green
shoots ...
2021 LAR Poetry Award Winner: Nellie Le Beau
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Second runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
I covered my eyes. I hid in the circular clothing racks. I trimmed off a small portion ...
ways to disappear by Tarah Knaresboro
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
Coyote appears.
“We leave tomorrow. Please be ready.”
“And the storm? This ...
El Coyote by Micheal Sarabia
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction.
Final Judge: Aimee Liu
Jamel Myles is gone and it has taken me over a year to write about it.
Jamel Myles is gone and ...
Notes Towards an Elegy by Keegan Lawler
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of nonfiction.
Final Judge: Aimee Liu
Bored with straight-laced Israeli mores, I was determined to have sex with M. Tonight. I slipped on an ...
Graduate Studies in Hebrew by Sue William Silverman
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction.
Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol
It tugs at my nipple. Only the first pull is uncomfortable, then it finds its rhythm. I ...
Put A Teat In It! by Jennifer Lewis
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
