First runner-up in the 2018 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Poetry.
Final Judge: Douglas Manuel
Silver flowers—a blindman’s word,
give the blossom, not bullets—
of sugarcane rustled ...
This Is About Time by Naoko Fujimoto
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Short Fiction.
Final Judge: tammy lynne stoner
James labors on top of her. Teeth gritted, brow furrowed: this sort of grim ...
The Killing Jar by Jennifer Hritz
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Creative Nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Crack.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Pop.
I’m in an oven, ready for roasting. ...
7 lbs., 8 oz by Stephanie Wobby
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of Flash Fiction.
Final Judge: Brittany Ackerman
Mother Chen’s fingers ache, cracked from washing feet and floors all day, but still ...
Cheap Mother by Jeremy Tsai
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
If she could not find plastic bags to tie around her wrists and wrap over her palms, she would have to sleep with her hands dangling off the bed, avoiding the duvet cover at all costs, and that would mean a night of ...
Ayna by Seema Yasmin
Award Winners, Fiction, LAR Online
First runner-up in the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Matty Layne Glasgow
My lover comes inside me
& I weep inconsolable. My body,
pressed almost through the ...
Before the Not-Child’s Not-Howl by torrin a. greathouse
Award Winners, LAR Online, Poetry
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of poetry.
Final Judge: Matty Layne Glasgow
See my hands? They strong hands. They hold worlds, they break men
open with a snap. My hands is ...
the blues, reproductive by Aurielle Marie
Award Winners, LAR Online
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of short fiction.
Final Judge: Tammy Lynne Stoner
Let him choose the place. Somewhere familiar, like the coffee shop on the corner that only ...
How to Tell That Guy You’ve Been Dating, Your Boyfriend, or Your Friend (Whom You’re Actually in Love With) You Have a Disability by Lillie Lainoff
Award Winners, LAR Online
Winner of the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of creative nonfiction.
Final Judge: Adrianne Kalfopoulou
I am a “Redbone.” It refers to a range of skin color that makes people ask, ...
A Redbone’s Reality by Renée Ozburn
Award Winners, LAR Online, Nonfiction