The Los Angeles Review

Final Judge: John Weir God Wears a Hard Hat by J. Dominic Patacsil There comes a rare moment in life, when all else can and has failed, that you may find yourself like me, looking at a Dutch guide named Jan, who ...

Los Angeles Review 2023 Flash Fiction Award: J. Dominic Patacsil

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Final Judge: M. Soledad Caballero night prowlers in fellowship by Waqas Khwaja night prowlers in fellowship by Waqas Khwaja submerged reefs submarine canyons and spiked ridges knobbled full of ...

Los Angeles Review 2023 Poetry Award: Waqas Khwaja

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Final Judge: Chelsey Clammer Life Support by Andrew Wei In North Texas, the place I knew as home for many years, the storms in late spring come down like a hammer. One warm humid afternoon, I stepped outside just ...

Los Angeles Review 2023 Creative Nonfiction Award: Andrew Wei

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Final Judge: Carlos Allende These Poor Mothers by Vera Chan They look like my daughter. Sixteen or seventeen, blonde hair that touches their shoul ders, pale faces. The newspaper runs their photographs in black ...

Los Angeles Review 2023 Short Fiction Award: Vera Chan

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I never intended to go back to my old neighborhood. I’d been visiting a friend in Glendale, and when the familiar exit appeared, the steering wheel seemed to turn of its own accord. I slid into a parking spot in front ...

On Letting Go by Amber Foster

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Of Tyrant by Leah Umansky Review by Shannon Vare Christine Interview by Tiffany Troy Publisher: Word Works Publication Date: May 1, 2024 ISBN: 1944585745 Pages: 80 A Review by Shannon Vare ...

Of Tyrant by Leah Umansky Review by Shannon Vare Christine Interview by Tiffany Troy

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WINGS It’s dusk. Somewhere beyond the clouds a plane flies with its windows closed so the dead don’t see what they’re giving up. “Don’t let the kite fly too high. It can learn to be a ...

3 Poems by Teemu Helle Translated by Niina Pollari

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To the Woman Dragging Her Son Across Water Street Tell me what he’s done, and I’ll believe you. Last week my own daughter laid down on the floor of a Walgreens, tried to ...

2 poems by Sarah Carson

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The dead woman’s photo passed through us girls like a virus, illuminated in our cracked glass phone screens and threaded through our email chains. Her death was tinted seal sick blue, tinged darker around the corners ...