OCTOBER 2021: CONTEST ISSUE.
Cover Art: Kristina Erny, Psalm (Artist Website)
Watercolor, oil pastel, india ink, graphite, and chalk pastel on watercolor paper
22” x 30”
INTRODUCING THE WINNER: Grace MacNair
Yona Harvey, Contest Judge
Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Editors
Grace MacNair
Winner of the 2021 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Kristina Erny
abcedarian for the man who claimed birth control goes against nature
Until I woke
I Tarried All Night
The Lower Part Of A Marble Seated Statute of Hygiea
Fire Watcher
Michelle Bitting
Finalist, 2021 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Emmet Abrams, Bill Bitting, Alexis Rhone Francher
Taken by Joy
A Family History
No one Told Me About Death
Kristina Erny
Finalist, 2021 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Soyoung Kim
San Tto Kki
Rats
In front of the cherry blossom
kimjang
Brianna Flavin
Finalist, 2021 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Tia Factor
First Snows
Postpartum
Mollusk & Spider
Oak As Duir
Spider
Chloe Martinez
Finalist, 2021 Coniston Prize
alarmingly humanoid sheep
the thing about the getty is
Beast Jesus
in the desert
Cara Waterfall
Finalist, 2021 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Mayita Mendez