Vol. 3 No. 2 Aug 1 Written By The Headlight Review Cover art: Pegasus Crossing by Dyne Kim, designed by Brittany Files Letters Letter from the Editorial Director Kurt Milberger Letter from the Managing Editor Veronica Pérez Featured Author Excerpt from Salt Bones Jennifer Givhan An interview with Jennifer Givhan Mary McMyne 2025 Chapbook Prize selected by Olatunde Osinaike WinnerMy Therapist Shows Me How to Write in the Affirmative or An Alternative to Writing "Don't Kill Yourself" from Feminine Morbidity Maya Williams FinalistOn the 56th Anniversary of My Father's Death from On a Saturday in the Anthropocene Elizabeth J. Coleman FinalistRex from Chinaberry Constellations: Odes Van G. Garrett FinalistSweet from An Angel and Other Poems Christina Hauck FinalistStill Wondering if You Made It from Our Use of the Stars Jed Myers FinalistParietal Operculum from Urchin to My Shell Kristen Snedden FinalistArs Poetica with Amateur Tarot from Self-Portrait with LSD and Mirror M. Ezra Zhang Fiction edited by Mary McMyne Halcyon Stevie DoCarmo Aab Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh Cairn Rhett Milner Poetry edited by Abhijit Sarmah Scooch Roy Bentley Moon as translated from the Hebrew of Nathan Alterman A. Z. Foreman Pennypoker1919 to His Followers Alex M. Frankel Please, God, in the Event of Dictatorship Alex M. Frankel Breakout Lynn D. Gilbert Memory of Exodus Camille Hernandez final sale: no returns Hannan Khan On the Death of a Queen Justin Lowe She Replants Baani Minhas an "i want" poem about hilarious masochism i. a. peroni [a go phone shivers something important past outdoor seating pints and appetizers] Michael Rerick The Assembly Line Flow Michael Roque Love Song Intended to Stave Off Discontinuation of Relations (Unsuccessful) Dudley Stone ACCESS_DENIED: heart.exe Gordan Struić Shutdown.log Gordan Struić Creative Nonfiction Holy Door Kim Bradley Chaucer's Wives Come Knocking Catherine Temma Davidson Tide Pools Jen Dodge Still Standing Marlene Dunham Are You the One? Loren Stephens Visual Art Two Paintings Mahshid Gorjian Three Drawings Malika Karahi Two Paintings Dyne Kim Two Watercolors Mirka Walter The Headlight Review
Vol. 3 No. 2 Aug 1 Written By The Headlight Review Cover art: Pegasus Crossing by Dyne Kim, designed by Brittany Files Letters Letter from the Editorial Director Kurt Milberger Letter from the Managing Editor Veronica Pérez Featured Author Excerpt from Salt Bones Jennifer Givhan An interview with Jennifer Givhan Mary McMyne 2025 Chapbook Prize selected by Olatunde Osinaike WinnerMy Therapist Shows Me How to Write in the Affirmative or An Alternative to Writing "Don't Kill Yourself" from Feminine Morbidity Maya Williams FinalistOn the 56th Anniversary of My Father's Death from On a Saturday in the Anthropocene Elizabeth J. Coleman FinalistRex from Chinaberry Constellations: Odes Van G. Garrett FinalistSweet from An Angel and Other Poems Christina Hauck FinalistStill Wondering if You Made It from Our Use of the Stars Jed Myers FinalistParietal Operculum from Urchin to My Shell Kristen Snedden FinalistArs Poetica with Amateur Tarot from Self-Portrait with LSD and Mirror M. Ezra Zhang Fiction edited by Mary McMyne Halcyon Stevie DoCarmo Aab Suzi Ehtesham-Zadeh Cairn Rhett Milner Poetry edited by Abhijit Sarmah Scooch Roy Bentley Moon as translated from the Hebrew of Nathan Alterman A. Z. Foreman Pennypoker1919 to His Followers Alex M. Frankel Please, God, in the Event of Dictatorship Alex M. Frankel Breakout Lynn D. Gilbert Memory of Exodus Camille Hernandez final sale: no returns Hannan Khan On the Death of a Queen Justin Lowe She Replants Baani Minhas an "i want" poem about hilarious masochism i. a. peroni [a go phone shivers something important past outdoor seating pints and appetizers] Michael Rerick The Assembly Line Flow Michael Roque Love Song Intended to Stave Off Discontinuation of Relations (Unsuccessful) Dudley Stone ACCESS_DENIED: heart.exe Gordan Struić Shutdown.log Gordan Struić Creative Nonfiction Holy Door Kim Bradley Chaucer's Wives Come Knocking Catherine Temma Davidson Tide Pools Jen Dodge Still Standing Marlene Dunham Are You the One? Loren Stephens Visual Art Two Paintings Mahshid Gorjian Three Drawings Malika Karahi Two Paintings Dyne Kim Two Watercolors Mirka Walter The Headlight Review