Winter 2024

Cover Art by Tyrone Mckie

Kurt Milberger

Anthony Grooms Short Fiction Prize

Honoring the 2023 winner and finalists.

“52 Pick-Up” by Anita Lo

WINNER

“Black Light” by George Hovis

FINALIST

“To Deserve” by John Lyons

FINALIST

Fiction

"Buffalo Plaid” by Roy Lowenstein

“Banished” by Ken Harman

“Reparated Tombstone” by Ben McFry

“Where the Wild Goose Goes” by Mike Burrell

“Afterlight” by Connie Malko

Poetry

“Another Evening Lowdown” by Brian Patrick Heston

“Ars Poetica” by Christian Chase Garner

“Brother from Another” by Brian Patrick Heston

“Coming Full Circle” by Daniela Sow

“Faster” by Joanna Lee

“From the Collected Poems of Kermit the Frog” by Brian Patrick Heston

“Ghazal for the Cast Iron” by Joshua Martin

“Ode to Grief Bacon” by Joshua Martin

“Pea Notes” by Priscilla Atkins

"Real Change” by Kevin Pilkington

"Self Portrait as a Blushing Petal, Nestled into the Melt” by Daniela Sow

"The Fish” by Peter Verbica

“To be a man” by Christian Chase Garner