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In the coming days we will be posting selections from the writers of Dogwood 15, each of whose work was submitted for publication during our contest and open reading period last year. You can submit your work to this year’s contest and open reading period by clicking this link. Below is the table of contents for Dogwood 15, published in May, 2016; subscribe or order a single copy here. Congratulations to all who made the issue! We are so lucky to have come across your work.
Dogwood 15 Contents
Nonfiction
Grand Prize Award: Anna Leahy, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
Stephanie Dickinson, Townies
Scott Russell Duncan, The Car
JL Schneider, I (Sorta) Do
Poetry
First Prize Award in Poetry: Esteban Ismael, the sky-shattering speed of the horizon looming; Subtract : your body gone — missing —
C. M. Clark, Afternoon; Dust. Sand. Earth. Silence.
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, Superstition
John Gosslee, My Body Is a System of Enlightenment
Yolanda J. Franklin, Camera Lucida
Justin Hunt, On nights like this
Ann Keniston, Suggestibility: Transcript Fragments and Annotation; Estrangement Aria; Accrual
Aaron Krol, Nocturne with Legs Underneath
Kristina Martinez, Hurricanes
Kathryn Merwin, Paper Crane; Conjure
Michael J. Opperman, The Garden of Forking Paths
Beverly Potter, Barrel
Emily Pulfer-Terino, Pawnshop
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, We Do It Until We Don’t
Cocoa M. Williams, Jazz Funeral I; Jazz Funeral II
John Sibley Williams, Aubade (Failed)
Fiction
First Prize Award in Fiction: C.A. Cole, Pirouette
Teresa Burns Gunther, Magic Fingers
LaTanya McQueen, The Mythology of the Axolotl
Cover Art
Shaun O’Dell (b. 1968), Jim Uber’s Sunspot and Sun Flare Observations, (2007). Pen and ink on paper, Sheet (Sight): 81 3/4 x 152.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 2010.169 © Shaun O’Dell
