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National Anthology of the Best Undergraduate Writing

Fiction, Volume XI

In Memory of Atlas Moon

Marisa Barnard

Fiction, Volume XI

Swimming Lessons

Claire Doll

Poetry, Volume XI

Oceanic Oracle

Summer Hagan

Poetry, Volume XI

American

Juan Ortega

Poetry, Volume XI

Orare por ti (I will pray for you)

Juan Ortega

Poetry, Volume XI

Staring at My Bookshelf

Angela Vodola

Fiction, Volume XI

Red Snow

Hobson Wadsworth

  • VOLUME I

    The Art of Birds

    Sioux Falls Mill, Benjamin Etten     Cam’s father is a miner. His large hands are defined with rings of dark beneath his nails, rings Cam hears echoed in his father’s…

    0 July 31, 2018
  • VOLUME I

    Cherry Tomatoes

    Number Five, Hannah Kucharzak [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Animal Abuse] Cherry tomatoes grew on the side of the Strayford’s house, near the driveway but sheltered from the cars and the gravel…

    0 July 31, 2018
  • VOLUME I

    Pressure Cooker

    Excerpt from The A Bao A Qu, Zoë Goehring [Trigger Warning: Depictions of Body Gore] DAUGHTER It is morning. She remembers because when the day is bright, the linoleum tiles shine…

    0 July 31, 2018
  • VOLUME I

    This is Not the Whole Story

    Library, Brittany Whiteman [Trigger Warning: Graphic Depictions of Sexual Assault] In the night, there will be a sound like a beating heart and it will be your own. In the bunk…

    0 July 31, 2018
  • Poetry, VOLUME V

    Benevolence, Georgia

    Persephone, Esther Tang     When I think about 1945, I think about peaches. Sweet and fuzzy with a fat, brown pit smack in the center. I remember biting into a…

    0 March 16, 2018
  • VOLUME V

    Graffiti in the Library

    Chalkboard, Brendan Hunt     The graffiti scribbled into the desks of the library intone different levels of cryptic messages. Suck a dick! well that one’s clear.   A more delicate hand…

    2 March 16, 2018
  • VOLUME IV

    Voltage

    Lettuce Hug, Christina Guzman [Trigger Warning: depictions of alcohol consumption] Ivy turned the living room lamp off and back on again for the eleventh time when Hal finally looked up from…

    3 March 16, 2018
  • VOLUME V

    The Newly-Minted Dyke

    War is Over, Ernest Volynec     For what we knew to be our second date We went to go see some spoken word poet the campus had brought in. For…

    0 March 16, 2018
  • VOLUME V

    The Restless Spirit of Ernest Hemingway Inhabits the Body of a First-Grader

    A Meal of Crayons, Bryan Rubin     It is human nature to disobey. Refusing to follow orders is treason, but refusing to follow one’s ideology is treason all the same. The…

    4 March 16, 2018
  • Poetry, VOLUME IV

    Metastasis

    Blue, Linnea Schurig     Dana Scully had copper hair and wasn’t afraid of God or strangeness, but Gillian Anderson’s hair is blonde so maybe I’m not really sure who it…

    2 March 16, 2018
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