TGLR: Prize Nominations

Short Fiction: Mall Goddess by Marilee Dahlman
Short Fiction: Tbilisi by Sara Maria Hasbun
Short Fiction: When Mr. Boppo Joined the Cohort by Sharon Lee Snow
Flash Fiction: While Making Out the Lineup for Tomorrow’s 12U Softball Championship Game by Jim Parisi
Poetry: Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O LORD? by Yin Cheng
Flash Creative Nonfiction: the doctor says i must milk her body by Camila Cal Mello

Looking for a Friend by Ben Seabolt
Tbilisi by Sara Maria Hasbun

Creative Nonfiction:
My Mother, the Story-Weaver by Kiana Govoni
The Crush of Dusk by Michaela Evanow
Fiction:
Tbilisi by Sara Maria Hasbun
Babygirl by Mychal Hope
Poetry:
what to make of autism by Tim Raymond
Don’t Ask Me About the Hymns by Ezra Fox
In Defense of Liquor by Pamilerin Jacob
Ode to the Wet Towel on the Floor by Alicia Elkort
Night Sweats by Molly Sturdevant
ephemera 31 by Chris Lisieski
Artwork:
“Kunik” by Hiokit Lao
“Impressions of Waking Cranes” by Kim McNealy Sosin
“Haley and Celeste” by Cameron Shipley

Closure by David Obuchowski
A Haunted House at the End of the World by Autumn Bettinger
Return by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Drunk Husband Crashes Yard Sale by Alice Kinerk
Once I Lived in Heaven by Mea Cohen

Genevieve Williams for A Beginner’s Gudide to Yoga
Annalee Fairley for Death of the Moth

Poetry:
The Hammock by Jim Peterson
Beacons by Jamie L. Smith
Death of the Moth by Annalee Fairley
Fiction:
Razia, Razia by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Funny by L. L. Babb
Nonfiction:
The Crush of Dusk by Michaela Evanow

Empty Nesting by Andrea Villa Franco

⭐⭐ Razia, Razia by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar (Winner)
Smoke Break by Cat Casey
Levitation by Michael Raqim Mira
Regular Headed Calf by Rory O’Neill
Veer by Ryan Mattern

Fiction:
Funny by L. L. Babb
Rock, Shore, Thunder by Maria S. Picone
Creative Nonfiction:
Selfishly, I Planted Flowers by Rachel Sussman
Life Must Go On by Cynthia Landesberg
Poetry:
Mosaic by Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí
(Non)detrimental Reliance by Esther Ra
Obit by Kait Quinn
Why We Cry by Matt Mason
⭐ How to Hear God While Making Thanksgiving Dinner by Charlene Pierce (Finalist)
Those Who Can’t by Taylor Franson-Thiel
Artwork:
“Earth Angel in Midtown” by Sarah Louise Wilson
“Focus” by K.A. Wesly
“Symphonic Notes I and II” by Devdatta Padekar

Soon Jones for This is How the Body Knows
Moni Brar for Migrant Wish

Poetry:
Fire by Bob Hicok
Amnesty Week by R.J. Lambert
To Brother-Ghost on Halloween by Pell Williams
Nikah by Sarah Aziz
Fiction:
Clam! by Jason Arias
Who Takes the Bus in LA by Marc Eichen

Fiction:
Where by Rhea Bryce
Who Takes the Bus in LA by Marc Eichen
Creative Nonfiction:
Backwards and Blind by Helyn Trickey Bradley
Iowa Blues, and Greens by Summer Hammond
Poetry:
For Those of Us Forced to Flee by Jane Muschenetz
The Wax Poem by Andy Winter
This is How the Body Knows by Soon Jones
Migrant Wish by Moni Brar
Nikah by Sarah Aziz
Mugshot by Sara Burge
Artwork:
Blooms of Hope by Marco Aversa
Scarred Beauty by Gerburg Garmann
Ocean of Stillness by Shrishti Tassin

Poetry:
For Those of Us Forced to Flee by Jane Muschenetz
dear sister by Sequoia Maner
What They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright
Felis Ellipses by Jack Phillips
Nanami in the Blue Dress by Jessica Mendoza
Fiction:
Waiting for Things to Die by Emile Estrada

Fiction:
What the Cherub Saw
The Boundary of Fairyland by Heather Ballmer
Creative Nonfiction:
Blinding by Ali Bryan
Nanami in the Blue Dress by Jessica Mendoza
Poetry:
American Diorama by Naomi Ling
From the Stem by Daniel J Flosi
⭐ Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson (Finalist)
Oath of Assimilation by Soo Yeon Chun
What They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright
Your Name by Tamara Nasution
Artwork:
⭐ Within the Oak by Kate (Junehyo) Choi (Finalist)
Mariafumaca by Bianca Rivetti
Braided Platte by Kim Sosin

Fiction:
What I Lost in September by Autumn Bettinger
What the Cherub Saw by Derek Harmening
The Shapiros by Michael Wesner
Creative Nonfiction:
Blinding by Ali Bryan
Poetry:
American Diorama by Naomi Ling
Oath of Assimilation by Soo Yeon Chun

Fiction:
Extra Large for the Lord by Tomas Baiza
What I Lost in September by Autumn Bettinger
Creative Nonfiction:
Read Her Lips by Bryan Starchman
Cohesion Forces in an Avalanche by Kathryn Stam
Poetry:
Waiting to Pee, I Invent My Future by Emma Bernstein
Twi Phone-ology by Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
Uprooting a Tree by Jamie Wendt
I Check the Moon by Caleb Nichols
The Man Whose Face Was Stolen by Clif Mason
Linoleum by Stelios Mormoris

Fiction:
Extra Large for the Lord by Tomas Baiza
Alice and Juno in Hell by Mary Duquette
Creative Nonfiction:
Cohesion Forces in an Avalanche by Kathryn Stam
Poetry:
⭐ Uprooting a Tree by Jamie Wendt (Honorable Mention)
The Man Whose Face Was Stolen by Clif Mason
Flash by Matt Mason