Announcing the Short List of Finalists for the 2025 HoneyBee Prize
May 27, 2025
Huzzah, we’ve finally done it! At long last the team is finished reading and deliberating submissions for the 2025 Honeybee Prize. This included hundreds of stories and essays and over a thousand poems! We’re pleased to report that finalists have been sent to the judges in each of the 5 genres.
And we’re equally as excited to heave a hearty congratulations in the direction of those that made it onto this year’s short list. ↓↓↓
The cure to all the maladies by Jonathan Greenhause Red and Yellow Light over the Top of Houses by Dolapo Demuren Every Room is a Sonnet by Dolapo Demuren Drowned Crawdads by Sara Shea The Year I Carried You by Sara Shea Wedged Together We Are Flying by Reva Johnson Silence bears no fruit by Erwin Arroyo Pérez English Is My Second Language by Erwin Arroyo Pérez Yes, she did by Ashlie Hyer Autobiography of a Violin by Cassie Burkhardt Arouse Yourself by Yin Cheng Surely Every Man is Mere Breath by Yin Cheng The Weight of His Chair by Sam Aureli True Apothecary by Ellie Gold Laabs The Widower Writes from the Shipwreck by Ellie Gold Laabs
Before the Everything After by Jaime Gill & Charlie Rogers Solitary Creatures by Jaime Gill & Charlie Rogers Do You by Alison Sanders While Making Out the Lineup for Tomorrow’s 12U Softball Championship Game by Jim Parisi The Summer He left by Alison Sanders Hands by Pam Anderson
The Leftovers by Michelle La Vone Attack by Ginger Tolman Protocols and Such by Camara Garrett I Conjure My Great-Grandmother and Ask for Her Life Story. She Visits My Dreams and Gives Me a Lesson on Revision by Alayna Powell
Theatre of Solace by Nicole Bazemore Peabody by Joe Cappello Mr. Jensen by Madeline Rosales Take Me Through the Finish by Tom Ziemer When Mr. Boppo Joined the Cohort by Sharon Lee Snow
On the Telephone with Mom by Dean Gessie 36 Hours in Lecce by Anne Schuchman The Laundry Hangs at Noon by Ginger Tolman
Stay tuned to learn the results of the contest and who the judges selected as the winners.
If you missed sending work for the prize this year (or even if you didn’t), there’s always another chance just around the next bend. And, we’re always open. Click here to give us a go. ↓↓↓
As a reminder, we nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions and… YES we are a paying market! ($60 per piece published in the seasonal issue, $25 per piece published in Micro Monday, $50 for cover art).
Your work will be handled with care and read by at least two (typically three or more) members of our editorial team.
⭐ Thank you to everyone who sent work for this year’s prize! Winners and finalists along with our esteemed judges are listed below. ⭐
Winner selected by Julia Kolchinsky: Autobiography of a Violinby Cassie Burkhardt
Editor’s Choice: Red and Yellow Light over the Top of Houses by Dolapo Demuren The Year I Carried You by Sara Shea Arouse Yourself by Yin Cheng True Apothecary by Ellie Gold Laabs The Widower Writes from the Shipwreck by Ellie Gold Laabs
Winner selected by Tom Paine: While Making Out the Lineup for Tomorrow’s 12U Softball Championship Game by Jim Parisi
Editor’s Choice: The Summer He Left by Alison Sanders Solitary Creatures by Charlie Rogers & Jaime Gill
Winner selected by Kristine Langley Mahler: I Conjure My Great-Grandmother and Ask for Her Life Story. She Visits My Dreams and Gives Me a Lesson on Revision by Alayna Powell
Editor’s Choice: The Leftovers by Michelle La Vone
Winner selected by Michael Czyzniejewski: When Mr. Boppo Joined the Cohort by Sharon Lee Snow
Editor’s Choice: Take Me Through the Finish by Tom Ziemer
Winner selected by Brenna Womer : The Laundry Hangs at Noon by Ginger Tolman
Editor’s Choice: 36 Hours in Lecce by Anne Schuchman
2025 Finalists:
Poetry:
The cure to all the maladies by Jonathan Greenhause Red and Yellow Light over the Top of Houses by Dolapo Demuren Every Room is a Sonnet by Dolapo Demuren Drowned Crawdads by Sara Shea The Year I Carried You by Sara Shea Wedged Together We Are Flying by Reva Johnson Silence bears no fruit by Erwin Arroyo Pérez English Is My Second Language by Erwin Arroyo Pérez Yes, she did by Ashlie Hyer Autobiography of a Violin by Cassie Burkhardt Arouse Yourself by Yin Cheng Surely Every Man is Mere Breath by Yin Cheng The Weight of His Chair by Sam Aureli True Apothecary by Ellie Gold Laabs The Widower Writes from the Shipwreck by Ellie Gold Laabs
Short Fiction:
Theatre of Solace by Nicole Bazemore Peabody by Joe Cappello Mr. Jensen by Madeline Rosales Take Me Through the Finish by Tom Ziemer When Mr. Boppo Joined the Cohort by Sharon Lee Snow
Flash Fiction:
Before the Everything After by Jaime Gill & Charlie Rogers Solitary Creatures by Jaime Gill & Charlie Rogers Do You by Alison Sanders While Making Out the Lineup for Tomorrow’s 12U Softball Championship Game by Jim Parisi The Summer He left by Alison Sanders Hands by Pam Anderson
Flash Creative NonFiction:
The Leftovers by Michelle La Vone Attack by Ginger Tolman Protocols and Such by Camara Garrett I Conjure My Great-Grandmother and Ask for Her Life Story. She Visits My Dreams and Gives Me a Lesson on Revision by Alayna Powell
Short Creative Nonfiction:
On the Telephone with Mom by Dean Gessie 36 Hours in Lecce by Anne Schuchman The Laundry Hangs at Noon by Ginger Tolman
Contest Details:
Up to fifteen finalists in poetry and three to six in each of the other genres – short fiction, flash fiction, short creative nonfiction, and flash creative nonfiction – were selected as finalists by our current editorial teams and sent to our guest judges who will select a winner. The judges this year are Julia Kolchinsky (poetry), Brenna Womer (short cnf), Kristine Langley Mahler (flash cnf), Michael Czyzniejewski (flash fiction), and Tom Paine (short fiction). More about them below.
The winning entry in each of the five categories will receive $300, publication in our summer 2025 issue, and a jar of honey from a Midwest apiary. 🍯 Other select finalists will also be invited to be published in the issue with an honorarium of $75.
Meet the 2025 Judges…
Poetry:
Julia Kolchinsky is the author of four poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother, Don’t Touch the Bones, 40 WEEKS, and PARALLAX (The University of Arkansas Press, 2025) finalist for the Miller Williams Prize. Her poems have appeared in POETRY, American Poetry Review, and Ploughshares, with nonfiction in Brevity, Shenandoah, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is at work on a collection of linked lyric essays about parenting her neurodiverse child and the end of her marriage under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia’s birthplace. She is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Denison University.
Short Creative Nonfiction:
Brenna Womer (she/they) is a queer, childfree, Latine prose writer and poet and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno. She’s the author of the full-length, mixed-genre collections Unbrained (FlowerSong Press, 2023) and Honeypot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), as well as the chapbooks Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2018) and cost of living (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in North American Review, Indiana Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.
Flash Creative Nonfiction:
Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of three nonfiction books: A Calendar Is a Snakeskin (Autofocus, 2023), Curing Season: Artifacts (WVU Press, 2022), and Teen Queen Training (forthcoming with Autofocus, 2026). Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council and Art at Cedar Point and twice named Notable in Best American Essays. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie, Kristine makes her home outside Omaha, Nebraska. She is the director of Split/Lip Press.
FlashFiction:
Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of four collections of stories, most recently The Amnesiac in the Maze (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Moon City Press and Moon City Review, as well as Interviews Editor of SmokeLong Quarterly. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and two Pushcart Prizes.
ShortFiction:
TOM PAINE’s fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Zoetrope, Boston Review, The New England Review, The O. Henry Awards and twice in the Pushcart Prize. His first collection, Scar Vegas (Harcourt), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pen/Hemingway finalist. A graduate of Princeton and the Columbia MFA program, he is a professor in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire.
We are offering free subs today and through the end of May…
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Why? Because we love spring and we love summer, and we love reading poems and essays and strange stories by wonderful writers, even ones with spiders.
Because we are done reading for this year’s HoneyBee Prize and are anxiously awaiting results from the five judges. And because we don’t want that pesky $3 fee to cause people to hold any grudges.
Too much? OK. Maybe we’re doing it because we can.
Guidelines are available on our submission page and the form to send work is available on Submittable (be sure to select the fee-free option, unless you want to give us moneys, which is OK too).
As a reminder, we nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions and… YES we are a paying market! ($60 per piece published in the seasonal issue, $25 per piece published in Micro Monday, $50 for cover art).
Your work will be handled with care and read by at least two (typically three or more) members of our editorial team.
Spring has sprung here in Omaha and, after the last few snow doozies, we (and the trees) are ready. We’re ready for green to take over everything. We’re ready for brilliant pops of yellow, purple, and white to grace every landscape. And we are more than ready to share and celebrate our 5th spring issue!
That’s right, TGLR is officially in its 5th year, and that feels pretty fantastic. Five years of reading and collaboration, learning and growth, and five years of publishing amazing work. This issue is no exception. It’s the picture-perfect example of what we’re all about.
Yes, friends, today is the day! The big reveal of Issue #19. We’re delighted to introduce the pieces and their creators, and to celebrate this bountiful collection…
In the short creative nonfiction space, we’re honored to feature two pieces centered around one of the most difficult circumstances any person will face in their lifetime: the loss of a parent.
“You Come Now You Leave Now” by Ramona Emerson deftly captures who her father was as an individual by exploring both old and new memories. As these are weaved together seamlessly, they also reveal what she has learned about herself and about grief. From vertiginous to euphoric, she shows grief’s many manifestations and how it “rearranges us.”
Siobhan Ring’s essay, “Space / Time,” begins with an unexpected trip across the country and continues through each phase of her journey as she attempts to be with, and care for, her dying mother during the pandemic. Ring pulls from her family history to tether two stories that show that no matter the time or the space, losing a family member truly means, “nothing will ever be the same.”
In flash creative nonfiction, Allison Hughes explores a different kind of pain in her essay “I Am a Body Lying in the Grass.” It’s the loss of love and hope for a budding relationship that she brings to light in this brief, poignant piece.
Our second essay in this genre isn’t just a refreshing take on body image, but a commentary on how women are expected to feel shame or hide their shapely figures. “I like when my ass hangs out of my shorts” by Rose Marie Torres leads with sass and confidence and we love it!
In flash fiction we’ve got three unique stories that are sure to elicit emotional reactions. “The Next Empty Cup” by Myna Chang, might make you smile through the sadness. “Flying Fish” by Corinne Harrison is likely to leave you shaking your head and then nodding in agreement with what isn’t said. And we challenge you to take a crack at the “Taco Bell Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire” by Susan L. Lin and not laugh or see yourself in the questions. Bonus points if you can correctly calculate the answer to question 15, in “Section IV: The “Are You a Robot?” Math Section.”
Two “must read” pieces for this issue are the short fiction stories which are different in just about every way except for their superb writing and surprise endings.
“Tbilisi” by Sara Maria Hasbun is sharp, interesting story that is relevant to present day social and political dilemmas. Tension in this piece builds with each scene and interaction as it speeds toward a conclusion you won’t see coming.
By contrast Marilee Dahlman’s piece, “Mall Goddess,” transports the reader back to the late 80’s and early 90’s when shopping mall culture in the Midwest was at its peak. She captures the vibe and downfall of this era perfectly as the story of Kylie’s lifelong love/obsession for Justin unfolds.
In our last release we mentioned that it’s becoming more of a challenge with each issue to make decisions because we have so much excellent work coming our way. This remains true with this issue so instead of bringing you five or six, we’ve got eight poems by these seven authors: Chris Lisieski, Ezra Fox, Pamilerin Jacob, Keira Deer, Alicia Elkort, Alex Dodt, and Katharine Jager. Each poem is a heavy hitter worth spending time with.
Rounding out the issue, there’s a full complement of artwork. We’re pleased to showcase “Natural Hue” by Sarah Kohrs on the cover and for the first time, several of the artwork pieces featured in the issue were provided by writer featured in a previous issue, Ellen June Wright. Also included are pieces by Kim McNealy Sosin, Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel, Ferris Jones, Erin Song, Pieter Janaldo, Mostafa Meraji, Albert Stoynov, Juan Burgos, Raymond Kotewicz, and Luke Chesser. More about each artist and their work is available on the artwork page. And the entire issue is also available in full-spread PDF format to read, download, or print and save forever.
With that, we are ready for Issue #19 ~ Spring 2025 to run wild all over the interwebs! Thank you for visiting, reading, supporting independent journals, and believing in the arts!
Cheers to Strawberries ‘n’ Whiped Cream, ~Shyla, Tacheny, and All of The Good Life Review Team
Issue #19 Editorial Team: Cat Dixon, Michelle Battle, Cid Galicia, Terry Belew, Stepha Vesper, Tana Buoy, Patrick O’Dell, Tacheny Perry, Ashley Espinoza, M.A. Boswell, David Mainelli, Ciara Hoff, Annie Barker, Debra Rose Brillati, Erin Challenor, and Shyla Shehan
Issue #19 Readers: Kim Louise, Amy Crawford, Jamie Wendt, Jill Veltkamp, Toni Allen, Zach Vesper, Madeline Torbenson, Julie Labuszewski, Amanda DeMel, Arianna Ashby, Ashley DeVrieze, and Miranda Jansen.
Today, and for the first time ever, we’re tossing our proverbial hat into the “Best Small Fictions” ring. Best Small Fictions is a contest facilitated and judged by editors at Alternating Current Press and winning entries appear in their annual anthology.
We’re not really tossing “our” hat, though… We’re tossing the hat of these five authors whose stories we published in 2024:
Razia, Raziaby Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar Flash Fiction, Published Online April 12, 2024 in Issue #15
Smoke Break by Cat Casey Flash Fiction, Published Online April 12, 2024 in Issue #15
Veer by Ryan Mattern Flash Fiction, Published Online July 30, 2024 in Issue #16
Regular Headed Calf by Rory O’Neill Flash Fiction, Published Online October 17, 2024 in Issue #17
Levitation by Michael Raqim Mira Micro Fiction, Published Online February 26, 2025 in Micro Monday
We are grateful for the opportunity to support and celebrate these fine folks and their pieces. Congratulations and best of luck snagging a spot in Best Small Fictions 2025!
Despite being late with this announcement, we were actually on the ball this year mailing our 2025 Pushcart Nominations to Wainscott, New York with loads of time to spare (and by loads, we mean like 4 whole days). But it got done… Huzzah!!
As we have been for the past four years, we are grateful for the opportunity to send six pieces for consideration. The following were published in 2024 and we are honored to revisit and celebrate them again now!
The Hammockby Jim Peterson Poetry, Published Online April 12, 2024 in Issue #15
Beaconsby Jamie L. Smith Poetry, Published Online July 30, 2024 in Issue #16
Death of the Mothby Annalee Fairley Poetry, Published Online June 3, 2024, as a Micro Monday Feature
Razia, Raziaby Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar Flash Fiction, Published Online April 12, 2024 in Issue #15
Funnyby L. L. Babb Short Fiction, Published Online April 12, 2024 in Issue #15
The Crush of Duskby Michaela Evanow Flash Creative Nonfiction, Published Online October 17, 2024 in Issue #17
Congratulations to all these fine writers and best of luck snagging the esteemed Pushcart Prize!
The weather has finally taken a turn and we’ve officially tumbled into Autumn here in Omaha. It feels silly that the signature seasonal flavor, pumpkin spice, has been promoted so much since early August that it’s exhausted its reach and we are just now getting into Fall. Before you know it, the posters touting apple and pumpkin drinks will be swapped for peppermint and mocha. But we’re here to hold onto the spice of this season for as long as we possibly can. And what better way to do that than with the announcement of our latest issue, one of the largest to date!
Yes, friends, today is the day! The big reveal of our Autumn edition. It’s always a delight to introduce the authors and artists we meet through the publication process, but it’s especially wonderful when the people are as kind and helpful as this bunch. We’re honored to promote them and this bountiful collection of amazing work.
We’re excited to share poems by Carey Salerno, Marina Cooper, Karissa Ho, Nwodo Chukwu Divine, Chase Dimock, and William Bonfiglio, whose poem marks his second appearance at TGLR.
In creative nonfiction, there are flash pieces by Kiana Govoni and Michaela Evanow and two longer essays by Kathryn O’Day and Daniela Garvue. And because it is getting harder and harder to turn excellent work away, we could not resist accepting the six fiction pieces that are included in the virtual pages of this issue – flash by Rory O’Neill, Andrea Villa Franco, Amanda Siri Hill, and short fiction by Mychal Hope, Deidre Jaye Byrne, and Corrina Chan.
But of course, the issue would not be complete without a full complement of artwork. We’re pleased to showcase “Kunik” by Hiokit Lao on the cover and for the first time, several of the artwork pieces featured in the issue were provided by one of the contributing poets, Karissa Ho.
Rounding out the artwork, we have pieces by Cynthia Yatchman, John Widdowson, Rovaida Saleh, Britnie Walston, Lizzie Falvey, and Audrey Larson. More about each artist and their work is available on the Issue 17 Art page.
With that, we are delighted to release Issue #17 ~ Autumn 2024 into the wild!
As always, thank you for visiting, reading, supporting independent journals, and believing in the arts!
Cheers to Hot Cider and Toasty Marshmallows, ~Shyla, Tacheny, and The Good Life Review Team
Issue #17 Editorial Team: Tana Buoy, Tacheny Perry, Patrick O’Dell, Ashley Espinoza, M.A. Boswell, Carina Faz, David Mainelli, Ciara Hoff, Debra Rose Brillati, Annie Barker, Erin Challenor, Julia Sample, Terry Belew, Cid Galicia, Cat Dixon, Michelle Battle, Stepha Vesper, and Shyla Shehan.
Hello friends. Despite being more than a few days late with this announcement, we are thrilled to reveal this year’s nominations for Best of the Net (which we managed to get submitted just before the clock struck midnight on September 30th).
For those who don’t know, Best of the Net is an annual contest operated by Sundress Publications that is designed to elevate and celebrate a growing collection of writers and publishers who are opening the door to transformation through art, online. More about the contest can be found here.
This year we were allowed to nominate two fiction stories, two creative nonfiction essays, six poems, and three pieces of art published between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. For us, this includes work appearing in issue #12, 13, 14, or 15. With that, we’re thrilled to announce the following nominations:
Selecting the best pieces gets tougher each year. We’re grateful to all of our contributors and want to wish a hearty congratulations to these fine writers and artists for being the best of our best.
Good luck snagging that prize!
Cheers, Shyla, Tacheny, & The Good Life Review Team
Within the waters of Davon Loeb’s The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir, Loeb illuminates what it was like for him to grow up with a split identity. In doing so, he paints a picture of what it might be like for anyone to grow up with such split identities – for a country to exist with such a fractured sense of self. While one side of his family might agree with Langston Hughes’s Let America Be America Again that “America never was America to me,” the other side might not. For bearing this internal conflict, both sides regard him as an outsider – a misfit. The In-Betweens is a testament to perseverance in the face of such divides. Throughout this collection of essays, the heartbreak of rejection comes not only from without, but from within, yet so too does the conquering of such rifts. Through incisive prose and candid reflection, Loeb shows that no one is ever truly alone in their struggle, however bleak it may seem.
In the essay Alabama Fire Ants, Loeb’s many cousins, all staying at his Nana’s house in Alabama during sweltering summers, tease him relentlessly: “I was the white boy in a family of Black boys and Black girls…White Boy can’t jump. White Boy can’t play. White Boy go back inside.” Paradoxically, in the essay The Best Dancer, this same ‘white boy’ is celebrated as an exemplar of Blackness in his small New Jersey town. Loeb finds himself aspiring to be the Black kid his peers expect him to be: “The Black Kid Who Danced.” His very existence seeming “…a collage of a single Black narrative. I wore FUBU, Timberland boots, and baggy pants. My hair was in cornrows. My Walkman CD player housed mixes of my favorite rappers.” To win the superlative of Best Dancer, he had to prove himself against the other contender – a boy named AJ, one of the only other black kids around. Yet Loeb relates: “…in reality, I was more like…those white kids, flattening what it means to perform Blackness, to be Black.” In battling AJ as the school craved, “It wasn’t just about who was the better dancer, but who the cooler and Blacker Black guy was.”
Growing up, Loeb idolized his white father, Harry, and his half-brother, Alex. They were writers and artists, just like him. Their hair was the same consistency, their skin tones more alike than that of his mother’s family. But his reverence was not to last, as their physical absence, emotional distance, and mental health struggles began to make themselves known. Hearing Alex screaming and shouting to himself in the shower in the essay For My Brother, Loeb begs his mother to be picked up, never to return. His mother then tells him he is predisposed to such afflictions, that it’s in his genetics.
The adolescent Loeb is caught between the love he once had and the fear he now feels for his father’s side, and thus for himself. Loeb’s stepdad is the opposite – great around the house, physically fit; a proper Black man, according to a young Loeb. His brother by his mother’s side, Troy, is similar – ‘Blackness’ seems to come easily to them. In the essay Thoughts on Hair, Loeb sought to replicate Troy’s cornrows, only to feel as though he’s “appropriating the part of Black culture that [he] wanted too.” Despite knowing his ancestry, and living primarily among his Black family, he doesn’t feel at home. He is all too aware that to an uninformed onlooker, he could be one of many races, torn between worlds by the world.
In The In-Betweens, Loeb stands as witness to the many ways his family, friends, and country have tried to inform him of which box he and others belong in. He deftly illustrates the ways these circumstances forced him to plant his feet and declare that while he may not fit into tidy categories he is still, despite or because of that, Davon Loeb; that his reflection can still be seen within these dark waters, for within his own body lies the source of light.
“The In-Betweens“ is available now, from West Virginia University Press.
About the reviewer:
Jonah Peretz is a senior writing major at Ithaca College, having initially enrolled as a physics major hoping to study astronomy. He remains passionate about astronomy and science to this day, and recently discovered a predilection for editing and proofreading. When not in class, you might find him expanding his musical horizons, playing D&D, or studying the ancient tomes (Wikipedia).
Introducing Issue #16 ~ Summer 2024, The Honeybee Prize Edition
July 30, 2024
“Haley and Celeste” by Cameron Shipley
Dear Friends and Readers,
Today’s the day!… The big reveal of our summer issue!! It is truly an honor to finally introduce the authors and artists we have been working with over the past several months to bring this amazing collection of work to fruition. It is, in large part, what makes the magazine so fulfilling and worthwhile.
By the time we get to this point, we’ve become deeply familiar with the nuances, voice, and brilliance in all the pieces and are brimming with excitement to share and celebrate!
This is our 16th issue which includes the results of our 4th annual Honeybee Prize. We want to express our gratitude to the judges – Juliana Lamy, Teri Youmans, and Nebraska State Poet, Matt Mason – for selecting the winners and runners-up for this year’s contest. All three were wonderful to work with, generous with their time, and thoughtful in their endorsements.
Of course, the soul of this collection began in the hearts and minds of the authors who were willing to trust us with their words. Without their drive, imagination, and passion for writing, we would not have such amazing poems and stories to offer. This issue features eleven outstanding pieces from the following writers: Genevieve N. Williams, Olivia Torres, Molly Sturdevant, Jamie L. Smith, Ryan Mattern, Jaime Gill, Kelsey Ferrell, Anne Falkowski, Frankie Concepcion, Randy Bynum, and Megan Monforte. More about the winners – Frankie Concepcion, Jaime Gill, and Randy Bynum – including an endorsement for each is available in our 2024 Honeybee Prize Announcement.
Our list of talented creators does not end there, though. This issue also includes some incredible artwork by several artists: Cameron Shipley, Sharon Reeber, Olude Peter Sunday, Muhammad Ashraf, Emily Rankin, Matthew Fertel, and Beth Horton. These pieces were selected because of their style, use of color, and texture, and also because of how their work visually complements the writing in the issue. More about these artists is available on our Issue 16 Artwork page.
As always, thank you for visiting, reading, supporting independent journals, and believing in the arts.
Cheers to Shade Trees and Honeybees, ~Shyla, Tacheny, and The Good Life Review Team ❀
Issue #16 Editorial Team: Tana Buoy, Tacheny Perry, Joel Clay, Ashley Espinoza, M.A. Boswell, Carina Faz, David Mainelli, Ciara Hoff, Debra Rose Brillati, Annie Barker, Terry Belew, Cid Galicia, Cat Dixon, Michelle Battle, and Shyla Shehan
Issue #16 Readers: Christine Nessler, Patrick O’Dell, Amy Crawford, Julia Sample, Erin Challenor, Madeline Torbenson, Jamie Wendt, Gina Wagner, Lea Pounds, Chad Christensen, Jill Veltkamp, and Toni Allen
