OCTOBER 2022: CONTEST ISSUE.
Cover Art: Nicholas Galanin, Space Invaders, 2013 (Artist Website, Instagram, Twitter)
Hides, ink, paint, 45 x 54”

INTRODUCING THE WINNER: Amy Miller

Dorianne Laux, Contest Judge

Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Editors 

Amy Miller

Winner of the 2022 Coniston Prize

Artwork by Angus McEwan

The Visible Woman

Valium

On the Tennis Court

The Church of the Surgeon

Re-Radiance

Kenzie Allen

Finalist, 2022 Coniston Prize

Artwork by Nicholas Galanin

IN WHICH I AGREE TO A SELECTIVE REDUCTION CONSULT IN CASE OF MEDICAL RISK

IN WHICH I’M TOLD I HAVE MANY

—In Which We Begin, Again

Jessamyn Duckwall

Finalist, 2022 Coniston Prize

Artwork Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

sweetness

when I am foolish enough to believe in god

a threshold crossed cannot be uncrossed

luteal & feeling religious—

dear (little church girl),

Jenny Grassl

Finalist, 2022 Coniston Prize

Artwork by Pamela Lawton

Meme Mori

briar Rose As Hysteric At The End Of The World

Solo

Tarot For Climate

Pastimes of the Lord

Abi Pollokoff

Finalist, 2022 Coniston Prize

Artwork by Robert Minervini

these our vicious altars:

this our speculative reflex:

this our hideous intuitions:

this our sublime hauntings:

these our holy anticipations:

[Contributors]