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2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Congratulations to our nominations for this year’s
Best of the Net!

Lineage” by Jay Douglas

Only the Gentle, Only the Strong” by Samuel J Fox

Neo” by Tyrek Greene

Peter Discovers Wrinkles in His Shadow” by Shahé Mankerian

(of use)” by Megan Merchant

Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell

Two Eggs” by Rebecca Schumejda

Rapture of the Deep” by CJ Spataro

The Immigrant, 1909” by Kenneth Wolman

Don’t Feed the Yao Guai!” by Colee Wong

For information on the Best of the Net anthology, visit Sundress Publications.
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2017 Bettering American Poetry and 2018 Best New Poets Nominations

Congratulations to our 2017 Bettering American Poetry
and 2018 Best New Poets nominations!

BAP

When I Bite My Tongue I Think of the Year I Was Addicted to Xanax” by Siaara Freeman
She Called Me a Dirty Jew” by Phyllis Wax
This Is a Serious Consideration” by Megan Merchant

BNP

Lineage” by Jay Douglas
All-American Roommate” by M. Wright

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Issue #25 – Queer Spaces

It means so many things to be a part of the queer community. By some, we are feared for the way we experience love and rarely celebrated for our expressions of it—oftentimes forcing us to keep so much of who we are to ourselves. One of my favorite lines of poetry states that “it is the voices that make me pull at / my skin this way already stretched / and scarred too many voices on the / inside trying to get out and only / one mouth.”* To me, this is what it feels like to be queer within too many of our communities. It is therefore vital for us to encourage acts of creative expression, so that our mouths become only one of many vehicles used to communicate with the world outside of our bodies.

Read the full guest editor letter from Alesha J Dawson

 

Queer Spaces Cover Final smallGuest Editor’s Spotlight:
Lineage by Jay Douglas

And Then With a Spin I Am Boy Again by Ari Burford

Neo by Tyrek Greene

The Endless, Pressing Night by Holden Wright

Instructions for Those Who have Learned Not to Cry by Alex Vigue

Fernweh by Tamzin Mitchell

Aubade with Pin by Robert Carr

Lesser Erotic Incantations by Ava Hofmann

My Sweet Little Friends by Cover Artist David Andersson

Rachel Nix Interviews Sam Singleton

Rachel Nix Interviews Alesha J Dawson


About Our Guest Editor
Alesha Dawson
Alesha J Dawson
is the editor-in-chief of Screen Door Review—Literary Voices of the Queer South. She has a Master’s in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh and has worked as an adjunct English professor at the University of Montevallo and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She currently works as a case manager at a life insurance company during the day to allow for her editing and writing by night. She currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her two cats, Pushkin and Bede.

 

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