Tighe Flatley
How I Learned Victoria's Secret
By Tighe Flatley / Nonfiction / Close your eyes. Think of a Victoria’s Secret store: the hip-hop–infused pop music squeezing...
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Ifrah Yousuf
How to introduce your Liberal Christian White Boyfriend to your Conservative Muslim Brown Mother
By Ifrah Yousuf / Nonfiction / “You have to tell your family about us.” Your jaw falls on the floor. Never thought you would ever hear...
Jack Cooper
I Was a Child When...
By Jack Cooper / Nonfiction / …I learned that there was something shameful about loving boys, especially since I was a boy. I didn’t...
Sullivan Summer
John James
By Sullivan Summer / Nonfiction / When I was 12 Aqua Net was everything. I thought maybe it would be cool but maybe retro but still cool...
Alisha Acquaye
I Dream of Mermaids, Memories, Shapeshifting and Serpents
By Alisha Acquaye / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / ⏳⏳⏳ Imagine my mom as a preteen in Ghana, bursting brown and just...
Emily Withnall
The Myth of the Perfect Victim
By Emily Withnall / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / He’d start fights with me on the rare occasions I tried to leave...
Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede
A Traveling Pantry
By Kosisochukwu W. Ugwuede / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We are speeding toward Victoria Island—CJ, my driver and...
Monica Woo
Memory Dance
By Monica L. Woo / Nonfiction / Slow-quick-quick. Slow-slow-quick-quick. My mother demonstrated the steps of the Foxtrot. Gently clasping...
Melissa Ferrer Civil
A Love Letter to Whiteness
By Melissa Ferrer Civil / Nonfiction / “We talk about the black problem. It might be interesting to see what would happen to the page if...
Lee Price
A Place of Permission
By Lee Price / Nonfiction / My first great performance was also my first audition. I was twelve years old and rife with devastation. The...
Kenny C H Yu
My/sOUR Room
By Kenny C. H. Yu / Nonfiction / My wine room—or writing room, or just a room—was located in an old industrial building. There was a...
William Luvaas
A Cluttered Brain
By William Luvaas / Nonfiction / We all harbor multiple selves. Freud recognized this in his Id, ego, superego paradigm: unbridled...
Caio Major
Transition Philistine
By Caio Major / Nonfiction / Riding in the passenger seat of my first boyfriend’s truck, either shortly before or shortly after we made...
Alan Sincic
The Greyhound
By Alan Sincic / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / We all of us like to believe, now and again, when the body blooms...
Peggy L. Shrum
From the Blind, Peruvian Amazon
By Peggy L. Shrum / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / A tree just fell. It must have been really close by; I startled...
Cindy Dean Jones
When You Used to Love Me
By Cindy Dean Jones / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Nonfiction / And on a day when I most desperately needed hope, when the...
Judy Peres
The Bridge
By Judy Peres / Nonfiction / The passenger terminal at the Allenby Bridge in 1995 looked like any other Israeli government office. Seats...
Finley Williams
Conversations We Haven't Had
By Finley Williams / Nonfiction / I. Granny never talked about her late husband, my maternal grandfather. I know him mostly through a...
Barbara Hughes
Echoes from a Bluff
By Barbara Hughes / Nonfiction / Staring at the tiny log cabin in front of me reminds me of a box sent from a loved one, something...
Jeanne Althouse
Miles to Go
By Jeanne Althouse / Nonfiction / Once I read a book. It was Christmas Eve and Billie could not sleep. I found him sobbing in the hallway...
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