K. Hari
After I give you the great American novel
By K. Hari / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / at dawn on the balcony, clothesline strung up with birdsong before light and...
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OUR Works
Molly Pershin Raynor
GONEWOMAN
By Molly Pershin Raynor / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry /
Lillian Emerick Valentine
Flood Elegy
By Lillian Emerick Valentine / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / My husband stands in army fatigues and ballet flats,...
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...
Jenna Bly
Slackdrop
By Jenna Bly / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / Montreal, April 2005 The first part ended with a bird and the second part...
Helen Han Wei Luo
The Stone Man's Harem
By Helen Han Wei Luo / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / In the dark desert passage between Yilin and Langtougou, I...
Ber Anena
Visa Gods
By Ber Anena / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / The boda boda man carrying Owino pulled right up to the main entrance of...
Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Diomedéa
By Sandra Jackson-Opoku / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / This is the moment I recall, a memory blurred by nostalgia...
Shayla Frandsen
No, Marty is Not on Instagram
By Shayla Frandsen / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / Mom visited Marty in a dream again. In the dream, Mom was standing...
Lisa Corn
Empty Dresses
By Lisa Corn / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Fiction / On his way through the city back to the old man, Ivan noticed the pattern...
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...
River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
Echoes of Diaspora
By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / 8:44PM, Meijia Wu the last tour bus pulls away grandmothers...
R.B. Simon
The Rock
By R.B. Simon / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / A few years after I left, they tore down the shopping mall. Gentrifying...
Nicole Buzzelli
Love (in the Shade of Midnight Blue)
By Nicole Buzzelli / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / I do not wish to be saved from solitude. Bless me with it, a kiss...
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...
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