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Cleaver’s 2024 Short Creative Nonfiction Contest
Judge: Clifford Thompson
Submissions close April 20, 2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1, 2024
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Issue No. 45 • March 2024
*Katie Tonellato, Baby, Sweetheart, Honey
***Sofi Guven, Proximity
***T.S. Bender, Miguel’s Sancho
***Julian Shendelman, Suspension Points
Kim Magowan, The Back Nine
Nicole Brogdon, The Pod
*Sofia Drummond-Moore, Exhume
*Ariana Kelly, At Elevation
*Darcy Lohmiller, A Sudden Gust Of Wind
***Rachel Toliver, On what used to be the R7, on what used to be the R8, on what used to
Susan Goslee, Ligertown: Heraldic attitude
Jess Yuan, Aquaculture Quartet
Peter Grandbois, Sometimes we speak to ourselves
*Luke Koesters, Hospice Intake
*Michael Grinthal, They are Calling You and This is What They are Saying
***Sofia Sears, Question 1: How will you become your mother?
Richard Parisio, Fairy Shrimp
Claudia Monpere, Salt Paint
Kathryn Silver-Hajo, Three Microfictions
*Federico Escobar, Angela
Rebecca Entel, How to Drink Enough Water in Wartime (Nonfiction)
*Sophie Nunberg, A Constellation of Errors (Nonfiction)
Sven Birkerts, All That Was Not There… (Nonfiction)
Cover Design by Karen Rile
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***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist