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Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published creative nonfiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
What They Call Me
by Hana S. Elysia*
First Place
Canaryville Girls
by Eileen Toomey
Second Place
How a Boy Could Be
by Jen Murphy Parker
Third Place
Fragments for an Identical Twin
by Marj Hahne
Finalist
Tosta Mista/Mixed Toast
by Oona Patrick
Finalist
A personal archaeology of sound as told in no particular order
by M. Lin*
Finalist
My Daughter’s School is Closed after Another Mass Shooting in America
by Sarah Carson
Finalist
Fairytale
by Ho-Ming So Denduangrudee
Finalist
Tender Experiments We Could Conduct Together or Alone (Poetry)
by Freesia McKee
Finalist
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published poetry gathered from each quarterly issue.
Wag
by Magda Andrews-Hoke***
Two Poems
by Jane Feinsod***
Summoned to Perform at All Hours of the Night
by Holaday Mason
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published flash gathered from each quarterly issue.
Catsuit
by Cameron MacKenzie
Another Week Left of Grand Rounds with Dr. Webber
by Luanne Castle
Three Flash on Motherhood (Nonfiction)
by Cassie Burkhardt
Trich (Nonfiction)
by Amanda Gaines
Guarding the Nest (Nonfiction)
by Lori Kase*
Ono Chicken (Nonfiction)
by Micah Grotegut*
On the Other Hand…
by Clifford Thompson
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published visual narratives gathered from each quarterly issue.
Read from Cleaver Magazine’s collection of published fiction gathered from each quarterly issue.
Cover Design by Karen Rile
*Cleaver Emerging Artist
**Artist of Philadelphia
***Both an Artist of Philadelphia & a Cleaver Emerging Artist
