Spring ’25 (vol. XXXIII) Table of Contents

Storytellers Competition Winners

Fiction

1st Place: Benya Wilfret

What We Leave Unsaid

2nd Place: Julia Burnette

A Cup of Soup

3rd Place: Ethan MacLaren

In Absence

Poetry

1st Place: Grace Garney

Gaia’s Final Plea

2nd Place: Benya Wilfret

Hymn Sung Backwards

3rd Place: Caleb Finley

Her Hands

Memoir

1st Place: Benya Wilfret

Sculpted by the Algorithm

2nd Place: Olivia Rivera

A Home for This Love (In the Stars)

3rd Place: Bryce Augusti

Why Write?

Other Submissions

Fall Creative Writing

Julia Burnette

An Ode to My Cat

Emmie Hanks

The Childhood That Disappeared

Sachin Lakshman

Countertop Dishwasher

Rachel Mencer

Widespread Wisdom for Witches and Wizards

Madison Perry

The Me That Is Left

Ode to a Pen

John Richter

Twice Does the Winter Strike

Layla Wood

Family Dinner

Gina Zeng

Delayed

Spring Creative Writing

Shivan Chhabra

Moose

Lillian Diamond

Starry Night

Peyton Gallagher

A Million Dollars

Emma Hessler

There’s a Little Green in the Ocean

Sam Hollingshead

Drawn to the Chaos

Harper Hubbard

A Summer Storefront

Ariana Kish

What If the Day Never Turned Red

Claudia Lloyd

Dear Audrey

Anabelle Meigs

If I Went to Space

Lauren Perry
Michai Sanders

New Home

Caroline Thompson

My Days With Him

Shirley Yang

The Way You Love

Art and Media

1st Place: Michai Sanders

Fern Wrapped Wonder

2nd Place: Cashier Brooks

Into the Realm

3rd Place: Isaac Freeman

Sunset Tsunami

Other Artists

Ceramics & Textiles

Linh Tran

Painting & Drawing

Caleb Finley

Janice Jeong

Avery Pellicciotti

Bella Weeks

Photography

Josue Aparicio Castillo

Tanner Bradford

Samantha Brock

Izzy Brown

Nick DeGiacinto

Payton Earwood

Isaac Freeman

Annika Gupta

Lauchlin Huebner

Luke Jones

Ethan MacLaren

Hannah Mason

Sophia Quezada

Olivia Rivera

Isabella Robinson

Michai Sanders

Naifu (Alex) Wang

Henry Zhang