Spring ’26 (vol. XXXIV) Table of Contents

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Storytellers Competition Winners

Fiction

1st Place: Madeleine Brown

Withering Flowers

2nd Place: Violet Garney

Nostalgia

3rd Place: Angeline Marttila

The Coin

Poetry

1st Place: Ellene Warner

Farewell Address

2nd Place: Athena Vreeland

Be Yourself (Terms and Conditions Applied)

3rd Place: Caroline Thompson

Moving On

Memoir

1st Place: Julia Burnette

Markers of Memory

2nd Place: Catie Chua

Hooked on You

3rd Place: Mia Sekula

Smarter Than You Think

Other Submissions

De’Mari Bridges

Tip Off

Spring Creative Writing

Kingston Adams

Writing a Rondel is Hard

Aishu Babu

My Life Store

Logan Harmer

The Championship Game

Israel Jackson

Uncertain Heart

Evelyn Lunardini

Stranger from the Rain

Alex Orndorff

Controlled Skies

Vish Ragav

Life Store

John Richter

In the Name Of

James Schulze

The Dividing Tree

Quinn Scislowicz

Just One Leg

Anja Seylers

The Weight of Silence

Asa Turner

Peach State Summer

Art and Media

1st Place: Joy Cimino

Lioness

2nd Place: Luke Jones

Stars of Mauna Kea

3rd Place: Josue Aparicio Castillo

Other Artists

Music/Audio
Tom Maekawa

Monitor Lizard

Graham Sundstrom

Broken Bard’s Ballad

Painting & Drawing

Shriya Bhatnagar

Riko Maekawa

Carlissa Nargassans

Avery Pelicotti

Carolina Teyf

Caroline Thompson

Bella Weeks

Photography

Brinkley Argenta

Tanner Bradford

Luke Jones

Oliver Kuhns

Jenna Lawoor

Damien Luciano

Lily Ramsey (3 pieces)

John Richter

Mattie Sochacki

Textiles and Ceramics

Brinkley Argenta