WALLACE PRIZE
MAYA PASIC
NONFICTION: Learnin’ the Blues

It’s not that I’ve historically been a big Sinatra fan. My parents were more Dean Martin people. It feels a little silly saying I’m a […]

June 13, 2021

MIA ARIAS TSANG
FICTION: The Big Crunch

“I’m gonna have a smoke.” Lina rolled over on her mattress to see Carmen standing beside the bed in nothing but her underwear, Marlboro pack […]

June 13, 2021

ANNIE ROSENTHAL
The Squirrel Whisperer

Walk into Gayle Molloy-Barbour’s house in early autumn, and odds are the first several dozen things you see will be squirrels. To start, there are […]

July 13, 2020

Jordan Schmolka
LILY WEISBERG
Oh, Brother

On a Friday in mid-January, I walked up High Street for SigEp’s Open House rush event. [1] I was thrilled by the thought of going […]

July 13, 2020

Zihao Lin
MATTHEW KLEINER
Carpe Carp

Clint Carter’s first catch of the day jumps right into his boat before he’s laid an inch of net. Another four or five silver carp […]

July 13, 2020

Trevor Miller
LILY WEISBERG
Dramatic Irony

In James Bundy’s “Acting Shakespeare” class, I stand on the spacious hardwood floor, trying to channel a woman whose lover has been flakey and untrustworthy. […]

July 13, 2020

Zihao Lin
ELENA DEBRE
Hypochondria

I wake up each morning with COVID-19. A burn stretches out between my shoulder blades and knots in the soft flesh above my lungs. I […]

July 13, 2020

Dora Guo
IN KYU CHUNG
The Ghosts of Fish

“Mackerels and halibuts! Twenty thousand won a kilogram! Just in from the seas!” The Jagalchi fish market of Busan is itself a giant twitching fish. […]

July 13, 2020

Ivory Fu
SHARLA MOODY
A Threefold Cord

Jeremy didn’t want to take Caleb with him, but Kathleen insisted. “I don’t want that cat in my house,” she said. “I don’t know what […]

July 13, 2020

Sophie Henry
LESLIE M. GONZALEZ
Ghosts

FALDAS Y FOTOS: When I was twelve, Mamá maintained that I couldn’t wear a falda if I wanted to ride my bike to school. When […]

July 13, 2020

Roxanna Andrade
ODETTE WANG
After Closing

On her first day back, Evelyn remembered why she had left. She had almost forgotten what Florida rain was like – to have the sky […]

July 13, 2020

Alex Taranto