Journal – No. 20
Fall/Winter 2013-14 – Vol. 10, No. 2
Sample Spreads
Contributors
2013 Literary Award Winners
Fiction: Caitlin O’Neil, “Change Over Day”
Poetry: R. A. Villanueva, “Aftermaths,” “Sacrum”
Creative Nonfiction: Jessica Wilbanks, “On the Far Side of the Fire”
Translation: Shen Wei, “A Dictionary of Xinjiang” translated by Eleanor Goodman
Runner-up, Poetry: Zoey Farber, “Three Expressions of El Tío”, “Five Characteristics of the Genus Tragelaphus”
Runner-up, Translation: Krasimira Zafirova, “A Formula for Infinity,” “Toast,” “A Birthday Between Two Seas” translated by Olga Nicorova
Fiction
Robyn Joy Leff, “The Dilemma Olympics”
Amelia Gray, “Precious Katherine”
Robyn Carter, “The Instructor’s Discretion”
Adam Peterson, “Time and Temperature,” “Dispatches before the War”
Colin Winnette, “Super Awesome Sexy Weekend”
Michael Leone, “Provenance; or, Notes from a Vanished Archive”
Nonfiction
Angela Woodward, “Punctuation essay”
Nalini Jones, “You Are Looking Almost Good”
Ariel Lewiton, “Holiday”
Poetry
Christopher Kempf, “Kitchen, Fragile”
Nance Van Winckel, “Evening Protocols”
Brian Sneeden, “Lord’s Prayer”
Mark Wagenaar, “The Little Book of Fate,” “Superman’s Love Letter to Kryptonite”
Jessamyn Schnackenberg, “A Scatology”
Stephen Frech, “Enough, Not Enough”
Nathan Slinker, “The Adirondacks”
Patrick Whitfill, “Letter to Howard Nemerov”
David Welch, “The Rabbit’s First Order Is the Hawk”
Art Features
Ben Pond, insert
Mattias Adolfsson, insert
The Questia Project
Where We’re @
Greg Rodgers, “Storytelling in the Midwest”
Ceridwen Hall, “Turkey Detour”
Editorial Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editors: Philip Graham and Janice N. Harrington
Poetry Editor: Michael Madonick
Art Directors: Brian Wiley and Maurice Meilleur
Designers: Lauren Blackburn, Vanessa Burritt, Denise Castaneda, Scott Durand, Dane Georges, Yoojin Hong, Catherine Kolakowski, Bryan Lorenz, Monique Marchwiany, Julian Pahre, Samantha Persons, Lauren Shepherd
Assistant Editors: Kendra Chapman, Angela Hine, Sean MacIntyre
Editorial Assistants: Laura Adamczyk, David Ethan Chambers, Michael Don, Sara Fan, Khaleel Gheba, Ceridwen Hall, Angela Hine, Avery Irons, Roya Khatiblou, Calgary Martin, Natalie Mesnard, Greg Rodgers, Sidney Taiko Sheehan, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Lucilena Williams
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
LAS Humanities Council
Office of the Chancellor
Office of the Provost
School of Art and Design
Individual Sponsors
Publisher
Richard Powers
Robert Skiba
Friend
Joan Golder
Robert Graves
Kathleen Harleman
Robert and Allison Mesnard
Pamela Saunders
This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
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