The NYU Creative Writing Program's Award-Winning Literary Journal
The NYU Creative Writing Program's Award-Winning Literary Journal
Spring 2025
Translations
Talib Abdul Aziz, “Picture of a Man”, translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
Abboud Aljabiri, “The Black Garden”, translated by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
Sambhunath Chattopadhyay, “Ratan Bagdi’s Wife”, translated by Kingshuk Sarkar
Ida Marie Hede, “The Yellow House”, translated by Hazel Evans and Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg
Moisei Fishbein, “Apocrypha” & “Exodus”, translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin
Hwang Yuwon, “The Stars’ Whispers”, translated by Jake Levine and Soohyun Yang
Evgenia Nekrasova, “It’s Cold and Snowing Here”, translated by Marianna Suleymanova
Parashuram, “Birinchi Baba”, translated by Arunava Sinha
Craft
Adrienne Chung, “What Do You Write About?”
Interviews
Interview with Alyssa Songsiridej by Zoe Flavin
Interview with Golden by Janay Kelley
Interview with Antonia Phoebe Brown by Madeline Zuzevich
Fiction
Becky Hagenston, “Everything Must Go”
Elizabeth Wing, “Sealskin”
Jamila Wilkinson, “Pilings”
Celeste Scott, “The Last Vacation”
Nonfiction
Mialise Carney, “On Muteness”
John Kaufmann, “Willi”
Greg Marshall, “Good Bones”
Court Ludwick, “Transformations on a Coordinate Plane”
Andleeb Shadani, “The Eyes of Women”, New Voices Award Winner
Poetry
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Voice Message from Gaza”, “Voice Message from Gaza, 2” & “Air Mind”
Zahra Dhakkar, “December 6th, “ “Down to my elbows” & “November 1st”
Linette Marie Allen, “BLACKOUT”
Carla Harryman, “A Sentimental Journey”
Kelly Hoffer, “Racket (i)”, “Racket (ii)” & “Racket (iii)”
James Chung McKenna, from “Long”
Brandon Krieg, “Rewiring the West”
Ian U Lockaby, “Having an empty house with you” & “Location History”
Chelsey Minnis, from “Opera Fever”
Saba Keramati, “Super Tuesday” & “Memory”
Samn Stockwell, “Two boys”
Yongyu Chen, Untitled & “Truant”
Rodrigo Toscano, “Systems vs Isolates”