NFWC 2022

Poetry

A pale yellow tissue embossed with a paisley design that has stains of red food coloring resembling blood in the center. The largest stain has a small, five-petaled flower sketched on top in a gold ink.

My Favorite Color Used To Be You

By Tovah Oslovich | July 29, 2022

Tulips are toxic, though rarely life-threatening.

Fiction

a photograph of a billiards table looking across the surface at table level. balls are visible all over the table. in the foreground, a hand and a pool cue line up for a shot next to the 7 and the cue ball. in the blurry background, another figure is resting their forearms on the edge of the table and looking at the person lining up the shot

Hard Game to Win

By Laura Rochedieu | July 29, 2022

It’s rolling, still rolling, and—

Ekphrastic

I have been

By Rebecca Tsarkov | July 29, 2022

I wonder how she feels about the fact
that she will always be dreaming

Poetry

A color photograph of a belladonna plant, with light green leaves edged in a soft purple. There is a purple flowerbud in mid-bloom on the middle left of the photo, and a sigle pitch-black berry in the center.

Toxic Beauty

By Jonah Chudzik | July 29, 2022

It will cure you or kill you.

Ekphrastic

Space and Time

By Lauren Tedford | July 29, 2022

time is warped & confused

Poetry

French Marigold

By Gunnar Whalen | July 27, 2022

You needed to be the best.

Poetry

An oil painting of a basket full of flowers, with leaf cuttings interspersed throughout. The flowers are in shades of pink, blue, yellow, purple, orange, and white. There are three flowers which are on the table in front of the basket. One is a frilly pink rose, another is a white rose, and the third is a yellow tulip striped with orange lines. On top of the tulip is a black butterfly, and there is a dragonfly to the left of the white rose.

Garden of Flowers

By Lauren Tedford | July 25, 2022

I am the one for me and only me.