NFWC 2023

Fiction

Renoir painting of a bouquet.

Raspberry Ribbon Cheesecake

By Maia Killory | August 2, 2023

There was something wrong, with your expression,

Poetry

A forest during the fall with a rocky stream and a white house across the stream.

by her own hand

By Veronica Antov | August 2, 2023

Severing beauty from roots

Poetry

Children at the ocean shore, the sun is beginning to set just above the horizon

Childhood

By Xenia Valentin | August 2, 2023

I was 9 when I stood in the back of the line.

Nonfiction

Walking with my Grandfather

By Cassie Goundrey | August 2, 2023

You know, back in my day…

Fiction

Divine being with wings, and people around

Upstairs, Downstairs, and the Inbetween Floor

By Rowan Hodgkins | August 2, 2023

Most of us live on the second floor.

Fiction

lone balloons in an street

Remission and Recurrence

By Veronica Antov | August 2, 2023

the boy’s bike wobbled precariously

Poetry

Cracked desert ground

A Fatal Taint

By Maia Killory | August 2, 2023

naïveness is my fatal trait.

Poetry

Yellow maple leaves on a branch illuminated by sunlight

A Love Poem to Myself

By Athena Lavigne | August 2, 2023

dance behind closed curtains

Nonfiction

kneading dough on a counter

A Babka is a Tied Thread

By Veronica Antov | August 2, 2023

my brain harbors a memory of bicolored-batter swirled together

Fiction

Satellite image of a cyclone and its eye

Eyewitness

By Maia Killory | August 2, 2023

everything else seemed normal.