Amy Tan, San Jose City College
“By my telling this story, people cared.” (NPR Interview—November 2003)
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- Isabel Besthof, “Riding the Spearmint Rhino.”
- Boi Casillas, “Holy Roller,” “Tiny Pots $4,” & “Dear Catfish I Killed, the first one I killed Or Ode to Edible Gods.”
- Jenny Keto, “Porcelain Doll” & “Own Best Lover.”
- Denise Sochin, “The Big Red Pontiac.”
- Liam Strong, “Jonathan Kellerman Gone Missing.”
- Brandon Umbargar, “Siri” & “Calisthenics for the Unblinking Heart.”
- Jon Vreeland, “Occupation.”
- Vani Winick, “Aqueous,” & “Elements.”
- Creative Nonfiction
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- Amber Violet Daniel, “Violets and Poppies.”
- Marisa Gutierrez, “Toypurina.”
- Vonnie Larsson, “Objectification.”
- Kathryn Lubahn, “The Forgetting.”
- Kathryn Lubahn, “Polite Necessity.”
- Jon Vreeland, “The Killer Turned Blue.”
- Sarah Faulder “Curing the Cancer”
- Sophie Eden “Jars”
- Brian V. Hosier “Sky Blue Lilium”
- Cassie O. “Into The Meadow”
- Kateri Ransom “Apple Turnover”
- Kim MacDonald “Free Falling” “The Fix”
- Lilia Hine, “The Journey”
- Kristin Lee Karwatsky, “The Hole.”
- Betty Kemp, “The Death of Me.”
- Lisa Patterson Lay, “The Rhythm of the Street,” “The Train Home,” and “Bite, Pull, Chew, Toss.”
- James McCabe II, “The First Pair.”
- Brianna Sanow, “Heaven’s Ladder.”
- Trish Thomas-Mink, “The News.”
- Sam Westervelt, “I Want That You See Me.”
- Travis Wyant, “A Day of Life.”
- Jon Vreeland, “The Black Velvet Murder”
- Samantha Linstrom, “Simple Answers”
- Katie Lusk, “Mrs. Stanton’s Question”
- Chris Nelson, “Altru”
- Patrick Shaffer, “The Black Spire”
- Austin Shippey, “Sentimental”
- Poetry Archive
- Jenna Dorn, “Just Another Pair of Boots” and “Gills.”
- Colton Fair, “America’s Coming.”
- Vittorio Grieco, “Mutiny of a Captain” and “Serenade to My Yogini.”
- James Guitierrez, “Wednesday Night Interlude.”
- Marisa Gutierrez, “My Lungs Feel Like Sunlight.”
- Cody James, “End of the World Dream.”
- Jenni Murphy, “Nourishment.”
- Christopher Orange, “Elizabeth.”
- Megan Randolph, “Shut your mouth” and “French Rats.”
- Jason Heaterington, “Who Needs Friends.”
- Alexandria Ulloa, “Blushing” and “The Miracle of a Seed.”
- Ariana Velasquez, “Paradox.”
- Jon Vreeland, “Apartment A vs. Apartment C” and “40 on Black.”
- Vani Winick, “Night Prowl” and “Black Tide.”
- Karen Case, “Agree”
- Brittany West “IN MEADOWS” “LOOK UP CHRISTIAN”
- Dave Barber “Holdn’ Yr Mud”
- Megan Bealer “Lillies” “Dress Code” “Jump the Gun”
- Erika Ceballos “Questions” “Snap Shot” “Abecedarian”
- Blake Landry “8th birthday” “Return to Sender”
- Thomas Madenwald “Silent Sound” “Hunt as One”
- Alexander McKay “A Poem For ‘Morning’ People”
- Tyler Povell “The Golden Question”
- Nicola Sparks-Jones “Men and Bread”
- Jon Vreeland “Mother and the Drunken Ants”
- Joe Wallace “Birthed Anew” “Smell and Memory”
- Matt Curtis, “Helium”
- Nicole Ferrel, “When I Was Eleven” “Breakdown”
- Gerry Gomez, “disposition,” “regret minimization framework,” & “casual attribution”
- Lynn Hunter, “Sustenance”
- Nicole Jennings, “Love Poem”
- Guillermo Martin, “Saudade,” “Diptera,” & “The Room”
- Ezana Salgado, “Kings and Queens”
- Patricia Sanders, “Waking Wild,” “White Boys with Pills,” & “Shadow Musings”
- Carl Swindle, “Running In The Heavens”
- Will Dewey, “Getting the Mail” and “Paradise.”
- Sarah van Praag Leonard, “red, oh how I want you!” and “No Exit.”
- Caroline Mata, “Dress Up Cigarettes” and “Bleeding Angel.”
- Alexander James McKay, “The Rabbit’s Hole.”
- Andrea Parrella, “Breasts.”
- Kali Pollard, “Reseeding.”
- Abi L. Rexrode, “Please Don’t Say You Want the Sorbet” and “First Night in a Foster Home.”
- Christine Yang, “I close the doors.”
- Emmons Poetry Contest 2015
- Emmons Poetry Contest Archive 2014
- Creative Nonfiction Archive
- Yu-Han Chao, “Five Promises to Xiao Guai Guai.”
- Lilia Hine, “The Missing Piece.”
- Damara Lopez-Nelson, “The Day It Rained.”
- Damara Lopez-Nelson, “twelve (criminal).”
- Kathryn Lubahn, “Secrets in the Sun.”
- Anne Phelps, “Marbles.”
- Adam Stumle, “Under the Silhouetted Pine Trees.”
- Jon Vreeland, “Dirty Laundry.”
- Stephanie Weaver, “Comfort in an Unusual Place.”
- Gerry Gomez “Indignant At Being Forced”
- Joan Presley “Contents Under Pressure”
- Jon Vreeland “Fiendin’ for the Witch”
- Matthew Curtis, “facepaint”
- Dan Ramirez, “Dragged in Cat”
- Gerry Gomez, “Aurora”
- Alexandria Ulloa, “A Taste of Freedom”
- Jon Vreeland, “A Town Called Edgar” “$8.00 And Some Change”
- Tracy Werth, “The Ugly Americans”
- Donna Hermann, “What They Don’t Tell You.”
- Crystal Labrecque, “Blocks.”
- Jon Vreeland, “Spotlight.”
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