American Literary Review

- Current Double Issue - Fall 2012 - Spring 2013


Cover Art by	Lisa Vining

FICTION

Dustin Parsons, What Magic I’ve Saved

First Prize: ALR 2012 Fiction Contest
Final Judge: Hannah Tinti
Lydia Kann, The Sweetness of the Vine
Ellen Prentiss Campbell, Problem Set
David James Poissant, Wake The Baby
Kristen Leigh Schwarz, The Slumbering Knife
David Rutschman, A Rooster in the Thorns

Eileen G'Sell, Like Good News From A Pretty Girl

First Prize: ALR 2012 Poetry Contest
Final Judge: Jim Harms
Allan Peterson, Voices Over Water
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, The Lost
Isaac Pressnell, Viscera
Al Maginnes, Till Human Voices Wake Us
Nance Van Winckel, Placebo Poem
Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Abelia; Letter from Limbo; To Roethke, Saved from Drowning
Jessica Glover, Alone With Her Reflection; Skywalk
Jon Thompson, You Think It’s You, But it’s Really Not (Training Day)
Peter B. Hyland, Storms Are Formed Behind the Storm We Feel
Neil Aitken, List
Robert Gibb, Recidivist
Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Artemis: View of Actaeon
Hadara Bar-Nadav, Song and Static; The Hook of History
Michael Levan, I Lose More Each Day I Spend in This Town
Eleanor Paynter, The Eschatologists
Alice Friman, Now
David N. Moolten, Salt
Abriana Jetté, A Dog Has Died
Colette Inez, For Our Neighbor John
John Poch, Drama Major
Amy Fleury, Sympathetic Magic
Gregory Fraser, Not a Word; The Good Life
Dean Rader, How We Survive: A Triptych
Keetje Kuipers, Cold Comfort in October
William Wenthe, February
Michelle Regalado Deatrick, Winter Kept Us Warm
Kate Lynn Schirmer, Sinumbra
Christopher Buckley, Shrodinger’s Cat
Jocelyn Sears, How long I pretended I wasn’t hungry

Robert Long Foreman, Carlo

First Prize: ALR 2012 Creative Nonfiction Contest
Final Judge: Abigail Thomas