Fall / Winter 2023: The Contest Issue Featuring Winners and Finalists for the 2023 Julia Peterkin Literary Awards for Flash Fiction and Poetry Flash Fiction Winner As to Your Comment that It Could Have Been Worse by Caridad Moro-Gronlier Flash Fiction Finalists Incident at Shady Acres by Luanne Castle Devil Child by Sahil Mehta Alley Brats by Kristian O’Hare Poetry Winner A Black Poet Looks Back at his Boyhood by Oak Morse Poetry Finalists The Baby Cure by Emma Bolden Restoration by J. A. Lagana Cleveland School Fire by Ann-Chaldwell Humphries Peonies in Winter by Lisa Higgs