MAYDAY POETRY CONTEST
Micro-Chapbook Contest
WINNER: This Body I Have Tried to Write by Ja’net Danielo
JA’NET DANIELO is the author of The Song of Our Disappearing (2021), a winner of the Paper Nautilus Debut Series Chapbook Contest. She is a recipient of a Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach, and the Telluride Institute’s Fischer Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in swamp pink, Diode, Raleigh Review, Frontier Poetry, and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press), among other places. Ja’net teaches at Cerritos College and lives in Long Beach, CA, where she facilitates Word Women: Poetry Heals, a free virtual poetry workshop series for cancer patients and survivors.
Shortlisted finalists: Like the Vultures by Ash Durrance; Mud (Fieldnotes from a Juvenile Psychiatric Institute) by Kelly Gray; formula for dissolving by Aimee Herman; and Nanny Fairchild Defies Immolation by Kathleen Jones.
Continued finalists: Sugar Tongue Milk by Kelly Gray; Short History of Falling in the Midwest by Michael Levan; Remi, in the Night by Remi Recchia; My Family was like a Russian Novel by Carla Sarett; and Kaleidoscope Poison by Danae Younge.
MAYDAY FICTION CONTEST
March Madness Flash Fiction
Read first place winner “How We Were Born” by Lucy Zhang
Over 1,300 unique votes were cast during this contest. The active readers who made flash fiction part of their daily lives by reading and voting for their favorites really made this special.
WINNER: “How We Were Born” Lucy Zhang
Second Place: “Parts I Know” by Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera
Third Place: “No Story” by Himan Heidari and “A Cow Stood in a Field” By Louise Bierig