OCTOBER 2014: CONTEST ISSUE. Cover Art: Feral Child by Merritt Cates
About The 2014 Coniston Prize
Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Editors
Introducing The Winner: Flower Conroy
Mary Biddinger, Contest Judge
Flower Conroy
Winner of the 2014 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Valerie Roybal
Dear Blue Comb
Serpentarium Or The Matrix Of A Heart
Heart Impaled
I Am The Medusa
Facts About Snakes And Hearts
Matrix Of A Serpentarium Heart
Carrie Meadows
Finalist, 2014 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Shannon Estlund
Like A Saw
O Mamma, Save Me
Have Mercy
Cedar Creek Charlie: How To Build A Wood Coffin
In The Head
Anna Meister
Finalist, 2014 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Julie Farstad
What
On Practicing Drawing My House
Through The Window, I Watch
A World In Itself
What I Love & Will Never Again
Mai Der Vang
Finalist, 2014 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Erin Case
Meditation Of The Lioness
Three
At Birth I Was Given A Book
In The Swallow's Breath It Is You
Phantom Talker
Terminus
Rachel Richardson
Finalist, 2014 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Jeremy Miranda
Of Whales In Paint; In Teeth; In Wood; In Sheet-Iron; In Stone; In Mountains; In Stars
Nature Show, 3 A.M.
I And Thou