The NightWriter Review
Issue No. 1
Winter 2024
Editor’s Note
Harvey Ardman
Sounds Like Joni Mitchell
Fiction by S.S. Presby
(First Place – Golden Quill Writing Contest 2024)
My Favorite Animal Is a Harbor Seal
Nonfiction by Michele L. Roest
(First Place – Golden Quill Writing Contest 2024)
Three Poems by L.I. Henley
Anatomy of a Train
(First Place – Golden Quill Writing Contest 2024)
Memory of an Unnamed Color
An Old Friend Calls to Tell Me About the Death of Another Old Friend
The Lila Segovia Smile
Fiction by Anne R. Allen
(Second Place – Golden Quill Writing Contest 2024)
My Wrinkled Brain
Nonfiction by Rusty Evans
(Second Place – Golden Quill Writing Contest 2024)
Three Poems by Misty Wycoff
Game Time
(Second Place – Golden Quill Writing Contest 2024)
Exploration
A New Tune
The Mary Taft Mystery
Fiction by Kevin Carver
The Stoic Parent
Nonfiction by T.K. Schuberth
Three Poems by Andréa Ferrell Gannon
Abecedarian for an Inheritance
As If I Knew What I Was Doing
I think to call sometimes to explain
Devil Cut
Fiction by Robert Morgan Fisher
Ninety Miles from Normal
Nonfiction by Christina Dillow
Three Poems by Lewis Leicher
When I Was Five
December 1972
What I Miss Most
The Light of Luna Madre
Fiction by C.S. Perryess
Mother-Daughter Luncheon
Nonfiction by Debra Davis Hinkle
Three Poems by Nancy Yang
Spring Trip to the Lake
Father says to bow our heads
Roses and Honeysuckle
An Arranged Marriage
Fiction by Tom Brauner
Melissa
Nonfiction by Heather Campbell
Three Poems by Scott Dalgarno
Down a Hole
in the only tall grass left to mow miguel ignacio naps after taking his lunch
Letter to Our Adorable Zygote Who Went Unrealized
The Essence
Fiction by Christine Ahern
(Editor’s Choice)
A Horse Ran Amok
Poetry by Shari Neva Hollander
Ah, But I Was So Much Older Then; I’m Younger Than That Now
Fiction by Zaslow Crane
(Editor’s Choice)
Three Poems by Joe Amaral
The Potter
Eulogy for Pa Pops
The Antiquity of Youth
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Editor-in-Chief: Harvey Ardman
Managing Editor: Leanne Phillips
Fiction Editor: Brenna Humphreys
Nonfiction Editor: Carolyn Rohrbach
Poetry Editor: Michelle Turner
Copy Editor: Leanne Phillips
Publisher: SLO NightWriters
Print Edition: our print edition will be published with
the assistance of Brian Schwartz, selfpublish.org