The NightWriter Review – Issue No. 1


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