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2023 JOY HARJO POETRY FINALISTS
Shelli Rottschafer, “Bodega on Bagley”
Jennifer Phillips, “The Icon of Extreme Humility”
CW Emerson, “Returning to Averno”
Laura Joyce-Hubbard, “Like a Children’s Choir”
Cassie Burkhart, “Daydreams to Another Life”
Mayah Pico, “Birds, Bees & Caged Beings”
Bernadette McComish, “I Have Not Recovered”
Monique Farrell, “drive…”
Matthew Spireng, “Beauty”
Elizabeth Knapp, “Flashpoint”
Linda Collins, “Glimpse of a hijab in the Algarve”
Derek Sheffield, “War Over There”
Diana Woodcock, “A Fire Raging in My Hair”
2023 RICK DE MARINIS SHORT STORY FINALISTS
Micheal Cullinane, “The Bottom of the Stack”
Mark Wagstaff, “Full Service”
Beverly Orth, “Detour”
Conor Madigan, “Finchs Cow”
Jeffrey Fieingold, “The Butterfly”
Ashish Kaul, “Godless by the Ganges”
2023 BARRY LOPEZ NONFICTION FINALISTS
Doug Crandell, “Winter 1977”
Karen Auvinen, “A Story Of Silence”
Rita Collins, “He Matters”
Deborah Rose, “Toxic Productivity: Challenges and Triumphs in the Journey to Becoming a Physician
Glenda Conway, “Therapeutic Abortion”
Anne Bergeron, “On the Back River Tidal Estuary, Erascohegan, Maine”
Eanlai P. Cronin, “Come Back to Me”
Rebecca Williams, “Khepri”
Beverly Orth, “Fractured”
Mary Beth Hicks, “Mothership”
