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Solar Flare 2024

Winner

The Happy Son / JR Fenn / Fiction

Best of Category

A Lost Coastline / Dylan Seeman / Art

Finalists

Argestes, In Heat / Paloma Maria Freitas / Fiction

Impact / Katie Wilde / Art

The Banger / Rebecca Winterer / Fiction

Midday Living / Drie Chapek / Art

Goddess Musings #1 / Micaela Foreman / Fiction

Goldilocks Zone 2024

Winner

How We Learned to Fly / Anita Hunt / Poem

Best of Category

Lucky Stones / Christy O’Callaghan / Fiction

Finalists

His T-shirt and Mine / Milo Harvey / Poem

Maybe Both / Jordan Nishkian / Fiction

Incoming Message From @mr_wolf… / Freya Morris / Fiction

At the Edge of Things / William Winston / Poem

Inception 2024

Winner

Sea Horse: An Ode / George Kramer / Poem

Best of Category

Ginger Cake / Indyana Horobin / Best of CNF

Eulogistic Texts to My Dead Girlfriend as a Timeline of Grief / Kyo Lee / Best of Fiction

Comfort / Juanjuan Henderson / Best of Art (shown here)

The Buddha Train / Stephen Policoff / Best of Novel

Finalists

She’s Undone / GJ Gillespie / Finalist / Art

Reflection in Orange / Robin Young / Finalist / Art

My Glittering City / Heather Shreve / Finalist / Art

Your Body is Real / Anna Troxell / Finalist / Art

Rigel 2024

Winner

 Proper Adults / Caitlyn Moony / Novel Excerpt 

Best of Category

Disturbances / Lenora Steele / Best of Poetry

Nineteen Years Old on a Friday Night / Evien Berry / Best of CNF

Guardian, On the Road to Mt. Nemrud – Turkiye, 2011 / William Winston / Best of Art (Shown Here)

The Key is to Keep Saying Sorry / Adrian Fleur / Best of Fiction 

Finalists

The Older Man / Alan Sincic / Fiction / Finalist

Eclipse /David Landau / Fiction / Finalist

Geminga 2024

Winner

Don’t Look Up / Pamela Viggiani / Art (Shown Here)

Best of Category

Dear Susan, I Am Your Antony – Emily D. / Rosa Lane / Best of Poetry

The Morning After You Passed / Alfie White / Best of Fiction 

Finalists

In the Nest / Annie Dawid / Art

Goldilocks Zone 2023

Winner

Mis-en-scéne / Kathy Flann / Essay

Runners-up

The Lido / Donna Ferguson / Best of Fiction

Revenant / J Carraher / Best of Poetry

In the Woods Once Upon a Time / Robin Young / Best of Art (Shown Here)

Finalists

Dean Martin / Jennifer Seigle / Essay 

Inception 2023

Winner

Nightwalk / Bill Schulz / Painting (shown here)

Runners-up

Two Winters Long / Nathaniel Eddy / Novel / Best of Novels

Genesis / Rex Wilder / Best of Art

Grinders and Cream / Robert Hickson / Fiction / Best of Short Stories

Finalists

The Devil in the Details / TJ Morley / Fiction

Deus in Machina / Karen Davis / Novel

Kentucky Blood (Book I) / Ashley Sheikh / Novel

Woodcutter / Danielle Stonehirsch / Fiction

BUZZKILL / Leila Springer / Fiction

A Dream of Tibet / Bill Schulz / Painting

Rigel 2023

Winner

  Book, Escape, Sanctuary / Lesley Finn / Essay with Erased & Collaged Pages

Runners-up

Hope your heart is lighter than a feather / Quentin Pace / Best of Art (left)

A Brief History of a Flood / J Carraher / Best of Essay

Lavender / Marilyn Hope / Best of Fiction (tied)

Salvatore Milione / Maureen Hall / Best of Fiction (tied)

Finalists

Adrift in Deep Sea / Penny Senanarong / Art

Body Count / Michael Cullinane / Fiction

Motorcycling to Mexican Time and the Zen Sea WC-3244 / Essay

Fishing for her children / Dave Sims / Art

Seeing the Spider / Luann Lewis / Fiction

Geminga 2023

Winner

The Weather Circus / Aubrie Brown / Fiction

Runners-up

plumeria / Helen Wu / Best of Poetry

Canopy / Kim Downey / Best of CNF

What Is a Mouth / EZAM / Best of Graphic Novel

Death Portrait of Pappoo / Peter Chechopoulos / Best of Art

Finalists

Restoration / Juan Gallo / Art (Left)

Moon / Irene Blair Honeycutt / Poem

Riverside, Dubuque, IA Series / Christopher Paul Brown / Art

I miss our old house and the bougainvillea tree outside our window / Christine Imperial / Poem

Rust / Ginna Wilkerson / Art

I Can Tell You / Kyle Gardner / Fiction

Regarding your workplace / Ben Elliott / Poem

Web / Susan Dambroff / Art

How the Giantess Became Small / Amy Marques / Poem

And Blood the Next Day / Brendan Straubel / Fiction

Leftover Summer Somnolence / Katrina Lemaire / Poem

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