Poetry
Alexandra Smereka Lake Erie — pollution, unsafe water, tornadoes
Jennifer Christgau-Aquino Anatomy of a Dandelion — possible animal death
Wren Tuatha Funeral Road — animal abuse, homophobia
Margarita Cruz The West Is On Fire — power cuts, storms
Prairie Moon Dalton Carolina In January and Flood Event — hunger, animal death, abandonment, drowning, pregnancy, genetic disorders
Aviva Lilith unperfect — child sex abuse, eating disorders, parental death
Cora Anderson I thought about titling this for Catholic fasting girls but I don’t want to pretend it is holy to starve — eating disorders
Jasmine Tabor a chronicle of hunger — self-harm, hospitalisation, possible eating disorders
Mubanga Kalimamukwento my mother’s favorite food — physical abuse, domestic abuse
Kelli Russel Agodon La Gardienne De Sources / The Keeper of Sources and A Poem Where I Send Love Away But I Also Find Kittens — drug use, animal attack
Sergio Duenas Truths and lies in no particular order — animal death, physical abuse, child abuse, cheating
A. M. Goodhart St. Lucy as Virgin Queen Ant — animal death, self-harm
Rachael Sevitt Time Machine — theft, child abuse, divorce
Meredeth MacLeod Davidson Flammable and Inflammable Have Different Meanings, But Non-Flammable Is An Antonym To Them Both — fire, arson, robbery
Roy Bentley The Wreck Of Your Life On The Evening New — car crash, death, animal death, injury, blood, gun
Sam Spring Hooves — drug use
Samantha Imperi You, Turning Forty — pregnancy, miscarriage
Heidi VanderVelde Remnants — animal death, knives
Marshall Woodward From A Deer Stand — death, guns, hunting
Prose
Kasimma Seeking Ebele — violence
Munroe Forbes Shearer The Five Pillars of Intimacy — sexually explicit content