With special thanks to our judges Mira T. Lee & Dustin Pearson, Yemassee is happy to announce that the winners of our 2021 Chapbook Contests have been chosen. Thank you all for sending in such amazing work! It is a pleasure to read, as always. The winners of the chapbook contests are as follows:
Fiction— Lynn Mundell, Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us
Poetry— Stevie Subrizi, Alone and Naked inside of a Whale
Congratulations to both of our winners and you can learn more about their work by clicking the above links.
We are delighted to announce that Issue 27 of Yemassee will be released and available for purchase by July 1. This issue, which will feature our 2020 single contest winners, is the culmination of a year’s worth of hard work, and we are so grateful to our editors, readers, and staff for all of their efforts in this project. And special thanks of course go out to the contributors for their amazing words and for trusting Yemassee as a home for their work. We are excited to share these wonderful poems, stories, and essays with our readership!
Our first seasonal spotlight is now live. In it, we bring you the poetry of nicole v basta and nonfiction by Wendy Fontaine. We are so excited to share their work with you and continue to spotlight great works on our website. You can check out the Summer 2021 Spotlight here or through links at the bottom of the page.
Because of delays created by the coronavirus pandemic, we were unable to select winners for our 2020 contests until earlier this year. We thank each and every one of you for your patience and support throughout the process. In case you missed these announcements, you can still view the winners at the following links:
2020 Poetry Contest, 2020 Fiction Contest, 2020 Poetry Chapbook Contest, 2020 Fiction Chapbook Contest
all our best,
Melanie, Marcus, and Katarina
Senior Editors
Yemassee
“Fire Dancer” by Wendy Fontaine I walk along dusty streets at the base of the Verdugo Mountains just north of Los Angeles, my gaze fixed upon the jagged horizon, Read more…
“epigenetics or: time draws a circle” by nicole v basta which summer is this arithmetic is one thing, freckles another power Read more…
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