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Honorable Mention: Memory Maker

Days past stand still like faded oil portraits: Dead paths. Bristle tracks. Trace the process with your fingers: Blur distinctions. Smear the...

Honorable Mention: The Philosophy Professor’s Sunflowers

The Philosophy Professor’s Sunflowers for James Campbell So, yes, in answer to your question, I have noticed that death is everywhere pouring out...

3rd Place Poetry: Exhaled Smoke

A lush soundtrack of funk flows In waves over cracked cement. Cars gleam with chrome wheels Sending sparks to the sky. Riding that bass,...

2nd Place Poetry: Week Night

Just now ten at night and I can sit, drink a beer while the dishes soak. The children listen in bed to radios...

1st Place Poetry: Common Ground

When I was a child, I used to wonder why  Only the insects and birds knew how to fly. Why couldn’t I? When...

Honorable Mention: Puddle Play

Even as a child Eric couldn't resist. The lure of reflections and the shimmer of dancing light made him leap feet first into...

Honorable Mention: Her Name Was Mattie

It was a story full of delicious revenge for scared black kids growing up in the early forties in Ringout, Alabama. It was...

3rd Place Fiction: The Journey

He pushed his head slowly forward, hesitant to leave his sanctuary under the front porch. He’d been lying in his makeshift shelter since the...

2nd Place Fiction: Sensitivity training

A generous degenerate left something for you in a rest stop bathroom between the love-kit/temporary tattoo dispenser and the infinitely useless hand dryer. There’s...

1st Place Fiction: Catharsis

“Señorita Larkin, I will ask this in English since you seem to have extreme difficulty understanding the language of the country in which you...

Poetry & Fiction 2015

Fighting for the write

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Meet the Literati

New group hopes to inspire younger audience to use Toledo Library

Calling all writers

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There’s a new laureate in town

Congratulations to Jim Ferris for his appointment to the office of Poet Laureate for Lucas County.
Toledo City Paper
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