Winners of the 2022 Waking Flash Prose Prize
Just in time for Halloween: We're announcing the winner, runner-up, and finalists of the 2022 Waking Flash Prose Prize.
Angel Bath
When she thought of all that shiny porcelain shattering down the slope, angels’ limbs mangled and plump cheeks drowned in the muddy river, her body quivered in an almost religious ecstasy.
Lemons
She had lemons/who crooned to her,/lemons that smoked unfiltered cigarettes,/lemons that rolled down mountains to be near her.
Águila del desierto
Because he found/brother, cousin/facedown. Because he lost/home like bones lose/flesh.
Winter's Carol
What shock to find a child/can transform you. Once, the Lord in flesh was like this:/strangler fig and tentacled.
Immortality Is (Im)Material
Juvenescent jellyfish live to infinity in the mega-flooded/garden of the Mediterranean, those raised, sedimented beds first/planted by the Atlantic.
Dear Mother
Oh mother, once upon a time, mother. I owe you something/but what? And what of me here in this white room with the ash/scattered and the rocker stationed at the window.
Goats
Cursing, he sat up and then found the goat watching him, a petulant look in its black eyes, and its mouth full and chewing on the woman’s wet hair.
In the Petrified Forest
Love is relativistic like that. It can dilate the world to the sharp intake of half a breath, the space between parted lips, the incremental uptick of temperature as two forms share heat. It makes it all stretch into the infinite.
Winners of the 2022 Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Elisávet Makridis and our other eight finalists!
Issue 62: Between the Fog and the River
A short story from Gabriela Halas, which is one of five prose pieces featured in Issue 62.
Issue 62: Broadside Winner and Finalist
Poems from our 2021 Broadside Poetry Prize winner and runner-up, Denise Miller and Maria Zoccola.
Read: Winner and Runner-Up of the 2019 Poetry Contest
Up this week: "Encroachment" and "Everbearing"
Read: Winner and Runner-Up of the 2020 Poetry Contest
Up this week: "The Difference Between a Year and a Lifetime" and "Papier-mâché."
Read: Winner and Runner-Up of the 2021 Poetry Contest
Over the next few weeks, we'll be celebrating the winners and runners-up of our last three annual poetry contests.
Meet Our 2022 Poetry Judge Rajiv Mohabir
With our 2022 Poetry Contest in full swing, we're ecstatic to finally announce the judge of this year's prize.
Winners of the 2022 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize
Here at Ruminate, we are so excited to finally share the results of the 2022 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, judged by writer, critic, and journalist Erin Keane.
Interview with our 2022 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize judge, Morgan Talty
An interview between Ruminate’s fiction co-editors, Joe Truscello and Emily Woodworth, and Morgan Talty, the judge for the 2022 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize.
Labyrinth
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh's visual art "Labyrinth" appears in Issue No. 61: Beginnings and Endings.
Friendship: A Haiku
Cynthia Gralla's piece "Friendship: A Haiku" appears in Issue 61: Beginnings and Endings.
Fish Eye
Arah Ko's winning poem poem "Fish Eye" originally appears in Issue No. 61: Beginnings and Endings
Issue 60: At Sea Reader's Notes
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes featured in Issue 60: At Sea.
White Coat, Black Habit
Walter Robinson's piece "White Coat, Black Habit" appears in Issue 60: At Sea.
Human Condition
Nicholas Samaras's poem "Human Condition" originally appears in Issue No. 60: At Sea.
Falling Sky, Rising Sea
Paul Roorda's visual art "Falling Sky, Rising Sea" appears in Issue No. 60: At Sea.
Issue 59: Forged Readers' Notes
We are thrilled to share some hand-picked readers' notes featured in Issue 59: Forged.
Of The Eating Variety
Allison Field Bell's piece "Of the Eating Variety" appears in Issue 59: Forged
In the Hopes I Can Spell Out My Name
E. Kristin Anderson's poem "In the Hopes I Can Spell Out My Name" appears in Issue 59: Forged.
Lake Harriet, 2005
Karen Kubin's poem "Lake Harriet, 2005" originally appeared in Ruminate's Issue 53: Shelter.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.