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(cited in BAE 2015, 2016, 2020, 2022); PUSHCART poetry finalist

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Summer 2010

Cover Photography by William Betcher

Welcome to our SUMMER AWARDS ISSUE, with 2010 Contest Winners and also featuring other special selected poems and essays. We are delighted with the quality of this work, and Solstice lit mag will be nominating from this issue, its next issue, and from its past issues (see Archives) for next year’s Pushcart Prizes, and the Best of Series, both online and print, as well as other online awards. Also, please click on the names in CONTRIBUTORS for the bios of these fine writers. Awards can inspire writers to keep writing and readers to keep reading, so be inspired!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes

  • Summer 2010 Editor’s Note
    by Lee Hope

Fiction

  • Our Golden State
    by Fred Setterberg
  • The Edge
    by José Skinner
  • Remains From the Winking Place
    by Lisa Friedlander
  • Kings
    by Karima Grant
  • The Dead Garden
    by Sybil Wilen
  • Ice
    by Michael Miner

Nonfiction

  • Stealing
    by Michele Cacho-Negrete
  • Perspectives
    by DeWitt Henry
  • Meeting Karter
    by Jean Trounstine

Poetry

  • Self-Invention, or, Torch Song for a One-Night Stand
    by Emily Van Duyne
  • I’m Sorry, Will Roby, or: Why I’m Not a Language Poet
    by Emily Van Duyne
  • Contrition
    by Emily Van Duyne
  • 3rd House Down From The Corner Behind The Red Door
    by Andrea Walls
  • Poem for Two Dogs, Hanged in Salem, 1692
    by Lesléa Newman
  • The Knifemaker
    by Melanie Drane
  • The Year of the Snake
    by Melanie Drane
  • Mother Update, for My Brothers
    by Deborah DeNicola
  • Rewind
    by Deborah DeNicola


Contributors

avatar for Andrea WallsAndrea Walls
Avatar photoDeborah DeNicola
Avatar photoDeWitt Henry
Avatar photoEmily Van Duyne
avatar for Fred SetterbergFred Setterberg
Avatar photoJean Trounstine
Avatar photoJosé Skinner
Avatar photoKarima Grant
avatar for Lesléa NewmanLesléa Newman
avatar for Lisa FriedlanderLisa Friedlander
avatar for Melanie DraneMelanie Drane
avatar for Michael MinerMichael Miner
Avatar photoMichele Cacho-Negrete
avatar for Sybil WilenSybil Wilen

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