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Student 2022

Writing Contest Winners

Pandemic Moon

By Kamella Bird-Romero Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Creative Nonfiction, In Print, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Pandemic Moon

I had a baby during a worldwide pandemic. My son’s cultural exposure evaporates with every passing month of life. Ceremonies Tewa babies undergo have been halted, like pausing a moon mid-phase. My son shines like a crescent in the sky, …

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Does It Hurt?

By Brandon Scott Bombardier Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Does It Hurt?

When I was a kid, I thought that losing your toes was a natural part of aging, like losing baby teeth. Every summer I stayed with my Grandmother Mary in Oklahoma, I would see her missing toes, healed, smooth, and …

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(I Am) Her Glittering Existence film

By Alyssa Nakai Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Film, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
(I Am) Her Glittering Existence film

Sawed-Off Shotgun

By Brianna G. Reed Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Creative Nonfiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Sawed-Off Shotgun

The late-night, grainy mugshot of the woman with a coy smile tugging at her lips betrayed her name, finally, at the bottom: Brandy Wright. No one knew where she got it at first. No one understood why she felt the …

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(I Am) Her Glittering Existence

By Alyssa Nakai Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
(I Am) Her Glittering Existence
Turquoise, Not Diamonds by Kiana Woody of Tohono O‘odham Community College

I am from the empty canyon walls underneath and hidden I am from the place where white corn breathes prayer into the morning dawn I am from the place where yellow corn cascades pollen into the evening twilight I am …

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hūzíwí

By Nelson Alburquenque Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in In Print, Poetry, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
hūzíwí

hūzíwí waking, spiky ivory scarlet legs emerging under silky deep burrow ancient nightmare web   hūzíwí arms rumbling, lava blood summoning as veins bulge dripping molten dread while finger bark rots fish bone and plastic hen   hūzíwí chest broadening, …

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A Mother’s Strength

By Shikiya Chase Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Creative Nonfiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
A Mother’s Strength
Magical Benson by Tasheana Tenorio of Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College

The world seems still and quiet, almost like everything is in slow motion except for me. People are walking by, always giving a sad nod, like they know why you are there. His dad is on the other side of …

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Scattered Threads on Dancing Winds

By Brianna G. Reed Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Scattered Threads on Dancing Winds

In the few months before cancer took hold of my grandmother, she’d flown down the coast from New York to visit us for one last Virginia summer together. I was about ten at the time and old enough to know …

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Lessons in Motion

By Craig Poitra Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Lessons in Motion
Untitled by Courtney Grammentz of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College

The sound of the stream flowing behind him was comforting. The water always represented both a means of refuge and a means of transportation, so he always found himself relaxing along the shores and banks during his journeys. Things were …

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Glenora

By teklu Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Creative Nonfiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Glenora
Hidden History Now Seen by Daniella James of San Carlos Apache College

All thoughts of my mother are similarly complicated by one thing. She died when I was fifteen. By the time I was twenty-four, I felt I’d already lived three lifetimes, in just this one life (which I’d always hoped would …

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