2026 Memory Contest Creative Nonfiction Winner 1. On February 23, 1987, at 9:02 pm in Warsaw, Poland, I leave my mother’s womb,
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2026 Memory Contest Winner Braced Against the Current Flies circle my cheeks as we drifton rafts in the leaf mantled pool,eyes squinting
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2026 Memory Contest Fiction Runner-Up It’s 1992, I’m in the East Village, and my favorite dead ex-boyfriend Mike picks me up in
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2026 Memory Contest Creative Nonfiction Runner-Up I am holding my mother’s hand as we walk towards the Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, past the
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Siri Pleas Not I, not tonight. Not even halfway homewhen this notification brakes your black bikebefore the lichened gate of the communitylabyrinth—
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