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July 27, 2026July 27, 2026
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Ars Poetica | Summer Wrobel

2026 Memory Contest Creative Nonfiction Runner-Up I am holding my mother’s hand as we walk towards the Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, past the fish market and the Barnes and Noble where, if I am lucky, I can convince her to buy a hot chocolate from the Starbucks inside. It is winter,

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Braced Against the Current | Grace Lynn

2026 Memory Contest Winner Braced Against the Current Flies circle my cheeks as we drifton rafts in the leaf mantled pool,eyes squinting or shut against the sunand growling thunderclouds.We are trying to

Salt | Luc Le

2026 Memory Fiction Prize Winner I. Here is the girl. She is

Salt | Luc Le

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026
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2026 Memory Fiction Prize Winner I. Here is the girl. She is in the water. A cold, dark blue. A body weightless, unmoored. Pitched back and forth by the current.  Here is

Braced Against the Current | Grace Lynn

July 27, 2026July 27, 2026
Contest Winners/poetry/Sonora/sonora online

2026 Memory Contest Winner Braced Against the Current Flies circle my cheeks as we drifton rafts in the leaf mantled pool,eyes squinting or shut against the sunand growling thunderclouds.We are trying to

Ars Poetica | Summer Wrobel

July 27, 2026July 27, 2026
Contest Winners/nonfiction/Sonora/sonora online

2026 Memory Contest Creative Nonfiction Runner-Up I am holding my mother’s hand as we walk towards the Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, past the fish market and the Barnes and Noble where, if I

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Sonora Review is among the oldest student-run literary journals in the country, and has been devoted since its founding in 1980 to offering a venue for exciting new and emerging authors, as well as prominent southwestern writers and artists.

In previous issues we have featured work by Aimee Bender, Joy Harjo, and Maggie Nelson, and our editors have included Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and David Foster Wallace. Work originally printed in Sonora Review has appeared in Best of the West and Best American Poetry, and has won O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes.
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