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of Poeting. Learn more on her website AnneMarieWellsWriter.com.
CREATIVE WRITING CONTRIBUTORS
Poetry
First Prize Winner—Poetry
Nnamdi Ndiolo writes poetry from Port-Harcourt when he isn’t pretending to be a chef,
expecting Grammys from singing in the shower, re-reading Harry Potter, or day-dreaming
himself the Pulitzer. Voice-over artist, Finalist for the Porter House Review Editor’s Prize
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to discard. Read him in New Orleans Review, Palette Poetry, Poetry Column, OnlyPoems.
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Runner-Up—Poetry
Zaynab Iliyasu Bobi, a Cave Canem Fellow 2025, is a poet, a multidisciplinary artist,
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Uncensored Snapshots (2025). Zaynab is a Literary Arts MFA candidate at Brown UniYHUVLWEHJLQQLQJLQ6SULQJ#=DLQDE%RELDQG,QVWDJUDP#]DQDEBLOLDVXBEREL
Runner-Up—Poetry
Meredith Raine Olsson is a current MFA candidate in poetry at Boston University. They
have previously been published in Midwest Quarterly.
Contributors
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(Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2015) and Underwater Explorers & Rescuers
(Ethical Seafood Research Publishing, 2025)—and two collections of poetry—Survived
By (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother Y &LQQDPRQ3UHVV +HUERRN
of writing prompts, Write Some Cool Sh!t, was published in November 2025 by Star Belt
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has been published in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Sunlight Press, Last Stanza Poetry
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Kate Falvey’s ZRUNKDVEHHQSXEOLVKHGLQPDQMRXUQDOVDQGDQWKRORJLHVLQDIXOOOHQJWK
collection, The Language of Little Girls 'DYLG5REHUW%RRNV DQGLQWZRFKDSERRNV
What the Sea Washes Up (Dancing Girl Press) and Morning Constitutional in Sunhat
and Bolero (Green Fuse Poetic Arts). She co-founded (with Monique Ferrell) and for ten
years edited the 2 Bridges Review, published through City Tech (City University of New
