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| Issue 4: | July 2020 |
| Nonfiction: | 172 words |
By Clare MacQueen
Editor’s Choice Award: Issue 4
This issue’s ECA was selected from a list of ten finalists, which in turn were chosen from about 75 works that appear in MacQ-4—not counting the nine “Quink” stories and poems. Much gratitude (and a small cash prize of $100 USD) to Robert L. Dean, Jr. for this heart-wrenching ekphrastic poem:
⚡ Hands [with Gay Pasley’s photograph of Sister Mary Frances, protester]
My other finalist favorites are listed below in alpha order by last name of the author and/or artist:
⚡ Egress [micro-fiction] by Heather Bourbeau
⚡ Naming the Phenomenon [essay] by Jack Cooper [with art by MaRco Elliott]
⚡ Conquistadores [prose poem] by Laine Cunningham
⚡ Empty chair, bare tree [haiga], with photograph by Lucas Dumrauf and poem by Gary S. Rosin
⚡ A Song for Tara [tanka prose] by Claire Everett
⚡ Planting Geraniums on Geranium Street [prose poem] by Linda Nemec Foster
⚡ five-and-dime theology [haibun] by Mark Meyer
⚡ Fidelity [micro-fiction] by Barry Peters
⚡ Prayer [haibun] by Andrew Riutta
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