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| Issue 9: | 15 August 2021 |
By Clare MacQueen
Editor’s Choice Award: Issue 9
The ECA was selected from a list of 10 finalists, which in turn were chosen from a total of 100 works that appear in MacQ-9. A world of thanks to everyone who sent me so many fine pieces to consider!
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Hugs of commiseration (plus a small cash prize of $100 USD) to
Robbi Nester for this heart-rending poem on a topical theme:
⚡ Hot
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And my other finalist selections, listed in alpha order by last name of contributor:
⚡ The Sculptor and His Muse, by Rodin [poem, ekphrastic] by Cynthia Anderson
⚡ Finnegan’s (Fiancée Goes McArthur Park on His Birthday) Cake [flash fiction] by John Brantingham
⚡ The Seeds at Svalbard [prose poem] by Cherie Hunter Day
⚡ Napalm Girl and the Boy Next Door [flash fiction] by Robert L. Dean, Jr.
⚡ Clean [flash fiction] by Lorette C. Luzajic
⚡ EROTIC: New & Selected by Alexis Rhone Fancher [book review] by Bill Mohr
⚡ Platform Heels [poem, nonce form, rhyming] by Diane Lee Moomey
⚡ Through the Looking Glass [haibun story] by Rich Youmans
⚡ Woodcuts [poem, lineated, ekphrastic] by Jonathan Yungkans
Links to previous Editor’s Choice Awards:
| ECA: Issue 8 | ECA: Issue 4 |
| ECA: Issue 7 | ECA: Issue 3 |
| ECA: Issue 6 | ECA: Issue 2 |
| ECA: Issue 5 | ECA: Issue 1 |
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