Vancouver International Writers Festival Contest Winners

subTerrain‘s newest issue features the winners of the Vancouver International Writers Festival Contest:

Poetry
Winner: John Xiros Cooper for “O Season, O Cities”
Runner-up: Joanna Lilley for “Biology Lesson”

Fiction
Winner: Leah Bailly for “Spiritus Mundi”
Runner-up: Stephanie Gray for “Pure White Light of Heaven”

And I have to just share a few titles of other pieces in this issue that are going to make you want to read them: “The Memory Machine Dreams of Forgetfulness” (John Belshaw), “A Form of Grace Already Forgotten” (Philip Quinn), and “How It Happens that You’ve Fathered a Child and It Shouldn’t Matter to Me When I Find Out Via Social Media” (Emily Davidson).