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What we leave behind us, and how we face the new. Art and cover by Paul Katz vividly embody the impulse to recast materials and signs. Stories by Stephen Dixon, Victoria Lancelotta, and Shahriar Mandanipour look at how we preserve and renew, while reflective essays by Emilia Phillips, Laura Gill, and Michael Stein resonate with poems of loss and remembrance by Gail Mazur, Cate Lycurgus, Rick Bursky and many others.

Our 58th Issue features flash nonfiction from Lance Larsen, Pam Durban, Jill Talbot, Amy Wright, Scott Loring Sanders, Joe Oestreich, Kathryn Nuernberger, Bridget Apfeld, Jennifer Sinor, Nicole Cyrus, Allison Gruber, Marcia Aldrich, Phyllis Reilly, Jamila Osman, and Amy Butcher, alongside brilliant artwork by John Gallaher. Read and enjoy. Plus, in our Craft section Wendy Staley Colbert looks at how memoirists can manage the ethical problem of writing about others, Gwendolyn Edwards discusses how writers experiment with speculation and imagination while still upholding the reader-writer contract, and Jennifer Gravely reminds us that all essays will ultimately end in white space.

Found inside are the winners of The Fiddlehead’s 27th annual literary contest! Matthew Hollett-won the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem and Kate Osana Simonian received the Short Fiction Prize. The honourable mentions went to Conyer Clayton and Conor Mc Donnell (poetry) and Samantha Jade Macpherson and Kate Timmers (short fiction). You’ll also find book reviews, along with new short fiction and poetry from Brian Bartlett, Marvin Bell, Kara du Plessis, Evelyn Lau, Steve Lautermilch, Cathy Stonehouse, Kate Sutherland, Thomas Wharton, and Laura Zacharin and others. The cover artwork is from Sarah Jones’s “Evening Windows on Germain #2.”

Featuring the 2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize winners, plus debut prose by Sara Read, Andrew De Silva, and Rose Smith. Also featuring the work of F.J. Bergmann, Jonny Diamond, Sharon F. Doorasamy, Rick Hilles, Meghann Plunkett, Tamara Titus, Denis Wong, and Stefanie Wortman.

"Unmolested" by Michael Lowenthal. In the wake of a sex-abuse scandal at an all-boys’ summer camp, an openly gay alum returns as a “guest-star counselor.” But then, he finds himself not only a role model but also the object of an adolescent camper’s crush.