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Moth

Yunong Guo

We are delighted to present Yunong Guo's story "Moth," winner of the David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. This prize is sponsored by anonymous donors who wish to honor the mentorship and support they and other students at the University of Iowa received from Emeritus Professor of English David Hamilton. In addition to publication online, Guo will will be awarded a $500 scholarship.

Issue 51/2 is Here, Featuring Cover Art by Tim Fielder!

TIR Staff

Our new issue, 51/2, is here, and it features a portfolio on poetic Black resiliency curated by the brilliant Tracie Morris and containing work by Black luminaries like Yona Harvey, Terrance Hayes, Douglas Kearney, Nathaniel Mackey, and Harryette Mullen. We want, especially, to draw your attention to the cover art by illustrator, animator, and Afrofuturist Tim Fielder. Fielder is known for his graphic novels, Matty’s Rocket, INFINITUM, and High John Conqueror. His work was recently showcased in a career retrospective exhibition, Black Metropolis: 30 Years of Afrofuturism, Comics, Music, Animation, Decapitated Chickens, Heroes, Villains, and Negroes, at The Hammonds House Museum. The image Fielder lent to us, in Morris's words, "harken[s] to the space for the breath....

Winners of the 2022 Iowa Review Awards

TIR Staff

The results are in: we are very excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Iowa Review Awards! The work of the winners will be published in our Winter 2022/2023 issue. Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest, and a huge thank you to our contest judges: Louisa Hall (fiction), Inara Verzemnieks (nonfiction), and Donika Kelly (poetry). Meet our winners:

FICTION

The Magic Kingdom (Ghazal)

TIR Staff

We are delighted to present Rebecca Jefferson's poem "The Magic Kingdom (Ghazal)," winner of the David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize. This prize is sponsored by anonymous donors who wish to honor the mentorship and support they and other students at the University of Iowa received from Emeritus Professor of English David Hamilton. In addition to publication online, Jefferson will be awarded a $500 scholarship.

Disneyland is one of the most popular places in the world to spread ashes.

The janitors speak in code, they stand vigil behind bushes for ashes.

You can stuff them into pill bottles or makeup cases or inside tampon tubing

lug your dead body through security; it cannot detect the ashes.

She has a hand in her purse rubbing the cap of the pill bottle she put her brother in.

Rajnesh Chakrapani Wins 2021 David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni

TIR Staff

We are delighted to announce that Rajnesh Chakrapani’s work has been selected as the winner of the 2021 David Hamilton Prize for Iowa Review Alumni. This year’s contest was for fiction. As winner, Chakrapani will receive a $1,000 prize, and his work will be published in the Spring 2022 issue of The Iowa Review. Many thanks to all who submitted their work to the prize.

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