Airea D. Matthews
Yale University Press (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
but I knew it was a winged thing, a puncture, a black and wicked door.
—from “Rebel Prelude”
My life and the lives of the people who have affected me were the impetus for
Recent Winners
Jules Fitz Gerald of southern Oregon won the 2024 “Stories Out of School” Flash Fiction Contest for “Orientation.” She received $1,000 and publication in A Public Space. Karen Russell judged. The annual award is given for a work of flash fiction abou
