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Courtney DuChene
Courtney DuChene is a poet, journalist, and essayist based in Philadelphia, PA. A current MFA-candidate in the Helen Zell Writers program, her work has been recognized and supported by the Hopwood Awards, the Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. Her poems, essays and interviews have been published or are forthcoming in Philadelphia Stories, Paper Dragon, Glass Mountain, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Millions.

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Fish-woman

Prize Entry

June 2023

Courtney DuChene

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June 2023

As I swam in the bathtub, they wondered what they had done to have a fish instead of a daughter. My father sat back...

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December 2016

Wildness of the Day

Orlando Reade

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December 2016

One day in late 2011, waiting outside Green Park station, my gaze was drawn to an unexpected sight. Earlier...

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September 2013

9/11 Emerging

Joseph McElroy

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September 2013

Others have it worse, have had, will always. ‘We,’ though, own the record now for largest building collapse.  ...

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Issue No. 17

Grace

Sophie Mackintosh

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Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato...

 

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