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Nelle 7 | 2024

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, Editor

Illustration of a girl with abundant white hair with a trout trapped in the strands.
“Code 22VD-Premonition of Sorrow” by Chiharu Roach

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Three Sisters Awards:

  • Poetry: Simone Muench & Jackie K. White
  • Fiction: Beth Staples
  • Nonfiction: Lori D. Johnson

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Simone Muench & Jackie K. White

Rachel Richardson

Anna V. Ross

Beth Staples

Lauren Fath

Lori D. Johnson


Contents

Three Sisters Awards

Gauri Awasthi

  • Big brown boys

Daisy Bassen

  • Sonnet of abandoned sonnets I am afraid to continue writing
  • bringing down the flowers

Traci Brimhall

  • Genealogy
  • Speculative Elegy
  • Unknown Etiology

Nicole Callihan

  • My heart
  • Damage

Patricia Clark

  • Joan Mitchell Pulls Me Up

Denise Duhamel

  • When I Think of the Future
  • Closing Argument

Iris Jamahl Dunkle

  • Dear Body
  • Ghost Horse: Sanora Babb, 1913

Amy Fleury

  • Medical Mother's Pantoum
  • To a Mother, Long Bereaved

Melissa Ginsburg

  • before she lost the use of her hands
  • Live Oaks 24
  • camera obscura 25
  • Where there was nothing I created distance

Peggy Hammond

  • Treatment Plan

Sara Henning

  • Beech Tree (2020)
  • Tree Roots (July 1890)

Hyejung Kook

  • Charm Against Blighted Ovum

Amelie Langland

  • Morning Jubilee
  • Croquet With My Father Once My Mother Passes

Corinne Wohlford Mason

  • Crossing Over

Laura Minor

  • Cousin Pam & the Want Ads
  • Three Girls
  • Witch, Hag, Crone

Simone Muench & Jackie K. White

  • Elegy Lined by Christina Rossetti
  • Elegy for Falling
  • Cleave

Hari B Parisi

  • What Time Is

Alison Pelegrin

  • B-Side Nostalgia
  • Behold

Charlotte Pence

  • "Gift the Newly Married Couple with Advice on the Provided Note Cards"
  • Brushing My Daughter's Hair

Sara Pirkle

  • At What Point Does Regret End?

Greta Rasmus

  • Joy

Chelsea Rathburn

  • Loved Houses
  • My Home in Georgia
  • Mine! Mine! Mine!

Rachel Richardson

  • Girl Friend Poem: Nomi
  • Poem with Child Crying in the Background

Anna V. Q. Ross

  • All my poems used to end in sky
  • All my poems used to end in sky
  • All my poems used to end in sky
  • All my poems used to end in sky
  • All my poems used to end in sky

Nida Sophasarun

  • Blood Moon
  • Doldrums

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth

  • Little Red works her spelling words
  • Little Red's alternative namesake articles

Anne Dyer Stuart

  • Hunger

Kate Gale

  • My Rapist Is on the Plane

Lydia Gwyn

  • How We Broke Away
  • Praise the Eyes
  • Badge

Trudy Lewis

  • Nullite

Sharleen Mondal

  • That Kind of Girl

Beth Staples

  • Clitastrophe

Lily Swanson

  • Perfect Circle

S. E. White

  • Sedona

Lauren Fath

  • How to Write in the Second Person

Lori D. Johnson

  • Mama Say She Had a Dream

Shyla Ann Shehan

  • All the Life that Wants to Live
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