Lake Effect
Volume 28
2024
Fiction
- Nicholas Rys, Tiny Violences
- Robert Long Foreman, Coming to You Live from the Road Complaints Office
- Wyatt Bonikowski, Summer of the Missing
- Victoria Campbell, The Happiness Index
- Julianne Chapple, Readymade
- Diane Williams, Dead Nettle, Lilyleek, and Toothwort
- Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Florencio Florencio
Poetry
- Weston Morrow, It opens
- Mark Sanders, Poem in Which There Is No Horse
- Philip Terman, A Million Angels Falling
- Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick, You grant life & intelligence to a corpse of your choice, allowing it to answer a question
- Jeanne Wagner, Orcas, Resurrection Bay, Alaska
- William Cordeiro, Funhouse
- Elton Glaser, Lying Low in the Empire
- Elton Glaser, In a Time of Plague
- Lynn Domina, Decomposed
- Jeff Mock, The Goddess of the Darkest Hour of the Longest Night
- Kelly Gray, Amethyst Deceiver
- George Kalamaras, Lester Young at a Table in Birdland in 1952, Warming Up His Horn
- Tony Gardner Cantando il Tempo di Flagello, (Song in a Time of Plague)
- Michael Sofranko, The Milltown Trestle
- Hollie Dugas, The Cricket Vat
- Jane Zwart, Little Brown Jobs
- Christopher Buckley, Prodigal
- Christopher Buckley, Hereafter—On Miramar Beach
- Jonathan Greenhause, Blessed with an ear for poetry,
- Eric Pankey, Inventions of Farewell
Literary Nonfiction
- Shuly Cawood, I Have Made Promises I May Not Keep
- Brandon Lewis, Who’s Afraid of Piano Work?
- Angela Townsend, Not the Only One
- Sarah Anne Strickley, Scar Face
- Andrew Bertaina, On Liars
- Abby Frucht, Otter and Flotsam, Glove, Gill, and Goose Feather, Tonic and Air