Third Annual Pet Writing Contest
Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson
Managing Editor: Taryn White
Associate Editor: Leah Joseph
Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess and Jade Turner
Intern: Sam Manuel
David Waters, “Familiar,” ink and ochre
Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson
Letters from the Judges by Tara Flaherty Guy and Robin Michel
Writing Contest Winners
“Oliver” (FIRST PLACE) & “goldfish” by Jennifer Sepso
“When my hands touched the sun” (RUNNER-UP) by Scout Clancy Batreau
Fiction
“The Empty Veranda” by Swetha Amit
“Clues Blues” by Hunter Cooley
“The New Human” by Shelagh Hardrich
“Hope is the thing with feathers” by Mark LaMonda
“Of the Cat’s Deathly Inquiries” by Racquel Lee
“Dreams of an Old Cat” by Meg Pokrass
Poetry
“Rainbow Bridge, My Ass” by Deron Eckert
“Merlin” by Valerie Egar
“Missy’s Animal Rescue” by Bryn Gribben
“Porcupine, Thirty-One Years Later”, “Pocket Gopher, Thou Hath Eaten All My Daisies And So I Write This Poem To You”, & “The Mallard and Me” by Paige Milatz
“Junefly” by JD Del Rey
“Birdfeeding” by Tyler Robert Sheldon
Creative Nonfiction
“Wordy Bird” by Emerald Fox
“Critters” by Sharon Hoffman
“Ancestor, Mother, Goddess” by Anissa Lynne Johnson
“Kansas, anyway” by Rachele Salvini
Art Gallery
“Familiar” & “Studies of the Queen” by David Waters
David Waters is an Australian sculptor. His primary focus over the last 5 years has been works on paper using Acrylic, ink and collage.
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