Mardi Gras Microfiction Contest, Feb ’26

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Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson

Managing Editor: Taryn White

Associate Editor: Leah Joseph

Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess and Jade Turner

Interns: Sam Manuel

Jay Edge, “Lovers,” pastel on paper

Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson

Writing Contest Winner

“Bienvenue” by Michelle Rose

Microfiction

“The Ghost of Proust in Mom’s Room” by Mileva Anastasiadou

“The Forest of Me” by Garima Chhikara

“House Shoe” by Scott Garson

“Hairbrush” by Amanda Hadlock

“Bathtub Divorce-Tears Gin” by Matthew Jakubowski

“My Prerogative” by Leah Mueller

“Stolen Luck” by Julia Rajagopalan

“The Iteration of Matrices” by Cheryl Snell

“Labor” by Lucy Zhang

Jay Edge is a North Carolina artist who concentrates on modes of drawing. Figure and landscape become motifs to connect/resolve internal experience against external subject. Inspired by the Southern shift of landscape, themes of preservation versus excavation push into technique. His work has evolved over decades while studying at Appalachian, Penland, the studios of various artists, with deep interest in the history of art-making. He lives in Wilmington with his family, stacks of books, and Nola Beans the Dog. 

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