2024 Breakout! Writers Prize Winners: Marilyn Ramirez in prose, and Corey Baron in poetry
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2024 Breakout! Writers Prize Winners: Marilyn Ramirez in prose, and Corey Baron in poetry
“I have known these compelling yet repellent men. Haven’t you?”
“yesterday was funny because you were in a terrible mood but everything was beautiful.”
“Writing poetry has trained my eye and ear to look and listen to my day with deep attention.”
“Each translation has its own personality- and should have.”
“He said he made the cranes in order to make a wish, though he didn’t tell you what it was, only that it didn’t come true.”
“Shit. I feel like I’m whispering all of this when I should really be shouting.”
“I needed to know that others had endured what my family was going through, regardless of the outcome.”
“they thought a ballistic missile / would drop. First, the realization: / no shelter, no basements
“Not everyone can tolerate at the speed of light”
“the straight shot / the long shot / the parting shot / indiscriminate in the dark…”
2024 Fresh Voices Fellow: sara mariah montijo; Runner-ups: angel ash and Pegah Ouji
“…Nothing prospered across the land / Until she came out of her trance.”
“One thing I like about the Aliens series is the fact of its many, many, pregnant men.”
“I wonder what violence will / find me today. A deer’s teeth.”
“‘This land isn’t empty, it’s full of ghosts, you just can’t see them.' She says it flat, matter of fact, no judgement at all.”
