Open for submissions now, the Breakout! Prize honors two undergraduate or graduate student writers with a $1000 cash prize in poetry and prose. Our 2025 judges are Victoria Chang and Hilary Leichter.
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Open for submissions now, the Breakout! Prize honors two undergraduate or graduate student writers with a $1000 cash prize in poetry and prose. Our 2025 judges are Victoria Chang and Hilary Leichter.
“under house lights you move / through hallways backstage like it’s a sin / to inhabit your own skin”
“I am a God fearing man / depending on who asks / But between you and me / God does not exist”
“Born with so much blackness, I spent my life adjusting / puffy eyes to a new light, missing her darkness”
“they thought a ballistic missile / would drop. First, the realization: / no shelter, no basements
“the straight shot / the long shot / the parting shot / indiscriminate in the dark…”
“Recently, the doctor has been looking / at my ovaries. I mean: she shoved / a camera inside of me to get a glimpse”
“You are / distracted, so / the spirit / cannot summon / you at / midnight hunger”