WAG’s 15h annual journal, Bacopa Literary Review 2024, features works by writers from around the globe.
Contest Prizewinners
FICTION:
AWARD: “Museum of Lota Smith” by Wilson R. M. Taylor
HONORABLE MENTION: “Waking the Legend” by K. S. Dearsley
FLASH FICTION
AWARD: “Cowgirl’s Calling” by Cameron Edrich
HONORABLE MENTION: “Revolver Rita First Look” by Mandira Pattnaik
CREATIVE NONFICTION
AWARD: “Reenchanted” by Angela Townsend
HONORABLE MENTION: “Bones Within and Without: An Ode to the Wild Dead” by Marisca Pichette
FORMAL POETRY
AWARD: “Nothing Else Matters” by Sherre Vernon
HONORABLE MENTION: “Let Your Shadows Lengthen on the Sundials” by Andrew Alexander Mobbs
FREE VERSE POETRY
AWARD: “Things that Remind Me of Birds” by Desiree Remick
HONORABLE MENTION: “Sunrise in Future Goma without Roaming Bullets” by Eniola Arowolo
VISUAL POETRY
AWARD: “The Liberator” by Rebecca Loggia
HONORABLE MENTION: “The Breakup” by C. Maris Bounds
Contributors
FICTION
S. Dearsley
John Kaufmann
Wilson R. M. Taylor
FLASH FICTION
Ruth Demree
Cameron Edrich
Mandira Pattnaik
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Joanna Baxter
Evan Lloyd Johnson
Rita Maria Martinez
Marisca Pichette
Amy Pontius
Sarah Salvia
Angela Townsend
FREE VERSE POETRY
Carol Alexander
Eniola Arowolo
Khushi Bajaj
Stefan Balan
Dustin Brown
Aimee R. Cervenka
Elise Chadwick
Livia Claypool
Hardy Coleman
Jin Cordaro
Julie Cyr
Nwodo Divine
Chinụa Ezenwa-Ọhaeto
Ayòdéjì Israel
Amanda Faye Martin
Michael Milburn
Syan Mohiuddin
Lisa Mullenneaux
Chiwenite Onyekwelu
Xiaoqiu Qiu
Landen Raszick
Desiree Remick
Timothy Robbins
Abdulrazaq Salihu
Nnadi Samuel
Harshita Srivastava
Jennifer Fair Stewart
Bethany Tap
Laura Frances Williams
Robert Witmer
Abby Yucht
FORMAL POETRY
Jennifer Campbell
Adam Haver
Bethany Jarmul
Leslie Kenna
Bénédicte Kusendila
Richard Laurberg
Adam R. Levine
Gino Loper
Stefan Malizia
Fran Markover
James Scannell McCormick
Mary Mercier
Andrew Alexander Mobbs
Jimmy Neenan
Laura Oliver
Christine Pennylegion
Percy Rosello
Eleanore Tisch
Sherre Vernon
VISUAL POETRY
Sam BerrettiMaris Bounds
Merridawn Duckler
Ri Ekl
Petros Koustenis
Rebecca Loggia
Sullivan Summer
Sarah Yost
Editorial Staff of 2024 Bacopa:
Editor in Chief J.N. Fishhawk is a poet and freelance writer. A founding co-host of the Civic Media Center’s open mic Thursday Night Poetry Jam, he is also the author of three chapbooks and Postcards from the Darklands, ekphrastic poems accompanying artwork by artist Jorge Ibanez. He is co-creating the ongoing World of Whim Sea children’s book series with illustrator Johnny Rocket Ibanez at fishhawkandrocket.com.
Managing Editor T. Walters is a poet, writer, and musician living among the orange trees. Their work appears in Nymeria Publishing’s Descendants of Medusa. Books, baking bread, and pulling needles through thread make up a significant portion of their life. They live to connect, create, and marvel at nature’s many wonders.
Poetry Co-Editor J. Nishida holds a BA, MA, and EdS, as well as a TESOL graduate certificate. She is active in the local poetry community as an organizer, teacher, editor, and performer, and is a co-host of the Thursday Night Poetry Jam at the Civic Media Center. She was Bacopa 2021’s Creative Nonfiction Editor and will lead a poetry workshop for the 2024 Bard & Broadside North Central Florida Poetry Festival.
Fiction and Flash Fiction Editor Alec Kissoondyal is an undergraduate at the University of Florida pursuing a bachelor’s degree in English. His fiction has been published in Zephyr Literary Journal, Bacopa Literary Review, The Bookends Review, Roadrunner Review, Let’s Stab Caesar! Magazine, Retro Press Magazine, Drunk Monkeys Magazine, The Centifictionist, and The Los Angeles Review. He has a forthcoming short story to be released in Cornice Magazine.
Poetry Co-Editor Oliver Keyhani is a visual and performance artist, poet, and writer. He is a member of the Gainesville Fine Arts Association and a founding member of the Carousel of Souls Curiosities Circus Troupe (CoSCCT). His short experimental poem-play “Children of Gaia” has been produced at the Tank Theater in NYC. His hybrid visual-poetry works the “dada manuscripts”: thé avec dada and the book of dada dandies have received international acclaim, with forthcoming releases planned.
Creative Nonfiction Editor Stephanie Seguin studied English Literature and French at the University of Florida. She has published humor, short fiction, and personal memoir and spent over fifteen years as a freelance editor and teacher of languages.
Social Media Manager Mary Ansell, an outreach librarian by day, lives and creates in Gainesville, Florida. Her writing has appeared in The Inflectionist Review, Whale Road Review, and Pithead Chapel. Find her literature recommendations on Instagram @once.and.future.reads.
Editor Emeritus Mary Bast‘s creative nonfiction, poetry, and flash memoir have appeared in a number of print and online journals, and she’s author, co-author, or contributor to eight professional books from her career as a psychologist, leadership consultant, and Enneagram coach. Bast is also a visual artist.