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.