Luck Girl; Benign City: Fiction by Herbert Chang
the trilingualist: Creative Nonfiction by devon chang
Charles Yu, Shawna Yang Ryan, Alvina Ling select 2024 Creative Writing Prize Winners
In Search of Rounder Moons: Poems by Eleanor Lin
Now accepting submissions: 2024 Betty L. Yu and Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes celebrate Taiwanese American student and adult writers
Betelnut, Soldier-Wolf 檳榔，兵狼: Fiction by YakuzaBaby
Grand Prize Winner, Middle School Category Betelnut, Soldier-Wolf: 檳榔，兵狼 Echo sat on the edge of the cracked leather seat, clipping a curler into her bangs. What the hell was she doing in this dingy-ass store, every surface plastered with slippery tiles in dire need of grouting, a flickering neon sign out front with the words 檳榔 五十年老店 and a drawing of a clawed hand faded into it. Though she could not read the words, she found the strange hand amusing. Her phone vibrated…
“One Order of Dan Bing, Please”: Creative Non-Fiction by Tristan Tang
Grand Prize Winner, High School Category 老闆, 我要一份蛋餅! Summers in Taiwan are brutal. I mean, think of the thrashing Da’an heat, cooking you alive like a fried egg from a breakfast shop. Or picture an army of mosquitoes, all nosediving towards you with their suckers out, ready to unleash an unrelenting week of itchiness. Buzz. The irritating sound made me sigh. A mosquito flew in circles around my ear, taunting me for not killing it before it’d injected its…
Intergenerational Language Transmission: Poems by Gazelle Chen
Atlantic Menhaden: Fiction by Nicholas Servedio
Honorable Mention, Adult Category The first time I saw all the dead fish was in early June. It was a rainy day, and my dad and I were walking along the Hudson River Greenway. The path was sandwiched between the flow of the river and the flow of traffic, and every so often a car or truck would pass by in the rightmost lane and spray muddy water and gravel onto the path. My dad was stressed out and walking quickly. He had recently been made chair of the Chemistry department, and while the new title…