Behind the theme, "We are Highland Park," the city and park district have scheduled several Independence Day events along with its community walk on July 4.
The Iowa Review is excited to announce the winners and runners-up of our sixth Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, judged by Jerri Bell. The work of all winners and runners-up will be published in the Spring 2023 edition of the magazine. Thank you to all those who entered the contest, and thank you all for your service. Included below are the winners, Bell's comments on the winning work, and a brief bio about each writer. First Place:
I knew from the first time I read Amy Butcher's compelling Brevity essay, “Women These Days,” that I would follow her stunning prose wherever it took me next. Although the subject matter intimate partner violence against women is not light or casual reading, her gorgeous prose is magnetic, and the impact it has on the world is powerful.
Jameka Williams’s American Sex Tape™ is a triumph of a debut. Part cultural criticism, part self-investigation, Williams defies genre convention. Her poems burst onto the page with purpose, veracity, tenacity, and the self-assuredness of a long-established literary dynamo. I was humbled to parse questions from my own curiosity and unknowing, and I was grateful for Williams’s
Laura Joyce-Hubbard is a fiction editor at TriQuarterly and a Northwestern University MFA candidate. Her nonfiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming in The Sewanee Review, The Rumpus, Boulevard, Ninth Letter, Hippocampus, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Ragdale Foundation with a Janecek Fellowship and 2021 residency and by the National