The Savage Stars Caitlyn Cacciatore
off in the distance someone is learning to make fire. it is a solitary engagement; a silhouette bent under the weight of modern ineptitude. I
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What we do
Fox Paw Literary publishes fresh new writing on our blog. We welcome submissions of fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction and poetry.
We want to read your writing!
As writers ourselves, we know the feeling of waiting months to learn the fate of a story! While we can’t publish every submission, we do promise to read each one.
Congratulations to
our winners!
ACHIEVEMENTS
Creative Nonfiction
Nancy Cook, ‘Freestyle’
Fiction
Lizzie Lee, ‘The Peregrine’
Poetry
Caitlin Cacciatore, ‘Savage Stars’
Congratulations to
our winners!
ACHIEVEMENTS
Creative Nonfiction
Nancy Cook, ‘Freestyle’
Fiction
Lizzie Lee, ‘The Peregrine’
Poetry
Caitlin Cacciatore, ‘Savage Stars’
Read the Winning Entries!
Freestyle Nancy Cook
The gate to the pool area creaks unnaturally loud as I pass through. It is early morning, early August. The sky has not yet reached
The Peregrine Lizzie Lee
The gate to the pool area creaks unnaturally loud as I pass through. It is early morning, early August. The sky has not yet reached
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction Shortlist
Casey Canright,
‘The Skin’
Carrie Lynn Hawthorne,
‘When the Frost Came Early’
Tara Thiel,
‘Waiting’
Morgan Christie,
‘Stampeding Elephants’
Kelly Proctor,
‘the answer comes in a fogged mirror’
Nancy Cook,
‘Freestyle’
Elizabeth Ramirez,
‘little apocalypses’
Elaine Erola,
‘Under Foot’
Layla Sabourian,
‘Amoo Khosroo’
Fiction
Fiction Longlist
Craig Barnstrom,
‘CAPTCHA’
Voyo Gabrilo,
‘No Man’s Land’
Lizzie Lee,
‘The Peregrine’
Melissa Ridley Elmes,
‘Keeping Promises’
Steve Bates,
‘The Intolerable Mr. M’
David Kern,
‘Laps’
Thomas Misuraca,
‘Boarders’
Bryan Starchman,
‘Hell Hath no Fury’
Bridgette Walden Boothe,
‘Composting’
Merle Kinney,
‘42DD’
Lance Nixon,
‘Alien’
Hyten Davidson,
‘Drowsy’
Miodrag Kojadinovic,
‘My Name is Aditya’
Gabriel Parker,
‘The Red-Tailed Hawk’
Fiction Shortlist
Steve Bates,
‘The Intolerable Mr. M’
Lizzie Lee,
‘The Peregrine’
Melissa Ridley Elmes,
‘Keeping Promises’
Kurankyi Dadson,
‘Winter Sun’
Carolyn Huizinga Mills,
‘Shampoo’
Bryan Starchman,
‘Hell Hath No Fury’
Voyo Gabrilo,
‘No Man’s Land’
Thomas Misuraca,
‘Boarders’
Merle Kinney,
‘42DD’
Gabriel Parker,
‘The Red-Tailed Hawk’
Poetry
Poetry Longlist
Animashaun Ameen,
‘Gay Grief’
Caitlin Cacciatore,
‘Ode to Summer’
Riley Danvers,
‘Death Howler’
Kelly Hegi,
‘Emancipation’
Emilia Kamadulski,
‘Common Poorwill’
Harps McLean,
‘blouses and outskirts’
Adrian Potter,
‘Nightfall’
Ron Bernas,
‘An Early Snow’
Caitlin Cacciatore,
‘Savage Stars’
Martins Deep,
‘so long, you’ve saved your kiss for a gravestone’
Shurouq Ibrahim,
‘Heredity’
Kristy Kwok,
‘On Valleys’
Amber Moss,
‘Poseidon’
Juheon Rhee,
‘Childhood’
Ron Bernas,
‘Peonies’
Beth Copeland,
‘Self-Portrait as Mountain
Sarah Guy,
‘I Didn’t Keep Your Presents’
Anastasia Jill,
‘Lantern’
John Leonard,
‘Psalm’
Cassady O’Reilly-Hahn,
‘Bacardi in the Lenin Closet’
Myles Taylor,
‘Anti-Elegy for all the trans
people who are still alive’
Maggie Bowyer,
‘Cavities’
Allison Cundiff,
‘Fig Tree’
Sophie Hall,
‘Spaghetti-Odes’
Anastasia Jill,
‘Thong’
Jody Mason,
‘Drywall’
DL Pearlman,
‘The Dragonfly who
Crossed the Chesapeake
Bay’
Kimberly Thornton,
‘Pancakes from Scratch’
Poetry Shortlist
Animashaun Ameen,
‘Gay Grief’
Allison Cundiff,
‘Fig Tree’
Kristy Kwok,
‘On Valleys’
Ron Bernas,
‘Peonies’
Martins Deep,
‘so long, you’ve saved
your kiss for a gravestone’
Amber Moss,
‘Poseidon’
Caitlin Cacciatore,
‘Ode to Summer’
Shurouq Ibrahim,
‘Heredity’
Juheon Rhee,
‘Childhood’
Caitlin Cacciatore
‘Savage Stars’
Anastasia Jill,
‘Lantern’
What does ‘literary’ mean anyway?
September 28, 2021
As a girl, I read books like the Bobbsey Twins and Lad: A Dog. In fifth grade we had the Scholastic Book Club and that’s
Contest update
September 28, 2021
Our writing contest is just past the midpoint and there are 96 entries! I am reading them all, but also will be announcing two well-qualified
Let the reading begin!
September 28, 2021
Sometime last night our contest reached our limit of 300 entries! Four editors/judges are now reading them. Results will be announced later this month.
