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Storm Cellar Vol. XI No. 1, fall ’23, nicknamed “Ars Notoria” → click for the delicious print and ebook editions. Contents links to PDF samples, [>>] for author site.

 

Storm Cellar volume 11 number 1 cover, detail from Examination (digitally altered photo, 2022) by Favour Adetona.

Contents

2023 FORCE MAJEURE FLASH CONTEST
1st Prize – Tessa Swackhammer – Et-Lingua-Ligatum
2nd Prize – Mike Yunxuan Li – Assurance 
2nd Prize – Julian Mithra – A History of Timber in the Valley of Lenape Wihittuck, later Nassau, Prince Hendrick’s, Charles, South River, then de la Warr anglicized Delaware
Honorable mention – Erica Sharlette – I Really Wasn’t Having the Time of My Life, but Apparently My Dance Card Has His Name on It
Honorable mention – Mike Itaya – “Call Me Up Anytime, Bro”: The Toxic Love of Megatron Decepticon 
Honorable mention – Jill Bronfman – Three Belts
Honorable mention – Sara Fetherolf – Games

FICTION
Liza Wieland – The Field Museum
Katherine Sinback – The Male Gaze Tries His Hand at a Woman’s Point of View

FLASH
Cameron Walker – Mr. October
Gabriella Navas – If There Has to Be an Ending, Let It Be a Quiet One
Kate Garklavs – Multitudes

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Julia Kooi Talen – On the Tongue

POETRY
Jan Ball – Milwaukee Visit
Zachary Lundgren – Hard Like Buzzcut
Nnadi Samuel – At the Mention of Grief: All Queer Confess
Jasmine Sawers – The Human Anus Can Stretch to Accommodate Two Full-Grown Raccoons and Probably a Nice Big Egg Too
Derek Otsuji – Visiting the Ruins of the Old Waialeʼe Industrial School for Boys 
Kristin Emanuel – Screen Time
Chrissy Martin – After Another Doctor Has Given Up
Grace Day – The Long Way
Jane Vogel – Dr. Doolittle and the Winter Visitor
Kayleigh Norgord – Wisconsin Effigy
Carolina Esses translated by Allison A. DeFreese – (sin titulo) No sucede nada en la noche que no sucede en el día. [Nothing happens at night that doesn’t happen by day.]

IMAGES
Debismita Dutta – Sunset
Yuko Kyutoku – Exclusion
fatima abby tall – Confinement
Paul Rabinowitz – Portrait with Folded Hands
Joseph Stern – Flesh

PLUS
Rejected: Girls, cover by Favour Adetona – Examination, back cover by Ami Watanabe – Vanishing Point

Storm Cellar 11.1 back cover image, Vanishing Point (2021) by Ami Watanabe (artist page at DiamondLifeAdventures.com).