Issue 1

Spring, 2026

The Aperture Award

Deluge

winner

by Kate Choi

by Sambhu Ramachandran

honorable mention

Poetry

by Kate Choi

by Sambhu Ramachandran

by Gerard Sarnat

Heart of the Loneliness Epidemic

by Angela Thorne

by Sheila E. Murphy

Instructions for Crossings

by Julian Liu

If the poems I wrote surface

by Mervyn Seivwright

Birth Certificate in a Rusted Drawer

Soft Life Prayer

by Shogo Olalekan Uthman

Jo’s Confession to Meg

Aditha A

by Purbasha Roy

Her Yardstick Was Shortened

by John RC Potter

Blue Dream or Head Trip

Emily Alston-Follansbee

A Jazz Musician (she/her) at the Feminist Art Opening

by Bett Butler

Visual Art

by Alison Noyes

by Charlie Zhong

At the Foothill

by Sonali Roy

by Nasta Martyn

Renaissance De Cecco

Viviana De Cecco

Prose

by Kelly Murashige

by Nick Young

Three Lives of Butter

by Sarp Sozdinler

by Jack Barrie

The Other Shadow

Huina Zheng

1969: The Stonewall Inn

by DC Diamondopolous

by Erin Jamieson

This Is How You Keep Him

by Damieka Thomas