February

2022

For

Preetika Rajgariah

the yoga mat is a site of invention & reclamation

Philadelphia Harpist

Elizabeth Steiner

is our artist of the month.

 

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Dilinna Nwabueze

WINS the Hennepin Review Inaugural Short Fiction Prize for her inspired story:

Yours Truly, Johnetta

“Johnetta P. Grant takes shit from nobody. If it wasn’t for watching her mother fall down a three-story staircase, pushed and dragged by a man who made them both call him daddy, she would have been a docile, take-me-as-I-am, I-like-it-like-that, fool.”

— Dilinna Nwabueze

Flash Fiction Prize

Lucy Zhang WINS the Hennepin Review Inaugural Flash Fiction Prize for:

Reflection Eater

“The mom I know has thin hair barely down to her ears, still growing back after chemotherapy. That’s why she eats so much tofu in sesame oil: sesame is good for your hair just as pork trotters are good for your skin, everyone knows that, she explained to me when dinner was pork trotter soup for the third day in a row.

How do I know I have good skin if I can’t look in the mirror? I asked one of those nights, poking the bone marrow out with a chopstick.”

— Lucy Zhang

Short Fiction Prize

Runner Up

Ifeanyi Awachie

A Dip of the Head, Not a Yes or a No

‘They studied their mother with interest as she began her own performance — “How is your friend Emeka doing?” she would ask every so often, in a carefully crafted casual tone. “How is your friend Nnamdi?”

She would ask slightly less often about Eli or Antoine.’

— Ifeanyi Awachie

Director Aisha Amin’s short film FRIDAY documents a Brooklyn mosque’s ongoing fight against gentrification.

  • Aisha Amin

    FILM

  • Ifeanyi Awachie

    FICTION

  • Dilinna Nwabueze

    FICTION

  • Preetika Rajgariah

    ART

  • Elizabeth Steiner

    MUSIC

  • Lucy Zhang

    FICTION