poetry comics

Announcing… the GS 9.2 Roster!

Gigantic Sequins 9.2 debuts this summer, and we can’t wait. Meanwhile, here are all the writers & artists whose fantastic work will be appearing within its print pages! WHILE YOU’RE AT IT, check out our online store for a SNEAK PREVIEW of the 9.2 front cover (art by Fumi Mini Nakamura, design by meg willing)… and your first opportunity to pre-order this phenomenal issue. A full spread of the cover should go up on our official website within the next month or so.

Dana Alsamsam

Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf

Meriwether Clarke

Kelsey Gray

Brett Elizabeth Jenkins

Brianna Johnson

Mitchell King

Grant Kittrell

Annalise Mabe

Kristine Langley Mahler

Fumi Mini Nakamura

Simone Person

Natalie Sharp

Sarah Thompson

Alison Thumel

M. A. Vizsolyi

plus, a book review of The Barbarous Century by Leah Umansky (Eyewear Press, March 2018) by Kim Jacobs-Beck

Results of the (occasional) 2018 Winter Contests!

FLASH CNF RESULTS

“31 – 4 – 25” by Doug Paul Case | WINNER, Selected by Paul Lisicky

“Essay in Which I’ve Borrowed my Boyfriend’s T-Shirt” by Doug Paul Case | Finalist

“Duck Duck” by Brooke Larson | Finalist

“Grief Studies” by Natalie Sharp| Finalist

“Landing” by Matt Stebbins | Finalist

POETRY COMICS FINALISTS

“Lightless” by Annalise Mabe | WINNER, Selected by Gabrielle Bates

“im dehydrated” by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf | Finalist

“my laptop is my lover” by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf | Finalist

“when im like, really depressed i have a lot of sex” by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf | Finalist

“Dominion” by Mercer Hanau| Finalist

Thanks to the judges and all who entered! Special thanks, too, to Matthew Mahaney, whose cross-stitches are a part of the prize for each winner. A full list of all the writers & artists we’ll be publishing in GS 9.2, debuting this summer, along with these winning works, will be out soon.

Winter Series Contests in Poetry Comics and Flash Non-fiction: Results!

Flash Non-fiction

WINNER, selected by Mike Doughty
“Appropriation” by Ingrid Jendrzejewski

FINALISTS

Laura Citino “Several Folk Taxonomies”

Paul Rodgers “Magenemite”

Doug Paul Case “Indiana, Newly Spring”

Kayla Haas “Powerlines”

Melissa Moorer “Dog Lover”

Meg Reid “Summer Boat”

Sarah Glady “Volta”

Poetry Comics

WINNER, selected by Bianca Stone
Gabrielle Bates “As When Gone Wildabouting”

FINALISTS

Kaveh Akbar & Nikki Gardner “Mostly Hypothetical”

Patrick Williams “Redactions”

Kaveh Akbar & Nikki Gardner “Human Teeth.”

Paul Siegell “Catherine Quirk”

Peter Friedman “Pillow Carnival”

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Lea Graber “Fuzz”

Raychelle Duazo “What Holds You To Us”

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Prizes for our 2 winners include swag from Flying Groundhog and powerHouse Books in addition to publication and a cash prize. Stay tuned for more information on our upcoming summer contests in flash fiction & poetry!