General Submissions
General submissions are open May 1st through June 30th for CNF and Poetry. Graphic Essays are open year round.
Sweet does not accept AI generated writing or art at this time.
Winner
Judge's Comments:
“The Cry That Carries” weaves together sound and silence, a reminder that one cannot exist without the other. Here metaphor grows and grows, becomes the loud “cry” of the essay, that siren call of need, yet the silence of addiction echoes with haunting resolve. In such a short space, Kimberly Kearns’s essay reverberates outwards, shivers in a stilled body of water, a reminder that sometimes we don’t hear those things that tether us to the world.
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Winner
Judge's Comments:
“Scheherazade Finishes” brilliantly maps the classic storyteller’s endless yarn onto our own daily lives. Just as the doomed bride-to-be staves off her fate each day by inventing another cliffhanger, we too save ourselves with the stories we tell. Every day’s to-do list is a talisman against death as we try to make it to tomorrow, where love might live. This is a poem to know by heart, and recite on one of those long nights.
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