Cover art — Exhale, by Jessica Weber
Blurred Genre Contest Winners Spring 2017
First Place
Break Down
Eleanor Lane
Second Place
$500 Dollar Reward for Runaway Train Last Seen Heading North
Keith Donnell
Third Place
Not with a Bang
Katrina Prow
Fiction
Body Parts
Ha Ryn Ahn
Whiteout
Catherine Parnell
Next to Godliness
Nora Bonner
What Happened Beneath
Anna Whiteside
A House for Dahlia
Miki Arndt
Indoor/Outdoor
Meghan Lamb
Graphic Narrative
Armie
Lousie Aleksiejew
Nonfiction
On the Fifth Anniversary of My First Shot of Testosterone
Silas Hansen
penny jar
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Life of Loki
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
In the Vale of Tears
Corrina Carter
Poetry
I Tend to Think Forgiveness Looks the Way It Does in the Movies
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
in the tin, betrayers (I call them fish)
Emily O’Neill
Beast-Headed
Brian Clifton
Open
Jim Whiteside
Brute Strength
Emily Skaja
Dream Machine
Alexandra Watson
Girlhood
Lizzie Harris
Giant Squid as Emblematic Feminist
Jenny Molberg
Still Life with Starlings
Michael Jenkins
Welcome to the Jungle
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
Bigot Season
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
Quince
Laura Read
Ears
Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Mother in Translation (Reprise)
Steven Chung
Spell for Undoing a Life Sentence
Stevie Edwards
To Whoever Discovers the Remnants of Earth
Caylin Capra-Thomas
Art
Jim Morrison – The End
Hayley Marie Colston
I’m a Real Boy
Ian Kirkpatrick
Umbrellas
Clayton Hotze
High Above Cappadocia
Clayton Hotze
The White Stripes
Hayley Marie Colston
All the King’s Men
Ian Kirkpatrick
Thrifty Pills
Christine Coates
Farm Work
Clayton Hotze