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Nicky Beer's beautiful essay "Migration" recounts her path through place and mental illness with birds as guideposts. terrain.org/2026/nonfictio… #essay #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #birds #place #depression #mentalillness #migration #love #marriage #relocation

In her flash fiction piece "Snake Stories," Carolyn Dasher slides seven delicious serpentine memories our way. Read or listen now. terrain.org/2026/fiction/s… #fiction #flashfiction #shortstory #flash #snakes #memory #children #rural #snake #vernacular

Take a walk with Michael Garrigan in his lovely poem "Bird Song According to Stone Swimmer," with audio. terrain.org/2026/poetry/mi… #poem #poetry #poet #walking #nature #ecopoetry #mountains #ferns #forest #woods #sound #listening #love

In this episode, Kareem James Abu-Zeid, translator of the poems of Najwan Darwish in the new book No One Will Know You Tomorrow, talks with Terrain.org reviews editor Renata Golden. terrain.org/2026/currents/… #podcast #conversation #war

Three stunning poems by Hayden Park, with audio, are winners of the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest, selected by Blas Falconer. terrain.org/2026/poetry/ha… #poems #poetry #poet #contest #contestwinner #winner

Australian writer Jay McKenzie's "Sumbisori" is winner of the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Fiction, selected by Samantha Dunn. terrain.org/2026/fiction/s… #fiction #story #shortstory #winner #contestwinner #sea #diving #seaturtle #friendship #korea #southkorea

Three lovely poems by Laura Long, with audio, finalists in the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Poetry: "Grounded," "Mud Sparrows," and "On the old turnpike, thinking about what we make in this world." terrain.org/2026/poetry/la… #poems #poetry #poet

Meghan Keaney Anderson's "(Un)usual Mortality Event," a finalist in Terrain.org's 16th Annual Contest in Nonfiction, explores climate change through a mother's lens and a beached whale. terrain.org/2026/nonfictio… #essay #nonfiction #climatechange #beachedwhale #child

Three beautiful, haunting poems by Daniel Lassell, with audio: "Frame," "Ritter Park Cabin," and "Downward Rooms." And if you're headed to #AWP26, join Daniel for a reading and signing with Terrain.org. terrain.org/2026/poetry/da… #poem #poetry #poet

Ana C.H. Silva's beautiful story of place, relationship, and distance, "Into the A Horizon," is a finalist in the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Fiction. terrain.org/2026/fiction/i… #story #fiction #farming #spouse

Four gorgeous poems by Anne Haven McDonnell, with audio, from her new book, Singing Under Snow, winner of the Wheelbarrow Prize. And if you'll be at #AWP26 don't miss Annie's reading and signing with Terrain.org. terrain.org/2026/poetry/an… #poems #poetry #poet

In "Sleep or Something Like It," M. H. Perry braids a prescribed burn on their farm with her the challenges of her childhood. It's our first Terrain.org Nonfiction Contest finalist this year. terrain.org/2026/nonfictio… #nonfiction #prescribedburn #farm #memory #sleep

Harrison F. Dietzman's wildland firefighter story "Cowboys" is our first finalist in the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Fiction. terrain.org/2026/fiction/c… #story #fiction #fire #firefighters #danger #driving

Phyllis Klein's beautiful, powerful Letter to America poem is "Mistee St. Clair wants to give you, one of her favorite poets, a hug," with audio. terrain.org/2026/poetry/le… #poetry #poem #poet #lettertoamerica

Two beautiful poems by Mistee St. Clair, with audio, finalists in the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Poetry: "Last Dream of Earth" and "Self-Repair". terrain.org/2026/poetry/mi… #poems #poetry #poet

The Freshwater Trust president Joe Whitworth pens an urgent but hopeful guest editorial: "Built on Dry Ground: The Water Reckoning in the West." terrain.org/2026/currents/… #editorial #water #west #americanwest #rivers #drought

Three gorgeous poems by Amy Miller, with audio, kick off the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Poetry finalists. terrain.org/2026/poetry/am… #poems #poetry #poet #trees #insects #birds #night #sky #spiders

Alan Sincic's delightful story "A Piece of Work" is a semifinalist in the Terrain.org 16th Annual Contest in Fiction, and not to be missed. terrain.org/2026/fiction/a… #story #fiction #shortstory #dogs

In "Why We Tell Stories," Rob Carney weaves prose and poetry in a beautiful new addition to his "Old Roads, New Stories" column. terrain.org/2026/old-roads… #editorial #storytelling #stories #witches #neighbors #prose #poetry

In Susan Cohen's Letter to America prose poem "Messenger from the Sea-God's Palace," a Doomsday fish washes up on a California beach. What message does it bring? terrain.org/2026/poetry/le… #poem #lettertoamerica