Number 100
fall 2021
Featuring the 2021 Crazyhorse prize winners in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, Mary Clark, Jung Hae Chae, and Mark Wagenaar; a debut story from Nancy Nguyen; fiction from Nicole VanderLinden, Weston Cutter, and Timothy Mullaney; an essay from A.C. Zhang; and poems from Lisa Low, Michael Prior, Mary Kaiser, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, among others.
Featured In This Issue
Ode to the Backyard Bumblebee
PoetryAt Your Convenience
FictionAnother (Damn) Crow Poem
PoetryHole(s)
Essayswhen a black girl-child sees death for the first time
PoetryHit the Wall
FictionA Boy Ago Visits His Shadow
PoetryIn My Afterlife, I Am Brightest
PoetryCrazyshorts!
A Short-Short Fiction Contest
2021 Winner
Vanishing Act
2020 Winner
Spinning Stories
2017 Winner
Sweater
2017 Runner Up
The Buried Man
2017 Runner Up
Girl Doll
2017 Runner Up
Bozeman, Montana
2016 Winner
A Rearing Pact
2015 Winner
Foods of the Bible
2015 Runner Up
The Exterminator
2015 Runner Up
Sick Day
2015 Runner Up
Matt’s Comics
Crazyhorse online
Oliver de la Paz: Navigating Unspoken Worlds
News, ReadingBy Joshua Garcia (Poetry ’21) and Dakota Reed (Poetry ’20) On Thursday, September 26th, visiting poet Oliver de…
Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Jung Hae Chae
Interviews, News, PrizesJung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer. She is winner of the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and the 2019…
Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Mary Clark
Interviews, News, PrizesMary Clark grew up in Baltimore and after many years of living in Massachusetts, returned to her roots…
Joy Is the Garden: A Review of Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Lace & Pyrite
Book Reviews, NewsZ.L. Nickels Lace & Pyrite 19 pp. Get Fresh Books. $10.00 The most neglected book of garden poems…
Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Dawn D’Aries
Interviews, News, PrizesDawn D’Aries was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. “The Super’s Wife” represents…
Catching Up with 2020 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winner Daniel Schonning
Interviews, News, PrizesDaniel Schonning is the poetry winner of the 2020 Crazyhorse Prizes contest. His poems have appeared or are…
Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Finalist Bridget Lyons
Interviews, News, PrizesBridget A. Lyons is a writer and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. A graduate of Harvard University,…
Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Jack Ortiz
Interviews, News, PrizesJack Ortiz received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the August Derleth Prize. “They’re…
Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Finalist Mi Jin Kim
Interviews, News, PrizesMi Jin Kim is a Los Angeles native who currently lives and writes in Seoul, South Korea. She…
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December 3rd, 2020, 7:00pm
CofC English Department Presents: Genevieve Hudson
Worldwide
March 26th, 2020, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Christine Sneed
Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall
February 27th, 2020, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Stephanie Burt & Carmen Giménez Smith
Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall
October 17th, 2019, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Sabrina Orah Mark
Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Ct
September 26th, 2019, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Oliver de la Paz
Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall
March 7th, 2019, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Jen Julian
Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall
February 21st, 2019, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Jennifer Chang
Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall
November 15th, 2018, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Venita Blackburn
EHHP, Alumni Center
October 25th, 2018, 7:00pm
Crazyhorse Reading Series: Mary Biddinger
Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall
April 12th, 2018, 7:00pm