

Welcome to Ascent!
- New Essays
- Fin ~ Caroline Sutton
- Doin’ Time ~ Jennifer Jordán Schaller
- Life in the Balance ~ Jim Dameron
- How It Begins ~ J. Malcolm Garcia
- The Woods Are Burning ~ Bernard Quetchenbach
- Buckethead ~ B.J. Hollars
- Shorties ~ Mark Dostert
- Hiding ~ Sandell Morse
- The Little Bear ~ Jennifer Sinor
- Excellence ~ Thanhha Lai
- New Fiction
- The Selfishness of Bravery ~ Gary Fincke
- Pisuwin ~ Robert Froese
- Curb Appeal ~ Tom Noyes
- Bird Sanctuary ~ Gabriel Welsch
- Human Hands ~ Jason M. Jones
- Scold ~ Arthur Diamond
- Kyrie ~ Michael Reid Busk
- Comfort ~ Jennifer Acker
- The Mushroom Lady ~ Sarah Gauch
- Rue ~ Jill Birdsall
- New Poetry
- Threshold ~ Theresa D. Smith
- Bury Me in Wicker ~ Pepper Trail
- All Things Under The Sun ~ Paul Allen
- Singing ~ Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
- I Don’t Know How She Learned of Sadness ~ Paul Dickey
- The Lingerhut ~ Donald Morrill
- Signs ~ Bethany Bowman
- Blues in the Key of March ~ Jim Daniels
- Landscape ~ Robin Chapman
- Haying ~ Sharon Chmielarz




