Featured Piece
For this volume of the Paper Dragon, we are featuring the winning piece from a competition at a local elementary school. The winner of the competition is Gabe Gustafson with his piece Footsteps of a Legend.
Fiction
Caravaggio and Me
A fiction piece by M.C. Schmidt.
Cellmate
A fiction piece by Theo Villepontoux.
Ciao
A fiction piece by Maureen Mancini Amaturo.
Failure to Speak
A fiction piece by Klarissa Conner.
Lost Pennies
A fiction piece by Whitney Weisenberg.
Numb
A fiction piece by El Jayne.
Speak Now
A fiction piece by Rowan MacDonald.
The Beam
A fiction piece by Russell James.
The Dark After
A fiction piece by Cathy Ulrich.
The Funambulist
A fiction piece by Jessica Arzola Grissom.
Thirty
A fiction piece by Chad Lutz.
Time and Change
A fiction piece by Susan Knox.
Non-Fiction
The Trip We Forgot
A non-fiction piece by John Tuason.
The High Diving Board
A non-fiction piece by Wendy Mages.
Azalea Festival
A non-fiction piece by Virginia Laurie.
Glass
A non-fiction piece by EL Jayne.
The Record Keeper
A non-fiction piece by James Maskell.
Currently Listening To
A non-fiction piece by Miranda Campbell.
Poetry
Self-Portrait as a Charles Simic Poem
A poetry piece by Dante Di Stefano.
Iced Coffee
A poetry piece by Erin Jamieson.
After the Echo
A poetry piece by Mark Laskowski.
And Then It Burned Down
A poetry piece by Patrick Meeds.
Accessories
A poetry piece by Meredith Davidson.
Mrs. Brightside
A poetry piece by Lena Zycinsky.
Close of the Day
A poetry piece by Colleen Alles.
The Doe
A poetry piece by Erika Seshadri.
Unspontaneous Dulcet
A poetry piece by Kenneth Pobo.
White Crest Beach, Wellfleet, Night Sky
A poetry piece by Julia Lisella.
Skinny Door to the Moon
A poetry piece by Sara Ries Dziekonski.
Beached
A poetry piece by Eliana Franklin.
Stitched Lives
A poetry piece by Prajakta Paranjpe.
Boihood
A poetry piece by Cameron Atlas Chiovitti.
Stigmata
A poetry piece by Deirdre McCarthy.
I Gifted Pomegranate Syrup to the Family
A poetry piece by Jennifer Rodrigues.
Translation
A poetry piece by Danielle Hanson.
So Many Colors
A poetry piece by Brian Yapko.
The Train and the River
A poetry piece by George McDermott.
Generations
A poetry piece by Rachel Finkle.
Rats
A poetry piece by Chelsea Logan.
Blues City Bus
A poetry piece by Stacie Eirich.
Morgenstund til kveld
A poetry piece by Paige Dixon.
Volume 5 Masthead
Managing Editors-in-Chief
Adam Zahn & Nicholette A. Guy
Fiction Editor
Bianca Cuie
Non-fiction Editor
Ashley Bhasin
Poetry Editors
Kyra Cruz & Rylee Cella
Art Director
Nicholette A. Guy
Social Media Managers
Kyra Cruz & Regina Guarino
Submittable Managers
Andy Snover & Bianca Cuie
Website Director
Nicholette A. Guy
Publisher
Drexel Publishing Group