Nelle 8 | 2025
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, Editor

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Three Sisters Awards:
- Poetry: Alyx Chandler
- Fiction: Itoro Bassey
- Nonfiction: Shira Dentz
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Alyx Chandler
Itoro Bassey
Shira Dentz
Espérance Uwayirege Taylor & Laura Secord
Claire Cella
Erica Dawson
Susan Finch
Contents
Three Sisters Awards
Poetry
Carol Alexander
- Dendroclimatology
Amy Baskin
- Self-Portrait as Vibrator
Carroll Beauvais
- Way Back When the Arsonist Still Wrote Love Songs
Claire Cella
- I want my heart to be
- Aegis
Alyx Chandler
- Safe to Eat
Erica Dawson
- The thing is (when you're manic)
- Love poem before learning akathisia is a thing
- Reasonable Accommodations
Kristina Erny
- I Became Friendlier
Amalie Flynn
- My Mammogram in 49 Parts
Jana-Lee Germaine
- Breakfast: Beach
Carolyn Guinzio
- Watching Starlink from an Intex Pool
- Rabbit
Beth Gylys
- Disproportionate Breakup Poem
- Fat Self: The Breakup That Wouldn't
- Dear Friends As Anti-Breakup
- Magical Thinking Breakup Poem
Cecelia Hagen
- The Dark Alarms
Judith Harris
- Lullaby, Twenty Five Years Later
- Plastic Rain Bonnet
- An Early Walk in November
Jen Karetnick
- At My Uncle's Funeral, As Custom Dictates,
- A Transfer Between Symbiots
Sally Rosen Kindred
- Nocturne with Raincoat and Ash
Julia Lisella
- Psalm for My Grown Daughter's Instagram Story
Sandy Longhorn
- How to Fall in Love with a Downed Oak
- After the Fall
Emily Patterson
- How to Wait (at the Fertility Clinic)
Catherine Esposito Prescott
- Rockstar Mom
- Good Friday
Kimberly Ann Priest
- Crazy, Twisted Things
Elizabeth Rees
- The Twins Want Snow for Dessert
Jess Smith
- Madrid
- Cocked
Meghan Sterling
- Motherhood is a Commitment to Failure
Zoë Ryder White
- Failed Novel: The Ocean Liner
- Failed Novel: Florence's Score
- Failed Novel: The Embrace
Morissa Young
- Grumpy Girl Goes to the Gun Club
Fiction
Itoro Bassey
- How To Give Up Being a Good African Daughter
Katrina Denza
- Burner
Susan Finch
- Clawfoot Tub People
Jess Guinivan
- Limited Release
Sarah Pazur
- Dead Lips
Nonfiction
Yael Valencia Aldana
- 2 Ravens, 2 Eagles, 2 Hornets, 5 Turkey Vultures, 1 Falcon, and 1Erik and 1 Zora
Shira Dentz
- classical Latin pax
Espérance Uwayirege Taylor & Laura Secord
- The World Ends: Scenes from a Genocide