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1st Place

Amanda Trout

2nd Place

Jesse Curran

3rd Place

Leah Scott-Kirby

honorable contributors

Susan Alkaitis, Sophie Amado, siddharth arora, Jasper Beck, Olga Bloemen, Miguel Camnitzer, David Capps, Panika M.C. Dillon, AR Dugan, Caroline Elise, Will Falk, Ashton Freeman, Brandi George, Dylan Harrington, Jeffrey-Michael Kane, Taria Karillion, Hannan Khan, Emily Kingery, J.I. Kleinberg, Rucker Manley, Patrick McEvoy & Randy Valiente, Morven Moeller, Stephanie Mohr, Mykyta Ryzhykh, Rachel Sacks, Sarah Sorensen, Justis WarD

Blood Tree

• Submissions for Issue 18 open on October 5, 2026.

• Blood Tree’s nominations for Best of the Net 2027 are out now, with more award and anthology noms coming soon.

• Blood Tree is participating in #LitMagWeek! Use code #LitMagWeek between September 29-October 3, 2026 to get a 15% discount in our onsite Store and on our Bonfire (where 15% of all proceeds go to charitable organizations in BTL’s hometown of New Mexico, USA). 

Book Reviews

• Fall 2026 — coming soon!

• Summer 2026 — “What Is the Sound of Burning?” a review of Will Falk’s When I Set the Sweetgrass Down by Gabriela Adamczyk

• Spring 2026 — “Disintegration and Durability” a review of Snežana Žabić’s Concrete Is More Beautiful Disfigured and Stained by Emily Hall

Author Interviews

• Summer 2026 — What Flowers May Come: A Conversation with Poet Sarah Durrand

• Fall 2025 — Fire Writing with Rachel Unger

• Summer 2025 — “The Hyphae” Musical Poetry with Tim Kahl