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Issue 3, Spring 2021

Mission

Along the Red River of the North, a series of floodwalls and levees protect the communities of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks from the annual floods that come with the spring thaw. But residents of our community know that the floodwalls aren’t completely sealed off. There are open gates, and there are the bridges that span the river and unite friends and families, two towns, and two states.

Here at Floodwall, we want to do something similar. We want to open gates and make connections. We want to bring students at the University of North Dakota together. To that end, we publish creative work in many genres from undergraduate and graduate students at the University of North Dakota. Fiction, poetry, essays, and art—if it’s work created by an undergraduate or grad student in our #UNDProud community, we want to read it and consider it for our pages. 

Read this issue’s message from the editors and check out the masthead for this issue’s team of editors and readers. Click here to download a complete, searchable PDF edition of this issue, with a linked table of contents. 

John Little Fiction Scholarship 

Keely McLean, Winner 
once upon a time in new york city

Parker Stenseth, Runner-up
Past manifesto

Fiction

J. Alcon
You Must be Judith

Meghan Bird
Greer mclaren

Brenda Kezar
Justice For All

Derek McFarland
A Gamble of Trust

Jona Pedersen
An Entomologist's Love Letter to the Universe

Kai Szulborski
Mycelium I

Elise Unterseher
A Period of Self-Reflection

Nonfiction 

Seth Thoelke

the outer wilds and manufactured wilderness

Thomas McGrath Award

Michaela Oosthuizen, Winner

Something sad in the music

Charles Henry, Runner-up

Silly little word

My Old Friend

Casey Fuller, Runner-up

Poetry

J. Alcon

18 Years

Heather Barry

Tinkerers

Erin Breen

Lovers Departing

Conner Grenier

Garden in the mire

Leah Hanley

Sanctuary

Charlotte Hatch

they're singing again

Maria Matsakis

lying i tell

Jacqueline Raatz

Abandoned

Kai Szulborski

invar

Elise Unterseher

apologist

Meghan Bird

darkvine

the stars in her eyes

Cole Dennis

together under the stars

Frozen grass

Jacqueline Raatz

springtime orange 

tea and mre

Zamam Ulow

fear

the storm

two face

Andrew Youngblom

conflict and hybrid of plant and ghost

i saw a turkey on my way to work

Kylee Danks

Synergy

Unaccompanied 02

Casey Fuller

why you stopped writing poems

Charles Henry

sidewalk flower

Grant McMillan

Water for flowers

seneci0 radicans

Shilo Previti

I am so impressed

ENG 234 Writing Prompts for "Growth"

 

 

 

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