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
Thomas McGrath Award
Michaela Oosthuizen, Winner
Charles Henry, Runner-up
Casey Fuller, Runner-up
Poetry
J. Alcon
Heather Barry
Erin Breen
Conner Grenier
Leah Hanley
Charlotte Hatch
Maria Matsakis
Jacqueline Raatz
Kai Szulborski
Elise Unterseher
Meghan Bird
Cole Dennis
Jacqueline Raatz
Zamam Ulow
Andrew Youngblom
Kylee Danks
Casey Fuller
Charles Henry
Grant McMillan
Shilo Previti
ENG 234 Writing Prompts for "Growth"