Featured Work
This is your space to showcase any of your art (visual or writing), no matter the theme. We accept submissions year-round, and you can send them to plaidmagwt@winchesterthurston.org.
Below are the contest winners for this year's magazine REVERIE!
Liebestraum by Lilia Koll
Poetry
“My fingers gently resting on the Steinway,
the notes drift in
and suddenly, I’m carried somewhere else.
Somewhere where your name
echoes every note;
Somewhere where loving you
needs no courage.
Yet the music that ripples does not sound like Liszt,
nor does the ivory feel hard beneath my fingertips–
as if the keys themselves remember you.
In my thoughts of us,
I hear a symphony—
one only my heart can hear. [...]”​​
Namji: Walking down Memory Lane by Hyunsoo Kim
Prose
“Whenever I tell my friends that my grandparents have a “farm”, they envision rolling hills
of wheat crop and barns full of speckled chicken eggs. In actuality, it’s more like a vast, very
well-kept garden complete with an office seemingly stuck in the 90s and an abandoned factory
warehouse. It used to more closely resemble a farm in the past, with a plentiful amount of barn
animals. There are no more chickens or horses left, but a farm, nonetheless. [...]”
Self-Portrait by Mila Rao
Drawing
Echoes of a Daydream by Chengxi Tao
Painting
One foot on the platform, the other on the train by Joya Nasr
Photography
The Living Garden by
Bridget Salipante
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3D Art
Finding Light by Leila Young
Digital Art
Red, White, and Blue by Amiel Robinson
Mixed Media
Jeremy by Nico Gonzalez-Rychener
Multimedia