Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Poetry

Broad Ripple Review

Fall 2025 Issue

Write Until You Pray

Angela Townsend

Winner of the 2025 Broad Ripple Review Prize in Nonfiction

I am not worried about praying, because I am not going to stop writing. I am not sensational at writing. I am terrible at praying. If I do not toddle through the Lord’s Prayer in my first wisp of the morning, I fail to have a proper conversation all day.

The Dress Department

L.B. Browne

Winner of the 2025 Broad Ripple Review Prize in Fiction

Giulia has only to rehang this evening gown, a column of mint chiffon, before she can close the register for the night. But the woman in sunglasses is still here, flicking through beaded sheaths and A-lines Giulia should have waited to straighten.

Little Eden

Margaret Dunn

Fiction

Outside it was buggy. In a plastic bag I carried window cleaner, oranges, and waxy cold cuts. I’d already split one of the navels and thumbed out a slice, the pith thickening under my nails. I was walking home from the grocer’s, peeling an orange and trying to step on each crack.

Green Jumper

Dorit d’Scarlett

Fiction

There was a week in late September when the house forgot it was mine.

The light turned sidelong and suspicious, slipping through the blinds like it wasn’t sure it belonged. The hallway stayed cool no matter how high I turned the heating.

Pearls in the Kitchen

Sofía Carbonell Realme

Nonfiction

Onscreen, the table is set. A white saucer sits on a tablecloth printed with oysters and olive martinis. In the center of the frame, a brown egg waits in a silver cup. Manicured fingers appear. They wield a small spoon shaped like a seashell. It taps the egg once, then bites.