Justin Hunt, Writer
Publications
Prose:
"Cold War Prairie," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring 2021
"Of Roller Skates, Hogs and My Father," South Dakota Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, Fall 2018
“Uncle John,” HeartWood Literary Magazine, Issue 5, Summer 2018
"Showman's Pasture," DASH Journal, Vol. 11, Spring 2018
“Last Haircut with Fred Owens,” Bacopa Literary Review, Fall 2015
Poetry - Forthcoming:
"The Summer We Left," American Literary Review
"Toward the End of March," The Lascaux Prize Anthology
"At the Missouri Pacific Depot, Where, in 1931, You Holed Up for Three Days and Drank,"
Nimrod International Journal
"The Graves You Refuse to Fill," Puerto del Sol
"The Way It Is Here," Barrow Street
"On the Medicine River," River Styx
"Early Spring," Cloudbank
"Walking at Dusk," Chautauqua
Poetry - Published
"How Time Works on the Southern Plains," The Lascaux Review Online, September 2022
"Trek," San Pedro River Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall 2022
"As I Remember It, Mom," Naugatuck River Review, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2022
"When I Noticed, at Last," The Baltimore Review, Spring 2022
"Remember," The Journal, Vol. 45.2, Spring 2022
"Sundown Cigar," Carve Magazine, Spring 2022
"Why I Flinch at the Thought of Daylight Squandered," North Carolina Literary Review Online,
Winter 2022
"You've Turned into My Backyard Table, Daddy," Sugar House Review, No. 23, Winter 2021
"Slags of Cloud, a Cold Wind" and "Night After Night, the Flicker of TVs from Neighbors'
Windows," Crab Creek Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2, 2021
"The Art of Saving," Chautauqua, Issue 19.1, 2021
"4 AM, at the Bay Window We Never Had," Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. VII, Fall 2021
"The Fire God," The New York Quarterly, Issue 67.3, October 2021
"After Reading Charles Wright," Terrain.org, October 2021
"Night Walk," Midwest Review, Issue 9, 2021
"Upon Learning of Your Death, I Peer into the Wrong End of a Telescope," San Pedro River Review,
Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall 2021
"If I Could Trace Again the Honed, Flat-End Blade," Solstice Literary Magazine, Summer 2021
"Twister Dream" and "Tare Weight," Ibbetson Street, Issue 49, Summer 2021
"Prayer from a 1952 Chevy Suburban," Cider Press Review, Vol. 23, Issue 2, June 2021
"My Massage Therapist Says She Hears Trains Inside Me," Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. VI, 2021
"The Only Holy," Bellingham Review, Issue 82, Spring 2021
"The Winter of Your Flu" and "Sundown at Huntington," Arts & Letters, Issue 42, Spring 2021
"Every Day, I Think of Those Years," Five Points, Vol. 20, No. 2, Winter 2020
"Waty Watson, Railroad Engineer," Bridport Prize Anthology (U.K.) , 2020
"June, 1969," Vietnam War Poetry, August 2020
"Last Steam Locomotive," Ibbetson Street, Issue 45, Summer 2020
"Driving," Chautauqua, Issue 17, 2020
"We Were Seventeen," Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. V, 2020
"Cotton Rats," Southword (Ireland), March 2020
"Knife and Salt," New Ohio Review, Issue 27, Spring 2020
"Afternoon on Slate Creek," Ibbetson Street, Issue 45, Summer 2019
"While Dreaming of Our Old House, I Speak to My Wife," The Florida Review, Vol. 43, Number 1, 2019
"Fall Fest Parade, Some Years Before My Mother's Death," Strokestown Poetry Anthology (Ireland),
2019
"At the Rainbach" and "In Vienna's Stadtpark," Arts & Letters, Issue 38, Spring 2019
"Terry: 1950 - 1970," The New Guard, Vol. VII, 2018
"Auguri," DASH Journal, Vol. 11, Spring 2018
"Quitting Kansas," Oberon Poetry Magazine, Fifteenth Annual Issue, 2017
"Aurora Borealis," Live Canon Anthology (U.K.), 2017
“Somewhere South of Coldwater”, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation, May 2017
“Burial at Prairie Sea,” The Atlanta Review, Fall 2016 Poetry Issue, Vol. XXIII, No. 1
“Dr. Lilly’s Clowns” and “Detox,” Kakalak 2016, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
“On Nights Like This,” Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, Vol 15: 2016
“Toward the End of May” and “November,” Iodine Poetry Journal, Vol. XVII: 2016
“Gasoline and Liquor,” Pinesong, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2016
“Reclamation,” Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. I, 2016
“My Mother, My Father”, The Freshwater Review, Spring 2015, Vol. 19 and online
at WinningWriters.com, April 2016
“Nocturne,” Spoon River Poetry Review, Winter 2015, Vol. 40.2
“Oblivion,” The Atlanta Review, Fall 2015 Poetry Issue, Vol. XXII, No. 1
“Two West and a Half South,” Comstock Review, Fall 2015
“Autumn, Huntington Beach,” Bacopa Literary Review, Fall 2015
“Who Looks for You,” Kakalak 2015, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
“Of Light and Time,” Kansas City Voices, September 2015, Vol. 13
“Cold Night in March,” Pooled Ink, Northern Colorado Writers, 2014
“Baseball,” Kakalak 2014, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
“Half-Light,” Pinesong, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2013
“On the Phone with Kansas,” What Matters, Jacar Press, 2013
“Requiem in Wide Open Minor,” Kakalak 2013, Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
Awards
Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2022
First Prize in Poetry, Porter Fleming Literary Competition, 2021
Finalist, Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry, New Letters, 2021
Finalist, Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, 2021
Editors' Pick, Solstice Literary Magazine, 2021
Finalist, James Applewhite Poetry Prize, North Carolina Literary Review, 2021
Finalist, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2021
2nd Place, International Poetry Contest, River Styx, 2020
Long List, National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society (U.K.), 2020
Highly Commended, Bridport Prize for Poetry (U.K.), 2020
2nd Place, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2020
Finalist, NORward Prize for Poetry, New Ohio Review, 2020
Finalist, Great Midwest Poetry Contest, Midwest Review, 2020
Honorable Mention, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2020
Short List, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2019/20
Short List, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2019
Finalist, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Narrative Nonfiction Book
Category, 2018
Finalist, Rumi Prize for Poetry, Arts & Letters, 2018
Commendation, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2017/18
Finalist, Nonfiction Award, American Literary Review, 2017
Finalist, Knightville Poetry Contest, The New Guard, 2017
Honorable Mention, Oberon Poetry Prize, 2017
Long List, Live Canon 2017 International Poetry Prize (U.K.)
International Merit Award, The Atlanta Review, 2017
Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2017
Long List, Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition (U.K.), 2017
Finalist, 2017 Poet Laureate Award, North Carolina Poetry Society
Finalist, Dana Award in Poetry, 2016
Honorable Mention, Kakalak Poetry Prize, 2016
International Publication Prizes, The Atlanta Review, 2015 and 2016
Finalist, 2016 Dogwood Literary Prize
Honorable Mention, 2016 Mary Ruffin Poole American Heritage Award, North Carolina Poetry Society
Honorable Mention, 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest (WinningWriters.com)
Honorable Mention, 6th Annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Contest, 2015
1st Runner Up, Editors’ Prize, Spoon River Poetry Review, 2015
1st Place, Whispering Prairie Press Poetry Prize, 2015
2nd Prize, Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award, Comstock Review, 2015
3rd Place, Whispering Prairie Press Essay Award, 2015
2nd Place, Bacopa Poetry Contest, Bacopa Literary Review, 2015
3rd Place, Thomas H. McDill Award, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2012