Justin Hunt
Publications
Poetry Collection
Requiem in Wide-Open Minor
CavanKerry Press, early 2027 release
Individual Poems - Forthcoming
Grain, Southern Poetry Review
Is It the Wind, Cider Press Review
Of Winter and Fire, Poetry in Plain Sight
Individual Poems - Published
A Quarter North, The Lascaux Review, July 2025
Origin Story, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2025 (U.K.)
January, Cider Press Review, February 2025
Morning Notes, Last Day of August and It's Okay, Dad, SWING, Fall/Winter 2024
Storm, Early January, North American Review, Vol. 309, No. 2, Fall 2024
Out My Office Window, the Rustle of Rain, Cider Press Review, Vol. 26.4, October 2024
Outbound, Solstice Literary Magazine, Summer 2024
Take It, The Lascaux Review, August 2024
Elegy at Ebbtide and A Quarter North, Southern Poetry Review, Issue 62:1, 2024
Anna Belle, 1869-1919 and Childhood, San Pedro River Review, Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 2024
Threading Eons, Late July, Poetry in Plain Sight, July 2024
Origin Story, Robinson Jeffers Tor House, May 2024
The Ballast of Old Photos, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Volume X, 2024
Ghost Poker, Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, Issue 3, Spring 2024
On the Way Back to Town, South Dakota Review, Volume 58, Number 2, 2024
Visiting My Son in the 14th Year of His Death, Pedestal Magazine, Issue 93, March 2024
Instructions for Writing to My Son on The Tenth Anniversary of His Death, Harpur Palate,
Issue 22.2, Fall/Winter 2024
The Dark in Which I've Lately Dwelt, Live Canon Anthology (U.K.), 2023
Heimat, The MacGuffin, Vol. XXXIX, No. 2, Fall 2023
Of Winter and Fire, Four Way Review, Issue 28, Fall 2023
Mowing, Terrain.org, November 2023
Winter Predawn Rites, Ibbetson Street, Issue 53, Summer 2023
Early Spring, Cloudbank, Issue 17, 2023
This Theft of Water and Dust, of Stars, Cider Press Review, Volume 25.2, June 2023
Today We Hauled Your Toys from the Attic, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 239, May-Aug 2023
Argentina, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Vol. IX, 2023
The Way It Is Here, Barrow Street, Winter 2022-23
The Squatter, Prime Number Magazine, Issue 233, Jan-Apr 2023
Still Quitting Kansas, ASP Bulletin, Issue 5, January 2023
Walking at Dusk, Chautauqua, Issue 20.1, Winter 2022-23
If I Get Alzheimer's: Instructions for My Wife, South 85 Journal, Winter 2022
The Graves You Refuse to Fill, Puerto del Sol, Issue 57.2, Fall/Winter 2022
The Summer We Left, American Literary Review, Fall 2022
Toward the End of March, The Lascaux Review, October 2022
At the Missouri Pacific Depot, Where, in 1931, You Holed Up for Three Days and Drank,
Nimrod International Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2022
On the Medicine River, River Styx, Issue 105/106, Fall 2022
How Time Works on the Southern Plains, The Lascaux Review, 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, May 2017
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
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.
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
Awards
Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, 2025
Finalist, Wandering Aengus Book Award, 2025
Runner-Up, Cider Press Review Book Award, 2024
Finalist, 42 Miles Press Poetry Award, 2024
Short List, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, 2024
Honorable Mention, Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry, 2024
Third Prize, Narrative Poetry Contest, Naugatuck River Review, 2024
Editors' Pick, Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, Solstice Literary Magazine, 2024
Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2024
Finalist, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Poetry, 2024
Runner-Up, Cider Press Review Book Award, 2023
Finalist, John Ridland Poetry Prize, Gunpowder Press, 2023
1st Place, Live Canon International Poetry Competition (U.K.), 2023
Finalist, The Bill Hickok Humor Award for Poetry, I-70 Review, 2023
1st Runner-Up, Julia Peterkin Award for Poetry, South 85 Journal, 2022
Finalist, The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, The Lascaux Review, 2022
1st 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, Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize, 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
Finalist, Crosswinds Poetry Contest, 2020
Short List, Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition (Ireland), 2019/20
Finalist, Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland), 2019
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, Poet Laureate Award, North Carolina Poetry Society, 2017
Finalist, Dana Award in Poetry, 2016
Honorable Mention, Kakalak Poetry Prize, 2016
International Publication Prize, The Atlanta Review, 2015 and 2016
Finalist, Dogwood Literary Prize, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2015 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
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